Back to School
I've been having some troubles recently with internet access at work. You see, they've decided to block a lot of sites and give us limited time on others. Strangely, this hasn't effected my blogging! But every 5 or 6 clicks, I'm getting a 'Page not found'. I wait a few minutes and try again and there's no problem. Why?? So, I finally complained to IT about this 'Page not found' thing. I was supposed to designing a menu poster for a Christms Lunch. They wanted me use pictures of Santas and other Christmas images. I went to Google image search and found a few good ones. I searched for 'gifts' and 'presents' too and came up with a few good clipart images to use. But that 'Page not found' thing kept recurring and it drove me bonkers. I spoke to a guy in IT who sounded wholly unimpressed and bored. I asked him if it was the company's way of discouraging internet usage. He said that he didn't know. I told him how I was trying to find images for a menu poster with pictures of Santa on it (you know, so that he knew it wasn't personal surfing; it was work!). Again, unimpressed. He told me that he's made a note of my complaint and they'd check the lines. Whoopty-do! But I've vowed to complain again if it keeps happening. Other people are experiencing the same damn thing. And, to top it all off, I found a good piece of clipart of christmas gifts and I clicked on it to copy the larger version. Blocked! I get our IT company's page come up advising me that I am not allowed to view that page because it's an internet shopping site. So I tried another one. Blocked because of something about lifestyles and I-don't-know-what! All I want is the picture of the gifts!! My only way around all this is that have my boss request that my status be changed, meaning that I'd be back to full internet access. He won't be keen on doing that as he'll be questioned by the company as to why I need it. I mean, in the end, I got another picture of gifts, but it took me three times as long to get it and it wasn't the one I wanted. But I'll tell him anyway and see how he feels about it. Am I back in Kindergarten?!
