So I'm taking this class certification program that's offered once a year at our company. It's an administrative assistant's course and it is literally a year long thing. It's also extremely expensive and in the eyes of The Company, admins are pure overhead (aka pure money-sucking employees), so getting your manager to agree to pay for it is a feat in and of itself. My boss asked me 5 times if I really wanted to take it before signing my application because dude, we're only allowed to miss 4 classes! All year! (And there is totally a girl in the class who has missed WAY more than 4 classes and is officially On Report).
Anyway, the program is this whole mishmash of things, from personality tests (Hello, DiSC! Hello, Meyer-Briggs!) to business writing to All Things Microsoft Office (because we're also taking this wacky hard Microsoft Office certification test at the end which...woo. Yay. Except not.) So there's about 15 of us in the class, mostly women with one guy. And there's (of course) some really annoying people. Well, there's really only one annoying woman, who keeps bitching and moaning and trying to get us to bitch and moan. Like this week, when she complained about the PowerPoint classes we're doing right now. I really don't know the hell she's complaining about when it was her idea to end the class early on Saturday rather than stay for the whole session. (OF COURSE we all went along with it, it was Saturday and I was a little hung over and dude, it's POWERPOINT. NOT HARD.) (Well, not hard for me anyway.) Granted, the instructor found it necessary to show us how to use The Smoking Gun (the hell???) in the middle of class but whatever. The teacher she LOVES bugs the fuck out of me because he teaches all of his classes as though none of us have ever turned a computer on, much less used it.
Anyway, the class goes through December and I am already ready to throttle her. And I'm not even allowed to drink during class! Horrors!
Speaking of drinking, being back on WW has meant that I am drinking something like 3 liters of water a day. It also means that I am peeing every hour on the hour, whether I like it or not. All I know is that it's a damn good thing that eating better makes me feel better because if it didn't I would be killing something right now.
Oh, and I would give my pinky toe for a cupcake.
Seriously.
Anyway, the program is this whole mishmash of things, from personality tests (Hello, DiSC! Hello, Meyer-Briggs!) to business writing to All Things Microsoft Office (because we're also taking this wacky hard Microsoft Office certification test at the end which...woo. Yay. Except not.) So there's about 15 of us in the class, mostly women with one guy. And there's (of course) some really annoying people. Well, there's really only one annoying woman, who keeps bitching and moaning and trying to get us to bitch and moan. Like this week, when she complained about the PowerPoint classes we're doing right now. I really don't know the hell she's complaining about when it was her idea to end the class early on Saturday rather than stay for the whole session. (OF COURSE we all went along with it, it was Saturday and I was a little hung over and dude, it's POWERPOINT. NOT HARD.) (Well, not hard for me anyway.) Granted, the instructor found it necessary to show us how to use The Smoking Gun (the hell???) in the middle of class but whatever. The teacher she LOVES bugs the fuck out of me because he teaches all of his classes as though none of us have ever turned a computer on, much less used it.
Anyway, the class goes through December and I am already ready to throttle her. And I'm not even allowed to drink during class! Horrors!
Speaking of drinking, being back on WW has meant that I am drinking something like 3 liters of water a day. It also means that I am peeing every hour on the hour, whether I like it or not. All I know is that it's a damn good thing that eating better makes me feel better because if it didn't I would be killing something right now.
Oh, and I would give my pinky toe for a cupcake.
Seriously.
4 Comments:
What are they teaching you in PowerPoint? I'm always interested to know, since that's all I did all day, every day, for six years. (Create PPT presentations, not teach it.)
Seriously? Nothing I didn't already know, except for adding in music and movies. And effects. That interface is WAY better in 2003 than it used to be. And also, I was the one who showed the teacher how to hide the sound icon when inserting sound clips, but the teacher was NOT able to tell us how to attach a music file to play throughout the presentation. In other words, the teacher sucked and now I am going to have to go through the entire book to study for the test. Bastard.
Oooh I like the personality tests. INFP in the house! But, PowerPoint? Ick.
Excel? Double Ick. I'll tolerate Word because I have to.
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