I spent a week learning to fly gliders with all the costs covered by my company
so I could "learn about the workload in a cockpit". I did have to take it as annual leave, but it was a price I was willing to pay.
Not all "motivational training" is crap.
( P-MONKE We're all fucked, Mon 19 Dec 2011, 18:24, 1 reply)

That one I'd go for
It's the being harangued by some tracksuit wearing dickhead who isn't happy about the way you've tied 4 plastic barrels together to get 28 feet across an ornamental pond that I'd object to.

I'd motivate him alright - he'd be very keen on changing out of his wet muddy tracksuit.
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