I'm only as fast as my dinosaur will run!

In this day of computers, it's very important for your “work” companion to be as or more efficient then you.

All the technology available and it blows my mind how each day I sit and wait for each program to load, seconds ticking by, turning into minutes and finely giving in and rebooting. While I am very sure some companies have these issues under control, let me take a hand count on the many that don’t. Putting each and every one of my fine fellow workers at the mercy of this inanimate object.

Not to complain (or should I say complain a lot) but I go into the office each day, now mind you its a small office, sit eager to start the day's accounting, but my hopes are squished with the computer, not walking to the home screen but I believe its crawling there.

Some people, and others here do, complain to the boss about how frustrating this issue is, only to be told to contact our tech support person, who mind you, is never in the office or in her home office when you need her, but by the chance of the phone being answered one calls. Sad but each time one approaches this issue with the tech they are told “its a virus”. There is no looking at the computer, no nothing, makes me what to scream!!!!

So in the art of always looking to the good of each situation I have taken on the new approach, the time the computer, or as I like to call it “the dinosaur” has its thinking of working issues, I can do other things productive, file, smoke a cig, write, meditate, and so on. This frees up my personal time at home! While I am not actually trying to be a slacker or anything, but I myself have a bit of computer savvy under my belt, so I have suggested to the boss a upgrade our memory cards, easy fix, no need to pay anyone else to come in, but no one must wait for the tech.

So I have positively taken on a new approach to this fun issue, I work on positive thinking and all the things that I can do while sitting waiting at the computer.

As with most companies, where I work is not any different, we are expected to perform as well as we can, we are to be productive, and the entire time we are all supposed to be pleasant. So with that in mind, when my boss requested a report from me the other day, which mind you I float between several companys' accounts in the course of a day, and he has been forewarned about the computers, I politely replied, “I am only as fast as the dinosaur will run”. Not being sarcastic or anything I figured this was a pleasant upbeat way of saying “you ain’t getting it any time soon”

So later that day the boss sent me a email, thanking me for getting the report in a reasonable amount of time and also for making him realize that one can only perform on a project with the correct tools.

So the next time your in a hurry and your computer takes its time, remember:

YOU ARE ONLY AS FAST AS THE DINOSAUR WILL RUN!