I just spent possibly the most bored eight and a half hours of my life. This supposedly part-time job I've accepted is full time training this week. The trainer seems to think we're all middle school students who need to be shushed every five minutes and has us make posters with the important points from a couple of pages. We spent most of the time taking turns reading paragraphs around the room! ACK!!!! I'm going to scream if I have to take much more of this.
I'm not in middle school! I'm an adult. I expect to be treated as such. If you're smart enough to finish one of the little "review quizes" ahead of the rest of the group you can't even read a book. They expect you to read the manual some more. As if reading it myself, having it read at me, taking a quiz about it, and then making a poster about it wasn't enough.
And to think I'm giving up my favorite part of my real job for a week for this. I can't do graphics all week because training goes until 4:30 p.m., I have to start graphics at 3:00 p.m. So, no graphics for me this week. Keva was kind enough to take three of the shifts for me, and my boss is taking the other two.
Are you sick of me ranting yet? It occurred to me a number of times throughout the day that if I had a Sidekick I could be blogging "under the table" and be considerably less bored! Unfortunately I don't have that kind of money right now. I also know why most customer service people seem so clueless. They really are! I don't know how most of the group graduated high school! OK, maybe that's an exageration, but not by much.
And a sentence that people that know me would find normal, but people who don't would find strange.......
My dad's coming home from India tonight. He was maybe going to be stuck in Delhi, but I haven't heard anything so I'm assuming that he's on his way home.
Comments (3)
Work sucks!! You know, I think I've gotten so spoiled by working in TV, that I can't imagine ever working somewhere else. Nothing even comes close.
I continue to plot the blooper reel. :D
Posted by Synergy | January 20, 2003 9:09 PM
Posted on January 20, 2003 21:09
Training like that is so desperately boring. And I'm constantly being shocked by the low expectations and insultingly low standards amongst my fellow customer service people. So I can totally sympathize. Hopefully it will get better. Try what I did - blog entries in a paper journal and then type them up at night. I also wrote countless redesigns of code on scraps of paper. Never actually did them, but it cut down the boredom. And coding is less obvious than doodling. :)
Posted by Cis | January 23, 2003 7:57 AM
Posted on January 23, 2003 07:57
Wait, when did you switch to Movable Type! I just realized the difference in the comments. EXCELLENT. Great job switching the blog over. :)
Posted by Cis | January 23, 2003 7:59 AM
Posted on January 23, 2003 07:59