Any hope in salvaging the time?
I've tried to use the opportunity to ...
--network,
--update the holiday card and shopping lists,
--edit some S.O.P. Manual or other,
--catch up on reading random regs (or novels, whatever),
--take urgent calls outside the room ("oh, hi Mum!"),
when I've exhausted my efforts to enjoy the rejuvenating effect of a day-away-from-the-office,
I do tend to get myself into trouble.
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Mon 19 Mar 2012, 7:30, 1 reply)

--usually the same chumps you had to do it with last time.
--unless you're going old skool with a pen & paper - at least that looks like you're taking notes, right? Then most trainers worth their salt ask you to turn your phones/pads/notebooks/whatever off.
--see above.
--see above.
--unless you are on-call (& usually they will know) - no dice.
I missed the reading bit.
--hey if you find reading manuals interesting then we are both in the wrong job.
However - www.b3ta.com/questions/trainingcourses/post1563879
Jesus, I've been trained by some smart bastards!
However. "I'm on call" maybe the new cop-out.
Now I just have to find an "emergency gardening situation"
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 19 Mar 2012, 7:54, closed)