I’ll admit it, I plug an external mouse into my notebook at work; however, this is just for convenience sake. I have two more notebooks in my desk, and we have notebooks all over the support floor and in our lab. Even our incoming fax machine is just a notebook. And when I go to use any of them, I am perfectly comfortable using the touchpad, pointing stick, or whatever the particular machine uses; after all, I’ve been working with notebooks for 5 1/2 years.

I mention this as I am constantly amazed and frustrated that the majority of my coworkers cannot use these things, and they will loudly announce how much they hate them (or worse, will tell customers that they feel that touchpads are horrible devices). It’s a bit ridiculous… I may be the longest term employee in our group, but many of them have been there for years also. Perhaps I’ve been so successful with them and our customers because I took the point of view from day one that I should learn to use the equipment as our customers use it.

Which is what makes this video I just came across so poignant. I’ll be bookmarking this at work so that I can say “If a two year old can do it, why can’t you?”