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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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Creepy...
... is the only word to use the cretin who ran the manual handling course I once had to go on.
The day started well when he demonstrated the correct way to pick up your car keys. And ripped the arse of his trousers in doing so, without missing a beat or indeed acknowledging the fact.
He then went on to video each one of us picking up a box (so we could critique each other's techniques/where we were going wrong etc. Not, I say again, not, so he could masturbate over it when he got home).
The highlight however was when he rewound the tape so we could watch back our attempts. Only for him to go too far back on the tape to the previous day's course. Which was at a pub. With lots of young female staff. Who had to pick things up. In skirts.
(, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 23:12, 6 replies)
Are you in the Taliban or something?

(, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 23:36, closed)
Clearly hasn't been on their
"Sexual Harassment in the Training Environment" top-up course in a while.
(, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 23:52, closed)
OMG ROFL WHAT'S HIS B3TA USERNAME LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

(, Mon 19 Mar 2012, 1:05, closed)
But surely
using the correct 'bend at the knee, not at the waist' technique, his attempts to re-create a Benny Hill sketch must have been a dismal FAIL?
(, Mon 19 Mar 2012, 11:34, closed)
The skirts...
... were short, the camera angles were from the front. Hey presto! Upskirt shots
(, Mon 19 Mar 2012, 22:29, closed)
Instant trainer fail
The first day I worked for *****, we did the manual handling course with a woman who introduced herself as possessing a law degree.

Now, if you have an LLB, but you're working for £21K a year for a grocer in your 30s, you probably didn't do very well.

Oh yes. The first thing she asked me to do was to demonstrate a "bad lift". Arms outstretched, bent waist etc.

"Sorry, no".

"You have to do it, or I can't pass you, and we'll have to withdraw your job offer."

"Ok. My mortgage is £41K; how much of it would the damages cover if my back went?"

Dead silence. Eighteen months later I left, having won £11000 in back shift payments for over 60 other guys in my shift. Evidently shit lawyers were common throughout the firm.
(, Mon 19 Mar 2012, 22:30, closed)

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