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Inspirational or a waste of precious slacking-off time? I once went on a buzzword bingo-laden training course which ended up with my being held at gunpoint in public. Could have gone better, to be honest. Tell us your tales from either side of the lectern

(, Thu 15 Mar 2012, 15:01)
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Yep. Seen them.
As the organisation I work for has many IT-developed productivity/tracking applications, each of which needs about 2 days' training on, and most people have to at least pretend they know how they work, the people who write the applications have to then teach about 2,000 people themselves, in groups of 6 at a time. People who don't want to be there, people who won't use the application and a large proportion of people who think they're so clever at what they do, they won't ever have to stoop to learning something new that someone else does.

This usually leads to at least one person arguing with the creator of the app about how they've done it wrong, which is never going to result in everyone getting out on time- such a person insists on doggedly insisting on a point, asking the same query in several different ways and then interrupting the training to draw on the white board to get their point across. Always that sinking feeling of gloom when the final bit of training is completed and 'so...any questions?' elicits the reply "Well, YES actually..." and you know you're not getting out of there on time.
(, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 13:27, Reply)

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