Working for a corporation is so fun.

[tjwash]

I just had some required on line training on something I wrote six months ago.

I passed the test...

[GOPisEvil]

1. State government isn't much better.

I co-wrote some training on handling information received from the IRS. Still, every year, I am required to take the refresher course and document that I have done so. Amazingly, I pass the test every year. :D

[tjwash]

2. I was laughing the whole time I took it...

...because I wrote the test also.

[pagerbear]

3. This afternoon I have to endure a training session

...in something that is totally unrelated to the work I do.

[tjwash]

4. That's the worst.

They made me take a test once, on something that is totally unrealted to my job, and something I could not even find study material for. I failed it three times, at a hundred and fifty bucks a pop, just because it was "required" for my job.

[eyesroll]

5. I work for a small publishing house

This fall, we are (finally) migrating from OS9 to OSX, and from Quark to InDesign.

I have been informed that everyone in the editorial and creative services departments will need to attend training on those two packages.

I have been using OSX in my house for more than a year.

I learn software much better by sitting down and actually screwing around with it, than I do by listening to training. (And the training will be our IT guy, in the conference room, with a computer on the overhead projector.)

This is an independent business, without a strict corporate hierarchy or complex rules or anything. I could very easily be excused (as could the half-a-dozen other people in the building who use OSX at home), at least for the OSX training. I've even tried to frame this as a productivity thing -- should I spend an entire morning learning something I already know how to use, or should I spend that morning doing my actual job / shouldn't the people who don't need the training be excused to make more time for those who do/etc.-- but so far, nothing's working. It's not like my job depends on successful programming or configuring or anything , and nobody else's welfare depends on my ability to manipulate OSX -- as long as I can access and interact with the files (which, as I said, I've been doing at home for a year), it'll be fine.

[NJCher]

7. look at this way

Speaking as a teacher, there are almost always one or two individuals in the course that don't really need it--just like there are one or two individuals who really shouldn't be in the course at all because they don't have the background to understand it.

Those overqualified individuals often are a great help to other students. There's something about the way a student can put it to another student that is unique. So if your employer wants you to go, go and contribute (but without sounding like a "know it all").

Anyway, speaking of training, the ultimate is training someone else to do your job because of corporate downsizing. Ever had to do that? I have. I handled it graciously and professionally and I've always regretted that, LOL.


Cher

[pagerbear]

9. Train my replacement? Hell, I had to interview applicants!

First, let's just say I should never have been a secretary/admin. asst. in the first place. But to have to screen and interview applicants for my own job was quite an indignity. (I was transferred to another part of the company because my boss--She Who Must Be Obeyed--didn't want me working for her any more.)

On the plus side (for the company), I could week out people I thought SWMBO would have eaten for lunch.

[Bonhomme Richard]

6. Corporate policy where I work requires..............

you to check in at DU at least twice a day in order to keep up with the truth and current events.
I'm serious!

Of course I'm the only one that works here.

[tjwash]

8. I work in executive and sales hell...

...and have to listen to dittohead rantings all day from the different offices on the floor. As we speak, the old "welfare moms driving up in Cadillacs and buying fillet mignon with foodstamps" urban myth is flying around.

If it wasn't for DU, I would go crazy here...

[Nikia]

10. I wish I got some corporate training

Besides on OSHAA required stuff and food safety, which I know more about than anyone there besides my boss. I have to figure everything out by myself. Maybe, I'll get to have forklift training this year though so I can be truly self sufficient. I want real training though. When I have interviewed at bigger companies, they also ask about what training I have had and seem to look down on the fact that I haven't had much formal training at work.

[TrogL]

11. It gets really recursive

When somebody recommends you try software you wrote.