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[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Tim: "wassup bitch, want to fuck?"

Trainer: Can anyone tell what Tim did wrong here?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

He was considerate enough to ask the co-worker if she was well and asked for explicit content before engaging in sexual activities with her. Looks fine to me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I had a training video once that had some pretty hilarious examples. In it the guy just said "Sleep with me or you're fired."

My absolute favorite though was one where an Asian guy is trying to recruit coworkers for his basketball game and says, to the black guy, "Hey Jamal, you've got leaps." A++ writing, highly recommended.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I see nothing wrong with example #2 if Jamaal's got hops. Am I in the wrong?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

If I recall correctly, it was the first time the two characters had met and they were assuming Jamal had leaps because he was black.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Tim was an absolute gent. A classy motherfucker, even

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

sometimes the complaints will be false

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A recent one I watched started with 10minutes bad, fake reality TV scenes of an employee stealing from his company. It was hilarious and fun. I also appreciated the exact details about how he stole money. I did get confused however when 250k apparently got him a house, a ship and a new car.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The one that prompted me to post this was a very thinly veiled attempt at saying that higher ups make mistakes unknowingly and that inherent biases aren't a thing. The bitch boss in the video should be fired for discrimination, instead at the end she gives a lecture about how she appreciates the employees' response and how she didn't think what she did could be perceived as discriminatory.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Nothing like a good ol 'thank you' and maybe a pizza for busting your ass and working OT /s

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I work from home incorporate IT but I still have to do training on how to pick up heavy boxes.

Even when I was in the office the heaviest thing I tended to pick up was a toner cartridge.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

IT is definitely a job that has to know how to pick up heavy objects. I have a friend who was working as a consultant configuring corporate telephony systems. One time, he showed up to an install that was running a bit behind schedule. He stepped in to help finish the server room set up and ended up permanently damaging his back.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Unless you're working in a DC or service desk you ain't lifting shit in most tech jobs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

It's a crazy vast field. Due to the uptake of the cloud this is becoming way less common.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure the company is US based

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What. How do you not know what country your contract was signed in?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Companies have to follow employment law in the country you're in. But American companies often have to do local stuff like training videos as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I worked for an American company in Europe, but I asked because at least the labor laws in my country required they showed me box lifting training too.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just want you to know that those of us who make these things for a living hate them too. By the time the stakeholders gets done with their "input" all the cool shit we wanted to do to make them tolerable and maybe even fun is out the window.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

There’s a certain level of cheese that makes it entertaining. Some of the actors who play up bad behavior are hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The problem with training videos is that the people making them have no idea what they're doing. I feel like training videos are very helpful but they're very boring and if companies would actually make them enjoyable and entertaining to wash people might learn something from them. But when you have a bunch of suits that have never actually worked anywhere in their life make these things. This is what happens.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Counterpoint: I prefer straightforward no-fuss training. My employer tries to make their corporate training interactive and fun but it doubles the time to complete them. A 45 minute training could've been cut down to 20 minutes if they removed all the fancy animations, videos, and "games".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I think it often comes down to learning styles. It really sucks because there is no one size fits all. I think most "trainings" would actually be better served as a long email that I can also reference later as needed, but I also struggle to focus in meeting and such. Other people are better at focusing in the moment and would never read a long email in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I'm convinced that big corporations contract it out to the cheapest "production" company that they can find, and they only offer the training so that they can say that they did to shield themselves from potential liability.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

I have skipped through every single mandatory interactive training thing I've ever been assigned and passed the quiz at the end using basic common sense. Every time.

I swear it only exists for the bottom 1% of the workforce who are, in this day and age, are somehow dumb enough to still fall for email scams that have been around for longer than I have.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

as a chronic migraine sufferer, the first and last ones are the same picture

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are good training videos, like these soldering lessons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIT4ra6Mo0s

Or the infamous forklift driver Klaus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJdCJMyBi5I

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

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Types of Headache

Migraine [marked red around the eye]

Hypertension [marked red in the back side of the head]

Stress [Marked red in the forehead and in the back of the ears]

Corporate training videos [Marked red in the full head]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Don't like these either, but it's a nice break from being on my feet all day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

So much bitching and whining for an hour of easy pay.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The only good one I've seen is the Krusty Krab Training Video.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The anti-union videos are pure propaganda and should be illegal.

Though, some training videos are good actually. Two examples:

German forklift safety video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cr7F-oLU84

Wendy's "hot drinks"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXUuogWge5Q

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=_Cr7F-oLU84

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=qXUuogWge5Q

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Even new ones feel like they're on a CRT monitor

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Surprised to see this on a forum like lemmy considering the average techni al level of the average user here.

Just ask ChatGPT what you can do to trick your browser into manipulating the speed of that playback. Or more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There was one years ago I had where all you needed was to type course.pass(true) into the console.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah, these I had one where I found a stored variable indicating whether the current video had been successfully completed lol.

The most recent I found had a TON of obfuscation to make it more difficult. There were checks making sure the video didn't finish in less time than the duration of the video, and another that checked to see if your account was logged in with more than one browser, and wouldn't play videos until you closed them all.

Was still able to change the duration variable to be '.1*(videoLength)' and set the multiple instance variable to false so I could blow through them all at like 10x speed simultaneously, but they made me work for it. All of this stuff was buried in tons of what I assume was nonsense code.