You walk into your office, sit down and unpack your bag, possibly your lunch and agenda, like I do each morning.  Then you turn on your computer, put your food in the fridge and head back to your desk.

Before you can even open the first e-mail that’s marked urgent, your boss shows up and asks you to send him the latest sales report on the department’s products.  Then your co-worker starts chatting up with you about his weekend.  Then you have another person come to you and mentions that the printer is down.  Next, your phone is ringing off the hook, but you’re worried about letting it go to voice mail.

Your boss calls you over to their office and asks that you send her a list of something that you’ve created in Microsoft Excel.  The list is in a vertical fashion, but she wants it a horizontal way instead.

You check your contact list and see that you have about 50 names in your Excel spreadsheet.  How in the world will you  get this to her in the next few minutes?

Believe me, this happened to me a few times and it took me quite a bit of time to get this done, before I discovered the Transpose function in Excel.

Does your boss have a BlackBerry?  Do you know of someone that has some sort of wireless device?  Chances are that you are able to answer “Yes” to one of these questions.

Cell phones and laptops have come a long way from the clunky old items back in the 80’s.  If you’re like me, you remember the old brick phones with shoulder straps and laptops that were so heavy, you needed a crane to haul them around.  Of course, times have changed and the nostalgia wears on.

Technology has advanced so much in the past 30 years.  Cell phones have become credit card thin and laptops are slowly getting there.  Take a look at the iPad.  Everything you need in a small paper thin box.  Just make sure not to snap it in half.

Everyone’s using them these days and getting a lot more done in a 24 hour period.  People feel more productive and have a better sense of accomplishment of getting tasks done in such a rapid manner.

Are you currently looking for a job?  Have you recently been laid off and want to get back into the workforce as soon as possible?  If you are part of this scenario, you are not alone.

Since the fall of the global economy, many people have been trying to find a new job, sometimes even a new career.  Some are just trying to make ends meet.

An interesting thing happened to me the other day.  One of my managers asked me to scan in a large number of pages of a document and create a PDF out of it.  Then he wanted me to place it on the company’s network drive, so that other managers would be able to access it as well.

So of course, in ordinary fashion, I had trouble with the scanner, took a bit of time calling tech support and finally got it to work.  But that besides the point.  I just thought I’d show that technology can be very finicky when you show some sort of negative emotion around it – just a theory of mine.

Once the PDF was on the network drive, one of the managers e-mailed me stating that the file was too large to review on their BlackBerry and was wondering if I could cut the file down to 10-page increments.