Omg
Our stupid work systems are adding to my stress level by sending me an email telling me if I don't complete past due trainings it will kick me out of the systems within now 6 days.
When I look at the trainings, it is for the introduction to a system that I've been working in since it's inception more than 6 years ago. It's a series of trainings that does not identify how long each block will take, cannot be at all skipped through, and must be physically manned to click "next" for each slide after a voice reads through the entirety of each slide. The 2nd one asks me if I want to pick up where I left off and when I say yes, it says 'congrats you completed'.
There is no contact information for me to say, "look, let's be practical here, I've literally been more than proficient in this system for more than 6 years, why am I being tapped to do exhaustive trainings that I clearly do not need, 6 years later?"
I'm so emotional right now, I want to shout "Lock me out of the systems. I dare you at this point. I actually dare you."
@Waitnwallflower I once had to renew my driver’s licence, but they wouldn’t accept the PDF from my insurance company on my phone (which an RCMP officer had recently said was fine). “It can’t be electronic; it has to be printed” was the rule, apparently.
I had an idea.
“Can I email it to you and then you print it?”
They said “yes”.
Is that absurd? Absolutely.
Got my licence.
Gotta think like they do. Compliance is all they value. Dumb-as-fuck compliance is still compliance. 🤦♂️🤣
@tantramar@Waitnwallflower I once sent a pdf to my financial guy that had my scanned signature on it in a few places. The pdf wasn’t flattened, or something, so they couldn’t see the signatures and I had to fix it.
In the course of the conversation, I was told that scanned signatures weren’t, strictly speaking, kosher.
I said, “so if I write my signature, scan it, and add it to the pdf, that’s wrong; but writing my signature on the document, scanning it, and sending as a pdf to you is okay?”
@tantramar@Waitnwallflower It depends on how thick-headed they are… I once went for an interview for a leadership position (within my organization) with numerous and varied leadership experiences under my belt. They seemed more focussed on whether I had taken a “leadership training” course 🙄
@tantramar@Waitnwallflower This was a board of education, so they aren’t going away. That said, there was a time when the organization had a really enlightened approach to leadership, and there were great things going on at the principal/department head level that inspired a lot of us to do great things in turn. Our enthusiasm transferred to the students, as well.
I suspect a lot of that was smothered during the reign of Mike Harris. His was the conservative government that chose a high school dropout for Minister of Education, John Snobelen. Snobelen’s approach was to “create a crisis” in education so they could shake things up. Cuts and reorganization made much of the aforementioned innovation and enthusiasm disappear, as people didn’t have time for it any more. A lot of really good department heads retired earlier than they would have. Real leadership was replaced by ladder-climbers, of the sort that values certificates over actual experience; and sticking to “the rules” over innovation.
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