Reaped What They Sowed

[Dragon_Dreamer]

We have a family who comes in frequently to both my jobs. Both parents are losers, honestly. They both are "medical" professionals who write prescriptions for each other or for themselves, and the husband tends to come in stoned, while his wife is usually drunk. Plus they let their dog run loose in the store.

The mother tends to come into my other job (where we fix computers), and whine about how her "darling, precious, oh so intelligent" son is always putting "violent rape" pictures on her computer, which she lets him use. She likes to ask us for suggestions on how to keep him from doing so, but shoots down every single one. I always want to tell her to actually parent him. She can't put a password or parental controls on, because "he can get past those in a heartbeat," and she "doesn't want to limit him." And asking him to stop, and telling him it "hurts her feelings" doesn't work. Keep in mind this kid is 13.

Well, he got a little of what he deserved last week. According to the lead tech, they brought in the laptop for a virus removal. It seems her "precious darling" wanted to "see how viruses worked." So he downloaded about 15-20 to a folder on his desktop named "Virus Samples."

The viruses did work, alright. Made the computer completely unusable, and nothing was backed up. The tech took pleasure in doing a system restore. Bye-bye data! :wave:

I'm sure he didn't learn his lesson, and he'll probably try on another network. At least the school (my alma mater, no less) already knows to keep an eye on him after he tried to download the rape pics to one of their computers, so that's one avenue closed to him. (Someone reported him after he bragged about doing that in public.) My guess is he was going to try to infect someone's computer. He deserved the backfiring.



The topic is plural, because we had a second case this week. This kid, however, the tech actually took some pity on. Same age, far different attitude. He said he was a moderator on a forum, and they'd been having trouble with a spammer who was continually posting a link from various IPs.

He volunteered to download the file and see what it did. Keep in mind that his only computer was his mom's laptop. While he did scan it with McAfee, he admitted that it wasn't up to date. He also said that he didn't really know what he was doing when it came to computers. The file did turn out to be infected with a virus. He *begged* us not to tell his mom the truth.

We charged him the diagnostic fee, and the tech confirmed the boot-sector virus' presence. Last I heard, he was to be given the choice of having us fix it or letting his friend restore it after we saved his data. I haven't found out yet which he chose. At least HE seems to have learned his lesson.

And this is what keeps us techs employed.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

.____. So... yikes. All I can see for the first kid's future is bad. I hope I'm wrong.

[Hawaiian Eskimo]

Why is that first kid even allowed to touch a computer? That's just scary.

[Dragon_Dreamer]

BCK: That's the general consensus around town, really.

[MadMike]

She can't put a password or parental controls on, because "he can get past those in a heartbeat," and she "doesn't want to limit him." And asking him to stop, and telling him it "hurts her feelings" doesn't work.

"We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas!"

[earl colby pottinger]

Get rid of the computer. I love my machines but I can live without them and so should he.

And as for anyone else's computer he tries to use this way, press charges.

[Dragon_Dreamer]

Small update: Now he's claiming that we remotely hacked his computer and put the virii on there. :roll:

[Geek King]

Small update: Now he's claiming that we remotely hacked his computer and put the virii on there. :roll:

Oh, I love those claims. I had a user suggest I must have given her password out to someone, because there's no other way a virus could hae gotten on her computer. :rolleyes:

The IT version of the the guy in the emergancy room with a gunshot would claiming he got it while standing on the corner minding his own business (SOCMOB) while reading his grandmother's bible when some dude just walked up and shot him in the bum. :lol:

[Shalom]

The IT version of the the guy in the emergancy room with a gunshot would claiming he got it while standing on the corner minding his own business (SOCMOB) while reading his grandmother's bible when some dude just walked up and shot him in the bum. :lol:

You've been reading Nurse K (http://crasspollination.blogspot.com/) again, haven't you? :roll:

[Dragon_Dreamer]

Apparently she reads CS. Hi! :D

[Geek King]

You've been reading Nurse K (http://crasspollination.blogspot.com/) again, haven't you? :roll:

Nah, the Things I Learned From My Patients (http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=257985)** thread over on the Student Doctor Network forum. :D



**Warning: This thread contains significant amounts of medical lingo, descriptions of horrific trauma, and doctors outside of their "bedside manners". It is also several thousand entries long, and may eat your free time for several days.

[Rapscallion]

Nurse K has a great writing style.

Been browsing with great interest.

Rapscallion

[Rapscallion]

I have a suspicion that Nurse K may be related to a poster I saw on usenet on ADFT many years ago (if you have to ask what that stands for, I can't tell you, and I only ever lurked) called NurzRatchett. She had some delightfully whacky tales and a similar writing style.

Of course, it could be just that many nurses end up in similar straits with a similar attitude to life and the mortality all around.

Rapscallion

[Shalom]

I have a suspicion that Nurse K may be related to a poster I saw on usenet on ADFT many years ago

Now you've got me curious. I've been on usenet since 1994, and that nym sounds a bit familiar. So I started looking through my list of newsgroups.

(At first I misread that as ADTF, and the only froup that matches that regex is alt.destroy.the.flonk, which hasn't seen a non-spam post since 2005. No, I never subscribed to that, I never even heard of it until tonight.)

ADFT doesn't match anything currently active either, though. I did find one group that judging by the name may have been a legit froup once, but now has nothing but spam for as far back as Giganews has headers. I won't mention the name because:
(if you have to ask what that stands for, I can't tell you, and I only ever lurked)
Why, is it something invite-only, like ASR?

Come to think of it, maybe I recognize the nym from a blog called http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/ ; maybe that's who you remember? Or it could just be someone else who liked Kesey.

<sfx: poking Google Groups> O. . . kay, so that's what you're talking about. . . :D Geez, I haven't read A-T in probably fourteen years. (Though I'm not quite sure where the "DF" comes in; some subgroup that Giganews doesn't carry?)

[Rapscallion]

Probably talking about the same place. The D is dot, and the F is probably obvious by now.

Rapscallion

[NurseK]

I keep getting people reading the blog from this forum which is amusing, I must say. Hello everyone! I'm not Nurse Ratched, by the way. On medical stuff, I'm always 'Nurse K'.

[Rapscallion]

Celebrity in our midst! Begin to genuflect!

Rapscallion

[XCashier]

Why is that first kid even allowed to touch a computer? That's just scary.
Because his parents are too stupid and lazy to parent him properly. Newsflash, Mommie Dearest, "no" is not a Bad Word!
"We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas!"
Pretty much, yes.

[tropicsgoddess]

The first kid is looking at a pretty dim future. Unfortunately, stupidity is job security for tech support.

[EricKei]

They both are "medical" professionals who write prescriptions for each other or for themselves,Is that even legal? :eek:

And asking him to stop, and telling him it "hurts her feelings" doesn't work. I seriously doubt that this charming young man gives a rodent's posterior about her feelings.
The viruses did work, alright. Made the computer completely unusable, and nothing was backed up. The tech took pleasure in doing a system restore. Bye-bye data! :wave: When I worked for a comp repair place back in the Windows 9x days, we had a regular customer - older gent - who would bring back his virus-ridden comp EVERY MONTH with the same issue, namely, so many viruses that his comp would barely boot. Naturally, he had no clue why this kept happening, as it had nothing whatsoever to do with all of the porn he kept downloading (daily) from various "free" sites :rolleyes: (You know you have a bad habit when even my boss stopped bothering to *ahem* examine his porn folder for data that needed to be backed up before wiping the system, after awhile). We actually made a w98 restore CD specifically for his system just so we could get it done faster >_>

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NurseK - :welcome: to :cs: ! We have :brainbleach: on tap and someone should be along with cookies in just a bit ^_^

[Shalom]

Is that even legal? :eek:


Depends where you are. In this state, prescribers are allowed to write prescriptions for themselves IF they keep a chart on themselves in their office. I would guess that family members are covered by the same provision.

(It's still the pharmacist's responsibility to determine whether the prescription is medically warranted, just like any other script, and refusing to fill it if not. Telling a doctor you won't fill his own prescription isn't all that easy to do; expect him to threaten not to send any patients to you. As the said patients are likely to all be junkies anyway, given the doctor's prescribing habits, this is probably a good thing.)

[Dragon_Dreamer]

I still deal with these folks almost daily, and I've taken to hiding from the mother. She has decided that *I* am the person to complain to about EVERYTHING, from Staples "not fixing the problem" to "but my doggy goes everywhere with me, she needs me!" to "the pharmacists are so unfair!" to "the school is so unfair, they suspended my darling!"

I am not a manager. She knows this. 9.9

T-minus 18 days until I leave the pharmacy for COLLEGE! :D (Gotta keep Staples for insurance.) Arcadia University, here I come!

[Pairou]

I keep getting people reading the blog from this forum which is amusing, I must say. Hello everyone! I'm not Nurse Ratched, by the way. On medical stuff, I'm always 'Nurse K'.

I admit I learned about your blog from this post. I've been stalking it ever since. :x

I love you Nurse K!

[Dragon_Dreamer]

I have an update on Kid #1!

Turns out that "someone" anonymously called the school to report the continued looking at rape pictures, since his mother had mentioned him still accessing them at school. ;) He was apparently caught red-handed again, EXPELLED, the other students with him given counseling (with a couple other suspensions and detentions), and a letter sent home to parents. The filter has also been tightened a bit to check flash drives as well.

His mother is claiming she voluntarily pulled him from the school because they were "too harsh" on her precious son. He now goes to the local private school, and is on probation there. One major violation, and he's gone. Said private school is affiliated with the public one.

My manager is at the point where he's just showing the kid how to fix his own damned problems. He's tired of the kid claiming he knows what he's doing, then coming back and complaining it's broken. I make sure I stay nearby, cause the mother often leaves during these sessions. Even though its up front, our store tends to not be very busy. Last thing we need is the claim that we taught the kid something illegal, or anything else of that nature. (And I don't put it past the kid to say my manager touched him or something. :P)

Here's to just desserts!