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Training is so infantilizing.

I'm generally unskilled and have only ever worked jobs where they hire people off the street. Given that any slouch, moron or ham-fist could be coming through their doors seeking employment, these corporations have to protect their asses from liability and the way they do this is by assuming every employee was born yesterday. I'm not a prideful person, but being plopped down in front of a VHS tape on safety or a dinky computer terminal to do some training module is humiliating. I feel like I'm being treated like a child because that is exactly how we treat children. I know I have no place to whine because this is exactly the life I asked for; if I wanted desperately to be given the benefit of the doubt and treated like a serious adult I probably would have made different moves. I just wanted to vent I guess. I…


I'm generally unskilled and have only ever worked jobs where they hire people off the street. Given that any slouch, moron or ham-fist could be coming through their doors seeking employment, these corporations have to protect their asses from liability and the way they do this is by assuming every employee was born yesterday. I'm not a prideful person, but being plopped down in front of a VHS tape on safety or a dinky computer terminal to do some training module is humiliating. I feel like I'm being treated like a child because that is exactly how we treat children. I know I have no place to whine because this is exactly the life I asked for; if I wanted desperately to be given the benefit of the doubt and treated like a serious adult I probably would have made different moves. I just wanted to vent I guess. I am so sick of sanitized corporate training media, of multiple-choice quizzes, of having common sense drilled into my skull over and over.

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