I have heard so much about on-the-job training, but never had to do it until recently.
You would that when a new company comes on the market, which they do always, they want the best. They do anyway.
They put you through several levels of rigorous interviewing, pick through your credentials and experience with a fine toothcomb and chuck out anyone they think will pull down the standard of their work and the core values they represent on the market.
Then they mail out appointment letters, and barely forty-eight afters after you start work as a new staff an in-plant training is afoot.
You spend nearly all of your working day on your bum listening to a course facilitator contracted to put you through the wrenches of college learning once more, complete with handouts and ultimatums like "switch off your phones in class" and "do not disturb this class in anyway." There are even class reps.
Anyway, it does not matter that much. So long as the purpose of the training is achieved. The employer is happy he is getting his money's worth, the staff get to keep their jobs, and the facilitator smiles to the bank after executing one more contract.
