The internet at workplace.

The internet connection is still out at my work place. As a place of educational institution you would have thought we have at least the basic necessity to fullfill our job requirements. How are we to do any work if there is no internet connection? It takes days or maybe weeks to have it repaired and then we are being reprimanded for not carrying out our task well.

I know some of you might be wondering shouldn’t a teacher be teaching rather than get hooked online? We also use the net for work and information search. However this week so happens to be study week therefore we have more free time on our hands to actually surf the net for materials or do some reading to improve or gain extra knowledge …………………………….what? doesn’t sound convincing?

Alright, alright, I admit we also use them for chatting, palying games, log in to friendster/facebook and etc., but hey……. for your information, we are humans too and it isn’t too much to ask for occasionally checking mail or msn with friends of collegue. Of course all this has to be in moderation as long as it does not interfere with our work, as the saying goes ‘all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’. Besides it also enables one to relax and be relieved of stress especially in our field which we have to deal with different personalities and attitude of students almost every day.

Isn’t this an information technology era? If so why are the connections so poor and this is supposed to be a Pre-U educational institute. What rubbish and irony of the situation! No wonder the public has less confidence of the local education.