I don't understand why it had to be so annoyingly difficult. If you want to send a number to my cell phone, go ahead. Why must I download apps and scan QR codes and try to figure out if I have the app or don't have the app.
I'm still not sure. They seem to be on my phone, and they seem to be linked to my account. Now I wait for IT to finish the set up, and then I can see if it's all working properly--and more important, that these apps aren't influencing any of my other accounts.
I'm jangled because the training video that showed us how to get this set up didn't coordinate to what I saw on my phone and computer--and I have a fairly recent phone and computer. So I'm not sure what I've done exactly. If I find myself locked out, I have a few days before papers are due in my online classes, but I really don't want to spend any more time on this.
I understand the reason for extra security. I resent it, but I understand it.
I'm also jangled because I feel this shiver of the little old lady that I am becoming, the one who decides that all this technology means I just don't want to participate. Am I approaching the end of my ability to be in the workforce because I don't want to be bothered with setting up all this stuff on my phone?
I know that people who live on their phones will find this unfathomable. They download apps and conduct business and banking on that tiny screen. I am always touching something that sends me somewhere else, and my fingers aren't that huge. Sigh.
I'm willing to use technology, but I don't want it to be on my phone. I have resigned myself to the fact that I need to carry my phone with me, but I don't like it. I am tired of tethers.
Well, there's a first line of a poem--I am tired of tethers. So maybe today's technology irritation was not a total waste.
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