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Rant about onboarding

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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? 

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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.

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Embrace the training, you may learn something new and stop whining about it Be grateful that you got the job. Plenty of people are struggling to find jobs for months (even years) and we are talking about qualified people. 

If shit like that is what it takes to keep an income then you do that until you've figured out how to be the sole provider of your own income without needing to be an employee. It's what all of us have to go through who are employed by large companies. 

Most stage orange companies don't really care about your professional growth other than to make you a more efficient money maker or money saver. They don't care about your personal level of development, although they may seem like they do. Individual growth is an individual responsibility that happens behind the scenes. It all comes down to "how to make employees better cogs to make us more $$$"

Btw you'd be surprised how many people don't know how to use Outlook for anything other than sending and reading emails. 

Edited by Michael569

“If you find yourself acting to impress others, or avoiding action out of fear of what they might think, you have left the path.” ― Epictetus

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