Schools and Mac OS 9

Question

Today I was called on a job to install some CD-ROM educational games onto the hard disk drive of several macs. To make it so that the students would be able to play the games from more than one computer I burned disk images of them to the hard drive (with DiskCopy). I do this all the time, and have done so with several disks on my own ibook. My Street Atlas USA CD-ROM launches everytime I click on its classic icon on my ibook, and my GME98 CD-ROM has to be opened first in the finder, and then the app can be opened.
The games I was installing had to be opened first in the finder and then the game could be played. Sadly the head lady found out what I was doing and insisted that I was doing it wrong, because CD's cannot be copied to hard drives, and that only 1 student can play them one at a time. I tried to explain to her what I was doing with DiskCopy, and to demonstrate to her that what I was doing does work, but she insisted on being ignorant, so I left, and the person that called me to the job called a lecture.
In some ways I miss old Mac OS 9. It was not as reliable as OSX, but it was a nice os. I noticed one of the macs had Timbukto Pro. Has anyone used this software and how good is it? I was thinking about buying a OSX version someday.
Oh and how would you have handled the above situation?
John

Answer 1

If were on staff at a school, I think it would be good to have a union. In many ways unions protect employees. But then again if I am a valuable asset, I may not need as much protection. I've worked at companies where I was a very very valuable asset to their tech team, and so firing me was always out of the question. I could show up late, and do so much that a disliked or new employee could never do and get away with.
And I've had to stretch myself in non techy fields living in Northern California and working at jobs were I was not a valuable asset. At such jobs it was easy to terminate me without notice. But its not like I enjoyed working at those places anways. At one job I was heavily overworked and underpaid. I worked like 5 24 hour shifts at a house, was given no overtime, they did not accomindate my religious convictions, and were abusive to me. And on top of that who likes changing 10-15 briefs a day for only $119 per day?
Well sicne I recently relocated to a large city, I can concentrate on the work I want to do, and work that I am good at. I am no longer living in a rural area, where Walmart is the largest employer. But then again if I move back to such an environment it was good that I have diversified my job skills in non techy areas, since techy jobs are hard to find if not impossible to find in such economies.
John