Sometimes It’s About Keeping Up Appearances

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2023-03-16 13:30:02

At my high school, we use this assignment tracking website to, well, keep track of our assignments, and using it is a part of your grade in some classes.

One day, a substitute teacher in first period tells us to pull out our laptops, open Chrome, and go to the assignment tracker. Most students use school-provided computers, but I brought my own laptop to school, running Windows. I don’t have Chrome installed, and I don’t have admin permissions on that laptop, so I can’t install it, so I open up Firefox and log in to the tracker.

The teacher begins walking around the room, making sure we’re all doing what we’re supposed to. She stops at my desk.

I turn my laptop to face her to prove that it is working fine, but she keeps standing there, continuing to insist that I use Chrome, ignoring the other person that needs help. She goes over there to help that person, but only after telling me to open Chrome and open the tracker there.

Instead of installing Chrome, I instead download its icon from the Internet and change the Firefox icon on my taskbar to the Chrome logo.