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companies investing in training is real. Be it pushing for certification, mooc, internal training credit. All of that was part of my review for instance. It d

companies investing in training is real. Be it pushing for certification, mooc, internal training credit. All of that was part of my review for instance. It does work.

Nursie 5y ago
Ugh, reviews, another part of employee life I haven't missed! That stuff re: training was not something that was part of my life as a perm worker, in the UK or Australia. The companies certainly liked to pay lip-service to employee development, but I didn't see much evidence of it actually happening.
- LanceH 5y ago
  One of the things I enjoy about contracting is that instead of watching all the videos on harassment and whatever, I usually just have to sign a code of conduct. Those corporate videos are soul crushing. I guess the exception was one quiz about bribery I had to take at IBM. It asked me what I would do if I were offered a cook to go with my lodgings where I was staying during an engagement. This woke me up to the possibilities of bribery I didn't know people were getting. I'm not exactly looking for bribes, but my the hypotheticals had me thinking way too small.
  - Nursie 5y ago
    Actually you raise a good point - I also did a short bribery and corruption self-driven training thing at IBM, and that one was at least interesting. The “Active Shooter” one at JPMC was somewhat sobering.
    - LanceH 5y ago
      I would accept a cook, btw, if anyone out there is bribing :)
- blaser-waffle 5y ago
  Same. Heard much discussion about it at every job, but in terms of actual time or dollars -- nah.
- dopidopHN 5y ago
  I received quality training on framework, language and protocols by coworker of that company. Those people spend a good 20% of their time doing that for clients anyway, so they are both comfortable doing it and I thougt it was decent dive ( modules span 20-30 hours ) I was not referring to conplicance trainings. Those, of course you won’t learn a thing.

companies investing in training is real. Be it pushing for certification, mooc, internal training credit. All of that was part of my review for instance. It does work.

Nursie 5y ago

Ugh, reviews, another part of employee life I haven't missed! That stuff re: training was not something that was part of my life as a perm worker, in the UK or Australia. The companies certainly liked to pay lip-service to employee development, but I didn't see much evidence of it actually happening.

LanceH 5y ago
One of the things I enjoy about contracting is that instead of watching all the videos on harassment and whatever, I usually just have to sign a code of conduct. Those corporate videos are soul crushing. I guess the exception was one quiz about bribery I had to take at IBM. It asked me what I would do if I were offered a cook to go with my lodgings where I was staying during an engagement. This woke me up to the possibilities of bribery I didn't know people were getting. I'm not exactly looking for bribes, but my the hypotheticals had me thinking way too small.
- Nursie 5y ago
  Actually you raise a good point - I also did a short bribery and corruption self-driven training thing at IBM, and that one was at least interesting. The “Active Shooter” one at JPMC was somewhat sobering.
  - LanceH 5y ago
    I would accept a cook, btw, if anyone out there is bribing :)
blaser-waffle 5y ago
Same. Heard much discussion about it at every job, but in terms of actual time or dollars -- nah.
dopidopHN 5y ago
I received quality training on framework, language and protocols by coworker of that company. Those people spend a good 20% of their time doing that for clients anyway, so they are both comfortable doing it and I thougt it was decent dive ( modules span 20-30 hours ) I was not referring to conplicance trainings. Those, of course you won’t learn a thing.