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The company I work for hired a very dynamic professional trainer to come to our offices and provide training to managers and staff on discrimination and harassment. Trouble was few of the employees or managers had any interest in the topic and did not want to be there. They were forced to attend.
Many tried to get excused from the event by coming up with some half baked excuses but that did not work. They were given plenty of advance notice to arrange their work schedule.
So when they could not get excused from the training, they decided to take it out against the contract trainer. They left for long bathroom breaks, played with their smartphones and they would not participate verbally in the activities, class discussion, do the homework assignments or show any interest at all. The seminar leader did everything she could to make it interesting. I thought she was quite good, considering what she was facing.
So the HR staff, who put the whole thing on, was at wits end. What should have they done about the people who were totally unmotivated? (The CEO determined the training should be done but did not attend himself or did any of the top management, they were too busy.)
Why should anyone care when top management doesn't? We get a lot of management wanting something that they do not actually support the staff tasked with doing it. No support means management does not really care.
What a bunch of immature dolts. You're still getting paid. I used to look at these training seminar days as a field day. No mention by you of anyone returning to their desk concerned about their actual work, just making it difficult for this woman.
This isn't Burger King is it? As I said it will be noted and when layoff time comes, they will be the first to go.
Yeah, if they had an issue with the relevance of they training, they should have taken it up with the person requiring it and not been so rude to the presenter. That's just common decency and behaving as a professional.
Depends on policy, but they should, at the very least, get a warning and/or get marked down on their next eval. For me that would possibly mean no raise. They sound immature and unprofessional. I bet they needed the training the most!
This happens at my job......a few years back, those in administration started something called "All-Staff Training Day". It's basically an entire day of training sessions, and while there are many good points to it, I think it's fair to say that staff are forced to attend.
The company I work for hired a very dynamic professional trainer to come to our offices and provide training to managers and staff on discrimination and harassment. Trouble was few of the employees or managers had any interest in the topic and did not want to be there. They were forced to attend.
This is called cover your A** Training. In today's discrimination and harassment sue world, the company does it to protect themselves. They also know who was there, and what they did as there is always someone there that the company has keep records of such events. In the event that any employee does any form discrimination or harassment, the company can immediately discharge them without any other consideration or pay outs of money beyond current earned money. The employees were placed on notice with that class, so they would know the new rules they were to follow.
In fact if they want to get rid of an employee for cause, the reason is they refused to take this mandatory class. This makes it real easy to get rid of an employee, even if there is a union, etc.
When I worked for a major tire company they hired a "Training manager". Shortly after they hired her they told us we would have to take a quarterly "training class". They were all B.S. classes like "team building" and other nonsense that did not relate to the job I was doing.
The thing that got me was all the Monday - Friday staff workers were allowed to take their class during their normal working day. All the staff people on the 12 hour shifts were required to come in on their day off at 6am for the class. When you work a 12 and get very little sleep on your work days it is hard to give up a day you can sleep in a few hours in order to take a "team building" class.
Imagine the uproar if they told the m-f workers they had to come in at 6am on Saturday for training.
Worse yet; they made the guys working the night 12 hour shift stay over after working. It ended up being a 16 hour day for them. Of course they paid overtime for it but it sucked.
As a teacher we were (and those remaining still are) required to do mandatory training all the time. The required ones are for sexual harassment, abuse/neglect, homelessness and blood borne pathogens. The abuse one came into focus a couple months ago when an unpaid volunteer was arrested for sexual abuse (elementary school) committed at school. Every single employee in the system had to re-do the abuse training.
There's been what can only described as a witch hunt since the arrest to discover if any other staff members knew or suspected the abuse and didn't report it. So far they've come up empty.
In addition, at my (former) school every single staff meeting and department meeting turned into a training of some sort.
As OldTrader mentioned these trainings are a CYA for the employer. If an employee commits a violation the employer can just say that he or she was trained and the company can't be held responsible.
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