Firm mandatory training on :
-competition law
-data privacy
-complaint handling
-how to deliver staff performance reviews
...etc.
-competition law
-data privacy
-complaint handling
-how to deliver staff performance reviews
...etc.
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Workplace woes - The most dullest courses in the world ever.
- Thread starter MissGull
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tinycowboy
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Can't agree with this. Donoghue v Stephenson? Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company? Love these guys.......
Doctor Crawley
Active member
ADR
A full five days of hell.
A full five days of hell.
Gullflyinghigh
Registered User
- Apr 23, 2012
- 4,279
Forget bad courses, surely the worst experiences are where some of the 'higher ups' get as many people into a room as they can and tell them why everything is awesome (but it could be better, of course), with some incredibly unconvincing 'we're all friends here!' dialogue. Happily, they do usually sod off again for another year or two afterwards but my god it's excrutiating.
Never motivating, always patronising and a painful waste of time.
Oh, as a special mention, there is a special level of hell reserved for anyone that runs a course that requires, at some point, everyone to split into groups with a flipchart and pen.
Never motivating, always patronising and a painful waste of time.
Oh, as a special mention, there is a special level of hell reserved for anyone that runs a course that requires, at some point, everyone to split into groups with a flipchart and pen.
Publius Ovidius
Well-known member
Risk management......
Ah risk management in the change process.....marvellous scenes
MissGull
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- Apr 1, 2013
- 1,994
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- #27
At least with that you can switch off all together and there's someone in the group who will come up with all the right answers. As long as you are first to say...'who wants to write?' which guarantees you don't have to write.
I had a recent team building exercise that involved cutting sticking, glitter and pipe cleaners to demonstrate a key competency....now that IS hell.
Gullflyinghigh
Registered User
- Apr 23, 2012
- 4,279
Ah, but have you ever had to use teamwork to create a free standing model of a horse using just an A4 piece of paper and one hand from each participant?
tinycowboy
Well-known member
Did I get a thumbs down for misspelling Stevenson, or for giving a massive shout-out to the cases that established English tort law and contract law respectively? I defy anybody not to enjoy the former - involves an Italian ice cream parlour, a snail and a bottle of ginger beer.
tinycowboy
Well-known member
Sounds like a missed opportunity. It's a great case. Stevenson sadly died in a lunatic asylum.
HantsSeagull
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time management.........oh the irony!
Goring Gull
New member
Anything with fecking role play. It's bad enough being sent on the course even worse when you have to look interested and get involved - I for one can guarantee that bollocking someone in a roleplay is nothing like in real life.
Worthingite
Sexy Pete... :D
I want to hear the story now!!!!
tinycowboy
Well-known member
Ok Worthingite - just for you! Edited from Wikipedia:
On the evening of Sunday 26 August 1928, during the Glasgow Trades Holiday, May Donoghue, a Glasweigan divorcee in her thirties, took a train to Paisley, Renfrewshire, located seven miles west of Glasgow, where she went to the Wellmeadow Café. At approximately 20:50 a friend, who may have travelled with Donoghue, was with her and ordered a pear and ice for herself and a Scotsman ice cream float, a mix of ice cream and ginger beer, for Donoghue. The owner of the café, Francis Minghella, brought over a tumbler of ice cream and poured ginger beer on it from a brown and opaque bottle labelled "D. Stevenson, Glen Lane, Paisley". Donoghue drank some of the ice cream float. However, when Donoghue's friend poured the remaining ginger beer into the tumbler, a decomposed snail also floated out of the bottle. Donoghue claimed that she felt ill from this sight, complaining of abdominal pain. According to her later statements of facts, she was required to consult a doctor on 29 August and was admitted to Glasgow Royal Infirmary for "emergency treatment" on 16 September. She was subsequently diagnosed with severe gastroenteritis and shock.
The ginger beer had been manufactured by David Stevenson, who ran a company named after his identically-named father and produced both ginger beer and lemonade at 11 and 12 Glen Lane, Paisley, less than a mile away from the Wellmeadow Café. The contact details for the ginger beer manufacturer were on the bottle label and recorded by Donoghue's friend.
Donoghue sued Stevenson. The court decided against Stevenson, and thereby established the modern legal concept of negligence.
Daffy Duck
Stop bloody moaning!
Definitely the old "Health and Safety in the Workplace".
A whole afternoon of boring tedium for what is, after all, just common sense.
But the best of all was when our new manager decided to get us all together to give us a pep talk about the company's new message statement.
She insisted on using the words "our special purpose". She'd obviously never watched Steve Martin's film, The Jerk.
All we could do after those words were uttered each time was crease up with laughter. Don't think she was impressed.
A whole afternoon of boring tedium for what is, after all, just common sense.
But the best of all was when our new manager decided to get us all together to give us a pep talk about the company's new message statement.
She insisted on using the words "our special purpose". She'd obviously never watched Steve Martin's film, The Jerk.
All we could do after those words were uttered each time was crease up with laughter. Don't think she was impressed.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Ah. You misunderstand. I love a bit of Case Law as much as the next man. It's the rules regarding incorporation, what defines a quorum, filing days after year end etc......zzzzzzzz
Cian
Well-known member
My building site SafePass is expiring in a few weeks
I've had to be on ONE "building site" since I last renewed it and considering it was a completed shopping centre right down to the car park plants being planted, I didn't really feel like the full day of tedium in a hotel with a bunch of builders was worth it. But I've been told I need to renew it...
I've had to be on ONE "building site" since I last renewed it and considering it was a completed shopping centre right down to the car park plants being planted, I didn't really feel like the full day of tedium in a hotel with a bunch of builders was worth it. But I've been told I need to renew it...