That's twice!

Yes Starling I do indeed have many friends that all like to communicate in a different way and I have to then remember and it drives me crazy.

That's terrible janerowena. Surely he shouldn't have had access?

No chance, his mother and aunt and great-aunts were all teachers, the other side are all Forces. He has Duty written somewhere in his DNA.

Sense of duty overdrive. Your DH should throw a wobbly and have a 24 hour virus. I knew someone who used to do that and she was treated with kid gloves and enormous respect because the Head was frequently reminded that tho' the school could function without him, it couldn't function without her.

On a slightly connected note to original post, well it's reminded me anyway, I am finding that each of my friends and acquaintances prefer a different bit of technology to communicate! So to get a reply I have to remember to text one, Facebook message another, email another, and so on! Does anyone else have this problem!

I know - and he has had a huge staff changeover this year. Much of it fairly last-minute. He started work a full week before anyone else. It looks as if the company that runs the programme have full authority from their end, and can probably get back to how it was sometime during that week, so not quite as bad as he thought, but he is very much looking forward to venting! The Head is a bit sneaky. I don't like him.

It sounds as though the head needs to "go on a course" before he is let loose on the computer again! I would say that your husband would be fully justifed in telling the head what he thinks of his interference, politely or otherwise. Four weeks of work has to be repeated.

Timetable organisation is a highly skilled operation, even with the computer. My father used to do it years ago with just pencil and paper. Inevitably, after he had it all sorted out, someone would appear with something they wanted to get changed "Could you just shift X from Tuesday to Thursday . . ."

I wouldn't mind so much if I thought he would get any thanks, but he won't. How he can politely ask that the Head not be allowed to access the files in future is going to be tricky.

There are Headteachers who demonstrate the Peter Principle beautifully! He is obviously one of them

No, it wasn't possible. They didn't want to change the system, but were forced into it and now are paying the price. It's one of those things where the system is good for school reports and attendances and so on, so the non-techie teachers love it (ie the Head) but rubbish for timetabling.

That is awful janerowena. Was there no copy made on a disk or maybe not possible - I always like a hard copy in my hot little hand! I hope they get some help with redoing it.

I will probably get sued or something for repeating this further demonstration of techie ineptitude, but...

DBH and another colleague are in charge of the school timetable. It's a huge business, with almost 200 hundred staff and 4 separate schools, each with their own timetables, also tennis and swimming coaching.

The Headmaster for reasons unknown at 9.30 last night deleted what took my husband 4 weeks out of his summer holiday to do. DBH and colleague cannot get it back, despite considerable IT skills, a support team has been called in and I am not expecting him home tonight - although he still has to teach... So far it looks as if they will have to start afresh, because the new system the Head insisted they change to doesn't do backups in the same way.

So many questions. What was the Head wanting to do, why didn't he ask DBH to do it for him, why does he have access to changing the timetable at all in the first place?

I do hope he isn't allowed the password in future. I want to go in and slap him, because he has probably ruined next weekend, which was all booked up.

Priceless!