I work in a large manufacturing facility that has multiple specialized departments. One of the higher ups thought it would be beneficial for each department to put together a presentation to educate everyone else on what their department does.
So every week we all have to stop what we are doing and sit through a presentation about what another department does. At the end there are questions to see if we were paying attention. Fine. Some of these were interesting, but as most of it doesn't apply to what I do, I found it really tedious and boring. They are also presented by random managers, so the quality of information presented varied a lot.
Now, our higher ups have scheduled a test that we all have to take based on these presentations. They gave us a “study guide” but the questions are super niche and specific. A lot of numbers and years, not just broad information. Honestly, I'm not even sure those in that department know exactly how many units of a specific product we sold the previous year. Or like, what's the oldest part number we still have in production. Or how much of the market share we have of a certain thing…etc.
I really want to boycott this test, I'm just not sure how yet. We don't know what metric it will be applied to, or what the consequences of this test are.
I would have to study after work, and it just feels like a waste of my time. I do my job well and have no problem taking time to better the skills that I need to do what I do.
I dunno, what do y'all think?