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rob, Wed 14 Jan 2004, 13:01)
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Most pointless training course.....
I work in financial services (hey, someone has to) and every two years every single employee has to attend mandatory training sessions. Most are fairly useful - or at least you can see the sense of them - but the most patronising has to be the Fire Safety course.
Basically it's supposed to take half an hour - if you're a very slow reader it might - and you sit there being told the bleeding obvious. If there's a fire, get out. Set off the alarms on the way. End of. If you can't figure that out for yourself, you probably shouldn't be out unaccompanied anyway.
What's the most pointless training you've had inflicted on you? Even more worth telling if you were simultaneously patronised (pictures of fire extinguishers ffs!).
(, Wed 13 Feb 2008, 14:22, 1 reply, 17 years ago)
I've been on one!I was sent on a letter and report writing course by an employer as she didn't like my "severely abbreviated and terse style".
Her letter to the organisers was held up in the course as " the most verbose and roundabout piece of writing I have seen outside a victorian novel. Why doesn't this person get to the point?".
She was less than impressed at my 97% pass mark.
Cow.
(, Tue 19 Feb 2008, 11:43, Reply)
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