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Blogs > secret_lade > Ramblings of the depraved.....

The 'Contract' Training  

secret_lade 49F
14359 posts
6/11/2020 3:38 am
The 'Contract' Training

There is nothing more amazing, more scintillating, more inspired than a 90 minute skype training being led by the monotonic voice of our corporate HR representative.

It's the hearing equivalent to watching paint dry.

In the back of my mind, I was hearing... "Bueller? Beuller? Beauller?"

He was smart enough, by this call, to request the participants use the chat function for questions instead of asking them outright because the earlier calls, I'd heard, did not go well.

For someone who was supposed to be the expect on the subject matter, he had literally no answers.

But, I digress....

This is the man who 'requires' the assistants to do about 15 spreadsheets a week all collecting the same information. One report is actually for information from the PREVIOUS week.

Really??

That still necessary when four other reports are IN THE MOMENT collections of information?

Uh, yah.

Here's to a new day.... and my first solo Self Evaluation with Boss #2. Wish me luck.

secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
6/12/2020 12:28 am
    Quoting pagancountrygirl:
    A report for information from the previous week?
    Just give him last week's report. He'll never know the difference.
Each spreadsheet is collected by someone different and formatted differently... I've already complained multiple times.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
6/12/2020 12:26 am
    Quoting easy_going2014:
    Hi secret_lade

    I hope that your first solo self-evaluation with boss #2

    I just roll with the HR stuff

    can't get 2 crazy

    hmm

    be safe

    Jethro Tull - "Teacher"

    Well the dawn was coming
    Heard him ringing on my bell
    He said, my name's the teacher
    Oh that is what I call myself
    And I have a lesson
    That I must impart to you
    It's an old expression
    But I must insist it's true
    Jump up, look around
    Find yourself some fun
    No sense in sitting there hating everyone
    No man's an island and his castle isn't home
    The nest is for nothing when the bird has flown
It was much less nerve wracking than when I had to do them with Boss #1. He was terrible, a self evaluation is hard enough on its own without his critiquing. I'm so glad he retired.


pagancountrygirl 66F
Ask me for a photo
6466 posts
6/11/2020 5:53 pm

 A report for information from the previous week?
Just give him last week's report. He'll never know the difference.
Pagan
Hmmmm....I know I left that wand around here somewhere!


easy_going2014 57M
Ask me for a photo
14366 posts
6/11/2020 5:49 pm

 Hi secret_lade

I hope that your first solo self-evaluation with boss #2

I just roll with the HR stuff

can't get 2 crazy

hmm

be safe

Jethro Tull - "Teacher"

Well the dawn was coming
Heard him ringing on my bell
He said, my name's the teacher
Oh that is what I call myself
And I have a lesson
That I must impart to you
It's an old expression
But I must insist it's true
Jump up, look around
Find yourself some fun
No sense in sitting there hating everyone
No man's an island and his castle isn't home
The nest is for nothing when the bird has flown
To leave private messages, please use my confidential mailbox at my blog:

Good luck!!!


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
6/11/2020 3:13 pm
    Quoting jolielaide:
    the one report a week i was handing in to my boss so she could hand it in to her boss, never even made it to her boss because the computer system wasn't working, hasn't worked. what a shit waste of time.
Yep! I have several of those 'reports' I do as well. Busy work to make someone appear valuable.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
6/11/2020 3:10 pm
    Quoting  :
LOL You were probably the one who didn't have their phone on mute...


jolielaide 52F  
1754 posts
6/11/2020 2:48 pm

 the one report a week i was handing in to my boss so she could hand it in to her boss, never even made it to her boss because the computer system wasn't working, hasn't worked. what a shit waste of time.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
6/11/2020 2:22 pm
    Quoting hornywiser:
    It sounds like that 90 minutes lasted much longer lol , sorry you had to endure that.
In real world time, it was 90 minutes. In my mind, it was 9 hours.....


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
6/11/2020 2:20 pm
    Quoting citizen4722:
    Looks like the bosses have never had it better
You couldn't pay me enough to be a boss-type where I work. Good lord...


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
6/11/2020 2:18 pm
    Quoting pocogato12:
    15 identical spreadsheets- hmmm wonder who has to auditthose babies
Someone who is creating busy work for himself to make himself look valuable.... That's corporate for you.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
6/11/2020 2:16 pm
    Quoting keithcancook:
    Ugh! There is something very dispiriting here.

    blog on!
Having to listen to monotone man was dispiriting... LOL


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
6/11/2020 2:15 pm
    Quoting lindoboy100:
    Oh dear, I've got to do some of those sessions, as in present them. At least mine are technical based and I know my stuff. And if people dinnae unnerstaun whit ah'm sayin ah can aye blame it on ma accent!!

    Good luck with Mc2, hope it goes well!
Whatever you do, make sure you mute everyone before you start. Don't waste the first 15 minutes telling the stupid asshole who doesn't have their phone on mute to mute themselves. They are too stupid to do so. And, the self eval went well. Kudos!


lindoboy100 61M
23969 posts
6/11/2020 10:45 am

 Oh dear, I've got to do some of those sessions, as in present them. At least mine are technical based and I know my stuff. And if people dinnae unnerstaun whit ah'm sayin ah can aye blame it on ma accent!!

Good luck with Mc2, hope it goes well!


keithcancook 67M
18358 posts
6/11/2020 9:17 am

 Ugh! There is something very dispiriting here.

blog on!


pocogato12 71F  
37235 posts
6/11/2020 8:21 am

 15 identical spreadsheets- hmmm wonder who has to auditthose babies
(Virtual Symposium Group) use Virtual Symposium Group


citizen4722 66M  
74582 posts
6/11/2020 7:57 am

 Looks like the bosses have never had it better


hornywiser 64M  
8 posts
6/11/2020 7:47 am

 It sounds like that 90 minutes lasted much longer lol , sorry you had to endure that.


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