Why am I shaking?
May. 3rd, 2006 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
herveusMy employer requires me to partake of Ethics Training, and they seem to add something new each year. In principle, it's a reasonable idea. In execution...
We are supposed to take the training on-line, via a new "Learning & Development" web site. The first thing the web site tells me is:
Wonderful. I assiduously avoid Internet Exploiter in favor of Firefox. I also might want to make use of the web site from home, particularly if I am taking advantage of the site for personal development. I use Macs at home.
Meanwhile, I get an email with "FAQs" about the training. Question number two is "After I click on the Ethics course...a blank window comes up and the course does not appear to be loading?" (yeah, that declarative statement is presented with a question mark) The "answer" is "disable your popup blockers". Wonderful. Thanks for being a well mannered product. Hah!
OK. Forewarned is forearmed.
I go there and click on the course, and, surprise, Firefox tells me that it was suppressing an attempt to pop up a window. I allow the popup.
Naturally, the whatever-it-is wants a window with no menus or tool bars. Bad application. No biscuit. There's a "get started" button, and (surprise!) it pops up yet another window, into which is loaded something chunky (probably a flash thingy).
OK. Now we are past the technical crap and on to the content.
They set up a situation, and play it out four different ways. Of course, the fourth script is the only one that is "ethically sound", and it's dead obvious. I am then charged to rank the four in order of the quality of the ethical decisions. Good, poor, worse, worst.
Oh, and the presentation of the (so-called) clips is MST2K-ish without the extra commentary. You know, a row of theater chair backs with three seats occupied.
I found the presentation so annoying...I'm still shaking with left-over adrenaline (and I've not had an excessive amount of caffeine today). "Puerile" comes to mind to describe the tone and production values.
I suppose the presentation might be amusing to some, but I found it to be incredibly insulting. Oh, I almost forgot: in the first clip, the players are "Joe" and "Stephen". The person playing "Stephen" didn't look at all like a "Stephen". I don't think of that name as one I'd expect to find borne by a woman. At least I get to charge an hour of my time for this tripe.
We are supposed to take the training on-line, via a new "Learning & Development" web site. The first thing the web site tells me is:
The browser you are using is currently not supported. Browsers which are supported by Aspen are Microsoft Internet Explorer V5.0 and above. These browsers are supported only on the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems.
Wonderful. I assiduously avoid Internet Exploiter in favor of Firefox. I also might want to make use of the web site from home, particularly if I am taking advantage of the site for personal development. I use Macs at home.
Meanwhile, I get an email with "FAQs" about the training. Question number two is "After I click on the Ethics course...a blank window comes up and the course does not appear to be loading?" (yeah, that declarative statement is presented with a question mark) The "answer" is "disable your popup blockers". Wonderful. Thanks for being a well mannered product. Hah!
OK. Forewarned is forearmed.
I go there and click on the course, and, surprise, Firefox tells me that it was suppressing an attempt to pop up a window. I allow the popup.
Naturally, the whatever-it-is wants a window with no menus or tool bars. Bad application. No biscuit. There's a "get started" button, and (surprise!) it pops up yet another window, into which is loaded something chunky (probably a flash thingy).
OK. Now we are past the technical crap and on to the content.
They set up a situation, and play it out four different ways. Of course, the fourth script is the only one that is "ethically sound", and it's dead obvious. I am then charged to rank the four in order of the quality of the ethical decisions. Good, poor, worse, worst.
Oh, and the presentation of the (so-called) clips is MST2K-ish without the extra commentary. You know, a row of theater chair backs with three seats occupied.
I found the presentation so annoying...I'm still shaking with left-over adrenaline (and I've not had an excessive amount of caffeine today). "Puerile" comes to mind to describe the tone and production values.
I suppose the presentation might be amusing to some, but I found it to be incredibly insulting. Oh, I almost forgot: in the first clip, the players are "Joe" and "Stephen". The person playing "Stephen" didn't look at all like a "Stephen". I don't think of that name as one I'd expect to find borne by a woman. At least I get to charge an hour of my time for this tripe.
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Date: 2006-05-03 05:09 pm (UTC)BTW, I think you mean MST3Kish. MST2K is soooooo last century.:^P
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Date: 2006-05-03 09:34 pm (UTC)Its all on line and then there is a little test at the end to make sure you have been paying attention.... Except that unless you are currently dead you would have a hard time failing the test....
Its so insulting if they don't want anyone to fail why bother setting the test in the first place. If an auditor took one look at the test they would see it for what it is and tell the company to try again.
Still as you says its time that I can say I was doing stuff that I have to do when I am actually getting my project back on schedule. ;-)
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Date: 2006-05-04 05:16 am (UTC)