As we speak, I sit at home trying in vein to coax my work-issue laptop into receiving an RSS feed so I can view some online training videos. This is after an attempt at the office to stream the tutorials. Of course that resulted in a bright read Access Denied message. Next I tried downloading the files to which each replied ‘Download Failed’. Finally, I gave up and headed home and have now found that my laptop just refuses to respond. I have since reached the conclusion that it’s just too slow. So now I resort to using my personal laptop to complete this function. All this for some work-related training?

So why is it that we are asked to plan our professional development and cut corners to save the budget but aren’t provided with sufficient tools to succeed at these tasks? As you may have guessed, I do not work for a technology company and it is clear that technology is not the priority here. We are the last to adopt the latest and most efficient technological advances. But we deal. That is, until pure frustration from watching the little hour glass hover endlessly while the load bar reads Done. I wonder how many hours are spent each year waiting for systems to process. I’m sure someone has researched that. Well I feel much better having vented my frustrations at you. So back to the task at hand… only two more days before vacation…

Tags: boredom, computer slowness, corporate frustration, cubicle