you took annual leave to do a training course?
you corporate bellend.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 2:56, 2 replies)

I'd agree,
but I don't think the course was work related. Still, it's a strange sort of reward, and means the company got to dictate his leave time.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 8:06, closed)

It was work related
The idea was that we were to be given an appreciation of the workload in a cockpit of a fast jet or other military aircraft.
Admittedly a glider doesn't have the avionics that a fighter has but on the other hand, not having an engine does raise the ante somewhat.
( P-MONKE We're all fucked, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 10:44, closed)

In that case,
I'm afraid janet is right.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 20 Mar 2012, 11:01, closed)

Last job I had
the manger organised mandatory training with an outside training company for 3 days into my holiday *after* I'd booked them and told me I had to attend upon pain of death or jobloss.
Unfortunately for him I have been a union rep. most of my working life and knew absolutely my rights and responsibilities.
I enjoyed telling him to shove that idea up his bottom & then tell him that since he had stipulated that this training was mandatory he could organise another session just for me once I returned from my annual leave. Which he did because he had to.

I'd love to glide on my own - went up once with my mum, but Id definitely pay to do that.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 20 Mar 2012, 8:32, closed)