Work experience guy, what can I get him to do?

[patmahe]

Hi all,

I arrived into work to be told I'm going to have a (school) student in for a couple of days to get a bit of work experience. He's got a good basic knowledge but thats it.

I'm an IT administrator and I'm looking for suggestions as to what IT related tasks I can get him to do that will occupy his time and save me some hassle. I don't want anything cruel or unusual, just something so he's not bored, but also with little potential for disaster.

Cheers

[Badgerboy]

Copy of Visio, and get him to plot a flowchart of the hardware in the comms room. Give him a good idea of how the network infrastructure works.

Or coil every spare CAT5e cable in the server room if he messes with anything.

[crossle]

Send him out to the tool shop to buy some elbow grease and a left-handed screwdriver?

Send him to the Post Office to get a renewal form for an artist's licence?

[jimmydee2007]

Get him to pick the fluff out of your belly button!

[celticpilgrim]

Tartan paint
Glass hammer
Skirting board ladder

[ascayman]

send him out to pick up the bacon sarnies and a cup of tea.

[The Riddler]

Glass hammer, or, get him to do the butty run and ask him to order something particularly random they won't have. (clit sandwich)

[bishbash]

Get him to make tea, and tidy the comms room. Then get him checking disk space on servers/desktops, also get him to go through event logs on the servers and see if there's anything he could tackle.

[plasticpig]

If he finishes with the flowchart get him to map where all the points go in the building and to make sure all the patch leads are of the correct colour.

[JRM]

Making tea is probably your best bet

But the first reply about Visio is a good idea, or give him a labelling machine and get him to label all the cabinets in e comms room.

Can he tag along with some of the support guys for a morning?

[Raffles]

Join PH and see how many posts he can do in the week?

[Republik]

celticpilgrim said:

Tartan paint
Glass hammer
Skirting board ladder

Sky hooks.

Send him to the shop and get him to ask for a long weight (wait).

[Taita]

+1 on the labelling and documentation.

[smack]

crossle said:

Send him out to the tool shop to buy some elbow grease and a left-handed screwdriver?

Send him to the Post Office to get a renewal form for an artist's licence?

Then back down to the tool shop for a long weight.

Edited by smack on Wednesday 12th November 12:03

[anonymous-user]

Oh the joy, we once sent one of these to Tandy(remember them?) for a fallopian tube, fair play to the guys in there they said they were fresh out but try Durrants (another component shop)!! He came back some time later having been sent all around the town

[BoRED S2upid]

Why not just tell him how it really is in IT, playing online games surfing PH's, you don't have to make stuff up for him to do.

[sa_20v]

Be nice to the kid, or he'll show you up!

When I went on work experience, I landed up cleaning components in a planes APU, pumping fuel from one wing of an A320 to the other, watching the mechanics test emergency chutes and whether they had enough force to knock over scaffolding, and sat in a van on the tarmac at Luton with an APU on test in the back. Great fun!

[pimpin gimp]

Republik said:

celticpilgrim said:

Tartan paint
Glass hammer
Skirting board ladder

Sky hooks.

Send him to the shop and get him to ask for a long weight (wait) .

Seriosuly, you really had to include the explanation? You don't think much of the PH residents do you?!

[Plotloss]

Got a fire safe on site with mag tapes in it?

Get him defurgling them, for a start.

Over time the magnetic particles fall to the bottom of the tape (a process known as Furgling) so the tapes need turning 180 degrees every week or so to stop this happening.

Then when he's done with that, send him off to PC World to get two bags of parity bits, one odd, one even.

[DeadMeat_UK]

Raffles said:

Join PH and see how many posts he can do in the week?

Proper preparation for the grow up world of work.