Crappy Training Videos

[Cosmic Cat]

When Sears merged with K-mart to make what the employees at my store call "Sears Mart" (not their real name, obviously) everyone who worked for Sears Mart had to sit through this awful six hour training session about the merger and watch this incredibly BORING video which had nothing to do with the merger, or much of anything. It was one of those videos about nothing. However, there was one amusing moment. One portion of the video showed the "good" and "bad" way to respond to the brainwashing session. The "bad" example went like this:

Girl #1: What do you do?
Girl #2: I'm in ISS and I hate my job! It's so boring! Every day I put up the signs, just to take them down again and put new ones up the next day!
Manager, walking by: It sounds like we have a couple of grump bunnies!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Grump Bunnies?!

Oh man.

If I was asked the "What do you do?" question, I think I would answer "The most thankless job on Earth."

[Imogene]

Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays!

[Caveat Emptor]

Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays!

Shoot! Beat me to it!

Give 'em the pickle!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Nothing personal Juwl, but it's time to kick your ass.

Yours too, Caveat Emptor, for mentioning the pickle.

[TNT]

From now on, whenever I have to fill out any form that asks for my occupation, I'm putting down, "Grump bunny."

My favorite training videos involve SCs calling in... and the customer service person gets all happy because it's yet another opportunity to bring sunshine to the customer's life.

I suppose that should be my attitude... and yet somehow, it isn't.

[Imogene]

Shoot! Beat me to it!

Let's see... something about 'great minds', and thinking... but that precludes me already...

Nothing personal Juwl, but it's time to kick your ass.

Oh, no, whatever will I do?

[Crosshair]

Don't forget to have your TSP reports turned in on time.

[Lace Neil Singer]

My favourite training video ever was the one shown to me on how to treat disabled people. It's unintentionally funny, plus all the examples use basic common sense so if you don't have that, you're not going to get it.

[Ringtail Z28]

I'm still searching for the godawful series of videos used by Target known as "The Target Real World" back in 2000, videos so pointless and annoying that almost no managers would subject their employees to them. Except of course, my manager. I'm sure they're up on the net somewhere with torture porn or something equally horrible.

[lordlundar]

Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays!

I take the Garfield approach to Mondays.

I declare open war against it.