This really goes beyond my training as a furniture salesman, sir.
I am in a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad mood.
My computer is the biggest piece EVER! I have to start and restart it FIVE times EVERY FREAKING MORNING to get the damn thing to boot and actually start. Sometimes, it will start without this. But then my mouse and keyboard don’t work so I have to restart it again. I then usually have to start and restart it an additional five times…leading me to turning my computer on and off TEN TIMES before I can do any work.
It takes an average of 9 minutes from the time the computer starts actually working right to when I can actually do anything on it (as in it takes 9 minutes for my computer to “load my personal settings” and install, uninstall, and reinstall all my programs). According to our IT department this is NORMAL?????
Once my computer is on and working, it then takes an additional SEVEN minutes to open Microsoft Outlook. This goes up to about ten minutes if I attempt to open Internet explorer at the same time.
An average morning requires approximately 45 MINUTES to be able to start doing anything on my computer.
This is NOT NORMAL, I don’t care what the hell my IT department says. And seriously, if this IS normal for the company…we need to do something about it.
Then, I have a hole in the stairwell office (literally…my office is a little side room off the 2nd floor in the stairwell…this office is the ONLY thing off the stairwell in the 2nd floor…there is no real second floor over here. Only a 20 x 20 room shared with 5 other people). We do not have real internet connection. We have a co-axial cable that connects all 6 computers to the internet and each other. If one computer goes down…we all go down.
I am having major issues staying connected to the internet this morning. So far I have been disconnected 10 times in 20 minutes. I’ve had to restart my computer an additional 3 times this morning (going through the entire process all over again) in order to get my computer to work.
I’ve been here since 7 this morning (it is now 10 AM). I haven’t accomplished a single thing other than turning on and off my computer. Literally.
And lets not even get me started on how often this thing freezes up for no reason. Last week I lost an entire report because the computer froze. Best part, I was saving the report every two pages or so. But, when the computer froze, it decided to ignore all the saves…and recovered the file back at the FIRST PAGE and the so called “saves” I was doing…apparently didn’t really save. ARGH!
I am so grumpy right now that I honestly want to throw my computer down the stairs (the ones right outside my door) and claim I need a new computer. Sigh.
Please tell me you have some good news for me today?
