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meh. I'd be happy to sit in a chair and watch nonsensical videos for $100/hr any time you like.

kabdib 5y ago
Not when you have a deadline and your stuff is behind, you don't :-) Happily, it was better than that. Most of these courses were online, and you could just let the videos of actors working through scenarios run in the background and then answer some simple questions. The questions never varied and the correct answer was usually pretty obvious (e.g., don't pick any answer that includes hiding a body).
- mupuff1234 5y ago
  Also it's not like you can fail the test, it just keeps you on the question till you select the right answer.
  - mstipetic 5y ago
    Ffs
- lostlogin 5y ago
  > The questions never varied and the correct answer was usually pretty obvious Siemens ask different questions in reruns of end tests, vary the order the questions are in, and also ask questions you can’t answer from understanding the topic. Eg ‘what colour was the background of the graph demonstrating the effect?”
  - NullPrefix 5y ago
    >what colour was the background of the graph demonstrating the effect? Sounds like a bad test. You are not supposed to fill your head with details like what color shoes your teacher was wearing.
    - akhmatova 5y ago
      Again -- it's a test of obedience (and a CYA ritual for the company's owners). It's not supposed to impart useful information, otherwise make sense.
- HWR_14 5y ago
  If I have a deadline and stuff is behind, it's my job to tell my boss. It's their job to get an exception so I take the training after the deadline. Also probably their job to get some of my tasks reassigned.
lostlogin 5y ago
Watching company policy videos wears thin after about 2 minutes, but I wasn’t paid anything like $100/hr… My method was to open another browser tab, then you can play several at the same time. The next company I was at prevented that somehow. So I opened a few different web browsers. Then they broke that and also made each clip about 2 mins long and had loads of them, so you can’t even queue them up in one browser.
akhmatova 5y ago
It's not about the videos. The main point it enforces is that you're supposed to hold hour tongue as your company engages in a kinds of intrinsically abusive and unethical practices (as long as you, personally, are not breaking the law). Still sound like $100/hr of fun?

Not when you have a deadline and your stuff is behind, you don't :-) Happily, it was better than that. Most of these courses were online, and you could just let the videos of actors working through scenarios run in the background and then answer some simple questions. The questions never varied and the correct answer was usually pretty obvious (e.g., don't pick any answer that includes hiding a body).

mupuff1234 5y ago
Also it's not like you can fail the test, it just keeps you on the question till you select the right answer.
- mstipetic 5y ago
  Ffs
lostlogin 5y ago
> The questions never varied and the correct answer was usually pretty obvious Siemens ask different questions in reruns of end tests, vary the order the questions are in, and also ask questions you can’t answer from understanding the topic. Eg ‘what colour was the background of the graph demonstrating the effect?”
- NullPrefix 5y ago
  >what colour was the background of the graph demonstrating the effect? Sounds like a bad test. You are not supposed to fill your head with details like what color shoes your teacher was wearing.
  - akhmatova 5y ago
    Again -- it's a test of obedience (and a CYA ritual for the company's owners). It's not supposed to impart useful information, otherwise make sense.
HWR_14 5y ago
If I have a deadline and stuff is behind, it's my job to tell my boss. It's their job to get an exception so I take the training after the deadline. Also probably their job to get some of my tasks reassigned.

lostlogin 5y ago

Watching company policy videos wears thin after about 2 minutes, but I wasn’t paid anything like $100/hr… My method was to open another browser tab, then you can play several at the same time. The next company I was at prevented that somehow. So I opened a few different web browsers. Then they broke that and also made each clip about 2 mins long and had loads of them, so you can’t even queue them up in one browser.

akhmatova 5y ago

It's not about the videos. The main point it enforces is that you're supposed to hold hour tongue as your company engages in a kinds of intrinsically abusive and unethical practices (as long as you, personally, are not breaking the law). Still sound like $100/hr of fun?