So scared.........................

Sometimes reality is funnier than anything on a sitcom. Today we had something at work that I thought should could right out of The Office.

We have had an older version of Internet Explorer for over 3 years. (I think it is something like version 6). Because of blockers and locks it is impossible to download a newer version or download another browser (I have tried to use Mozilla, and no go). So basically everyone is stuck with the older Internet Explorer. No big deal. Then today when I got to work and powered up my computer, I noticed that we now had the newest version of Internet Explorer (finally we have tabs).

You would have been shocked at how confused people were. Before school even started I got 4 phone calls asking what was wrong, why did Explorer look so different. On the old version there was a shortcut on the top toolbar to take you to your e-mail. People were lost without it. They actually had to make an announcement through the entire building so that people knew that everything was still the same, you could still check your e-mail. We had a meeting during the day, and people were outraged, they thought their computers were against them. People were actually complaining and looking to write central office to get the old version back. After school a coworker ran into my room in hysterics asking about "what are these tabs? I click on a link and it doesn't open another window, it opens this tab, what am I supposed to do with that?"

Relax people, it's called technology. We are still far from computers over taking us and enslaving us like in The Matrix, but with more people like my co-workers, we might not be that far away.