Finally arrived back in town after 3 days of going interstate for my training on some software that my company is using. The training was quite interesting, and for once, I actually understood what was being taught. Well, ‘taught’ is not quite the right word. You see, unlike a formal training centre, my training was conducted in a 3m x 6m meeting room of the software vendor. The table was barely big enough to fit the six of us. The instructor is done with the theory in the first 2 hours of the first day. And the rest of the course was just doing exercises.
They might as well, because the phones of the other trainees were constantly ringing. Everyone had their own laptop setup in the meeting room. It was as though all these people are so important to their companies that they can’t be left alone for 3 days, stuffed with five other people in a room and do the training. I felt so left out. Then one day my phone rang. I remembered myself thinking ‘Finally, I can feel my importance to the company. They can’t live without me.’ And then it turned out to be just a friend. How disappointing.
Frankly, it could have been done online. But who am I to complain when it is all paid for by the company? And talking about trip, it has to be one of the most eventful Tuesday morning I have had for…. like, ever.
