Yesterday my mentor, T, then tells me there is an internal website that has information that is vital to the job. She sends me the web address for the site. I go to the site only to find out I need to download the program. However, in order to download the program I need to have a login and password. I follow the procedures to request a login and password only to find out I need to take two National Security Agency (NSA) training courses before I can apply for a login and password. The NSA courses are required because the company is not American owned and the site contains proprietary information about communication systems that the company maintains for its customers that could be used to disrupt these vital communication systems. I locate the courses on the company’s training site only to find out that one course is three hours long and the other is one hour. I throw up my hands in disgust and call it a day.
Today I spent the morning taking the boring online courses so I can get my login and download the program. After completing the courses I requested my login and password and downloaded the program. That’s when I found out that there are no checks in the system to verify that I took the classes. This is another wonderful example of life in the corporate world.
The Corporate Slave 
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