I seem to have fallen into a routine of having to complete some nearly inane errand and get home around 2 hours after work - maybe. (Actually, this is okay. None of this stuff is essential, but now that I'm not taking evening classes, I just have a lot more time.)
I think I'll need a tranquilizer after today's work, though. It's mandatory training day, where I take some online courses, including one for disposal of hazardous chemicals. Whoever made this course was a fiend!
If you unthinkingly click the first button, it takes you to a tutorial explaining how the course operates. Screw that! I restart the course and hit the button to take the final test, instead. Seriously! This course takes about an hour and I have a lot better things to do than go through a mindlessly boring safety course.
Turns out it's a hard test - at least if you haven't read the material. I only scored a 69% and I needed a 70% to pass. Still, close enough that I'll probably pass the next time. How many unique questions can they have. Some of the ones I missed the first time will be repeated. That actually works, plus I get lucky on the few I don't know and get a 100%!
Except it turns out I'm not that lucky. When I exit the test, I've only met one of the criteria. Not only do you have to pass the test, you have to at least page through each page of material!
So I re-enter the course and it takes me back to the same place I was when I left off - the test! How the heck do I get somewhere in this maze where I can actually page through the course?! Why didn't I read the damn tutorial on how this stupid thing worked?!
Actually, if you look closely, there's a "Home" button in the lower left corner of the screen. It's almost as small as the ones on the other side of the screen, so I didn't notice it. Clicking the "Home" button actually worked! (Bottom left hand corner is a bad place to locate home buttons, by the way. Nobody looks down there.)
But then, not only do you actually have to page through each slide, you have to click on every single hyperlink on the page before it let's you go to the next page. Even if there are no hyperlinks, there seems to be a time delay so you have to spend a certain amount of time on each page before you can go to the next page. And after going through all this BS, it asks you intermediate questions along the way and you have to go back and review the material if you miss the intermediate question! As if a person could read the material when they're struggling to find ways to make this thing change pages quicker!
Geez, what an ordeal. And it's time estimate wasn't even correct. I wasted an hour and a half of my life struggling with that damn course! It seems specially designed to frustrate those of us that blow off these stupid courses and just take the always lame test that would be impossible to score less than 90% on unless you'd been dropped on your head as a child. Hmmm. I was kind of bummed out about getting a cerificate for the course in portrait mode, but I wonder if I could reprint it in landscape mode.
