Training Woes

Sam_Charette · Post by **Sam_Charette** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:21 am

Ugh...

I've been training in Peoplesoft all week, and it's not been fun. I've been sleeping poorly, most of the training is a refresher for me, and there's LOTS of repetition. Staying awake was not fun. Worst of all, the guy sitting in front of me was farting up to 10 times a day.

Yesterday I nearly lost it. We were discussing the component buffer, and how it must be flushed in order to do certain things (flushing is just clearing it. It's a common computer term).

Why is that important? Well, after the week of all of that, the guy in front of me leans to the left and farts. He then, immediately after, leans and farts again. (luckily it's not a smeller... it's just audible to everyone in the room).

The guy next to me and I look at each other and chuckle.

Then, not even 30 second later, the farter asks "So why didn't we flush that one?"

I nearly lost it! I was laughing as hard as I could wthout making a scene.

Fatigue, disinterest, too much coca-cola all made for a very interesting last day of training. I think I'm still loopy from it.

Anyone else love training as much as I do?

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 11:45 am

*shudder* No. HATE the training I've gone through. I used to have a job scoring student essay tests, you see. Each and every standardized test we scored had its own training day, most of which were the same as before except perhaps customized to the particular test's prompt. Then we had to score a number of them correctly in order to pass and be able to score tests for real. Every time.

I always passed, and I could usually get a handle on it in half the time they allowed. Don't get me wrong, I don't recommend that the cut the time in half....you DO want to be sure people are qualified to test correctly, but at the same time it's mind bogglingly tedious.

Except for the first time, when I woke up an hour late and had to get there in a snowstorm and pray they'd still let me take the test to pass. That was nightmarish.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:30 pm

Luckily not much training lately.

But.... meetings....

Mon Ami · Post by **Mon Ami** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:14 pm

I thankfully never had a bad training experience...although the first real job I had that was not part time was total hell

Laundromatcomics · Post by **Laundromatcomics** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:39 pm

I had to do training for a company that outsourced tech support. I was on their Priceline project. They hire just about anyone, and the pay was good. It's hard being computer-literate in a room full of people who may have been meeting them for the first time. I spent a lot of time just sitting there screwing around as the others kept asking questions about the same topics over, and over, and over again. Eight hours a day for two weeks. I nearly went mad.

Rock_dash · Post by **Rock_dash** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:48 pm

laundromatcomics wrote:I had to do training for a company that outsourced tech support. I was on their Priceline project. They hire just about anyone, and the pay was good. It's hard being computer-literate in a room full of people who may have been meeting them for the first time. I spent a lot of time just sitting there screwing around as the others kept asking questions about the same topics over, and over, and over again. Eight hours a day for two weeks. I nearly went mad.

Sounds awesome to me.

"...and that is how you save a file."

"You sure you got it this time, Tad?"

"Ye...n...maybe..."

"Better ask again, just to be safe. *goes back to playing Tetris while Tad asks*

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:01 pm

Training sucks...I hate it when I'm "the new chick" at work. Luckily, with this job, I didn't really have any training! Wohoo!

Sam_Charette · Post by **Sam_Charette** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:04 pm

Ugh... I know the feeling about understanding the concepts too quickly. Peoplesoft training tends to have activities you do between lectures which, really, are little more than exercises in typing. One coworker and I would be done, literally, within minutes of starting because there was so little to do, whereas other coworkers would take up to a half an hour to do the same thing.

And we're only talking about typing maybe 20 lines from a book. No thought involved... just type what they tell you to type, where they tell you to type it, and you're done. And they take a half an hour to do it, and sometimes couldn't complete it without help from the teacher.

I mean what the hell?!? I just don't get some people...

Laundromatcomics · Post by **Laundromatcomics** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:06 pm

The computers we were using were on a separate "training" server, so there were a lot of things we couldn't do. I spent the whole time doodling. I think that's a lot of what got me here.

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 1:30 am

laundromatcomics wrote:I had to do training for a company that outsourced tech support. I was on their Priceline project. They hire just about anyone, and the pay was good. It's hard being computer-literate in a room full of people who may have been meeting them for the first time. I spent a lot of time just sitting there screwing around as the others kept asking questions about the same topics over, and over, and over again. Eight hours a day for two weeks. I nearly went mad.

This sounds like my brief time spent in college.

Edit:

Sam_Charette wrote:Ugh... I know the feeling about understanding the concepts too quickly. Peoplesoft training tends to have activities you do between lectures which, really, are little more than exercises in typing. One coworker and I would be done, literally, within minutes of starting because there was so little to do, whereas other coworkers would take up to a half an hour to do the same thing.

And we're only talking about typing maybe 20 lines from a book. No thought involved... just type what they tell you to type, where they tell you to type it, and you're done. And they take a half an hour to do it, and sometimes couldn't complete it without help from the teacher.

I mean what the hell?!? I just don't get some people...

So does this.

And people wondered why I dropped out.