Rant about onboarding

[kray]

Started a job for a consulting company, and the onboarding process took a  fucking  week. Why are we doing training on outlook and things to take common sense. Why can’t they train us on actual things like being more confident in a job, or strengthening weaknesses in communication skills? 

[Yarco]

Most people are dumb and require it. You're probably the exception.

It's easier to standardize everything and make certain that everyone gets all the basics upfront, rather than getting hundreds of questions about how to do stuff for weeks down the road once they start working.

If you cover the basics, then people can hit the ground working and actually start working with minimal supervision.

Especially if you're working on commission, they don't care if you have confidence or good communication. The good people who already have those skills will rise to the top, and the rest will fail to hit quotas and get demoralized until they quit, or are fired.

For larger companies it's easier to just churn through people en masse and pick out the promising ones, as opposed to trying to train up a dud.

Some of it is also just corporate bloat and bureaucracy. I had one office job that made me watch probably 10 hours a year of the same videos on health and safety, workplace harassments, safe lifting, fire safety, WHMIS/OSHA/MSDS, etc and then do quizzes about them on company time.