Hi everyone. I'm that guy who made the post about the new kid being fired recently (I'm sorry I missed replying to alot of you, life became hectic as it tends to do)
Anyways, I still work for that company. Unrelated to the previous post, the company has taken to the fad of incorporating many digital training materials for us to watch and then sign off on. These vary from “training” materials about being safe during the hot times of the year (drink water, rest often, etc) to actual training materials such as forklift safety presentations and things like that.
They've placed several tablets in our main break room, and had us create accounts for these tablets using our employee Id numbers. We are meant to use these tablets to sign into some app (I forget the name, I can check tomorrow) and watch these videos, take these little tests, and sign off stating that we did those things, thus completing the training.
Personally I think that these digital training materials are silly and inefficient anyways… Many people, myself included, don't even pay attention to the videos and simply answer the questions by process of elimination, most times, as most of the tests are of the multiple choice variety.
Anyhow, I got sidetracked there. My UC instructed me to check my profile today, and so I did. There I saw 27 different training materials, each with a projected duration of about 1 hour.
–important notes before you read the next paragraph: I walk to work everyday, and the distance is just over one mile each way. When it's very hot, like it has been lately, I will leave very early and arrive about 45 minutes early, to allow time to change into my work gear and cool off/relax. I'll generally just hang out in the break area and browse reddit 🙂 off the clock, of course. Since I don't drive to work, naturally I pack a lunch and just eat in the break area, or outside if it's nice. So this means I spend my 30 minute meal break inside the plant, but again off the clock.
So after I realized there was roughly 27 hours worth of training materials they expected me to process, I asked my UC when he'd like to pull me off the floor to do this. I was thinking we'd do maybe an hour toward the end of my shift, a couple times a week until the pile was sorted. I won't waste time rehashing the conversation further, but they genuinely expect me to use the early arrival time and my meal break to process these materials. In other words, MY time.
How do I phrase telling my UC that these training materials and the scheduling of them is a matter that needs to be handled on company time, and not my personal time? I mean sure, that sentence there sounds alright but maybe one of you has a better way of putting things. I do like this job, in fact this is the first “real” red flag I personally have encountered.