Do you ever get frustrated while doing this?

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I'm wondering if it is just me... or if other people sometimes get frustrated working on this? Feedback would definitely help.

For example... Just recently, I purchased a product (actually from someone here), that was designed to speed up the process of getting certain things done, but in fact has slowed it down so much that it would almost have been better if I did it manually. On the surface, it looks like a good product. But. It doesn't really "work", it was kind of put together haphazardly in a rush to 'get' it out there, counting and drooling at the dollar signs. Now I'm not complaining about this individual specifically, because this person is not the first person to use this kind of tactic... (although it could have been done a lot better and there really is no excuse for it, but that is a different point)

But I get frustrated when I go to do something... And something that should take 5 minutes ends up taking 5 hours. And, for a really really really simple task. It's not that I 'don't' want to do the work involved. It's that when I go to do the work, something that should take 5 minutes takes maybe 5 hours.

It's kind of like going to make some toast before you start your day. So you go to make the toast, but find out that the toaster you just bought doesn't work -- you need to buy a plug first (every other toaster you've ever bought has a plug included). So you go buy the plug, still doesn't work. You take apart the toaster, then realize inside printed on the circuit board it says it needs a japanese plug (it did not say anything about it in the instruction book, nor how to find out. You just had to guess until you figured this out). And adapter because it was made in Europe so needs different voltage. So frustrated, you go get the correct plug and adapter. But then when you plug that in, toaster still doesn't work and you find out that apparently this brand of toaster doesn't like just any old bread, but that you need to have bread imported from germany (again, not included with the product, but rather you had to talk to 10 different people until one guy in tech support said that he had a friend who spent a day discovering which pieces of bread worked, until he figured out it was German bread), exactly one inch thick. So you go get the bread from Germany, stick it in, start toasting, and then it shorts your house. So you go buy some fuses, finally stick those in. Try toasting the toast again. Finally get it to 'kind' of toast, but it only toasts one side of the toast.

And then you look at the time, and it turns out you've spent all day/8 hours simply trying to make two pieces of toast before you could start your day, only to find that the day is over because the toaster wouldn't work.

Now, curious, is it just me, or does everyone experience days once every several weeks to maybe at least once a month like this?

Thanks.
#frustrated

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