Oh Lord, shoot me now, please. I’m on a break from a training session that is about on par, stupidity-wise, with most of the internal training around here.

Example:

Student: “I’m lost. What page are we on in the book?”

Instructor: “Page two.”

Now, to be fair, the stupid part isn’t that the student was lost by Page 2. No, it’s that we were only on Page 2 after 45 minutes!

The trainer is so bad that I want to strangle her, which is nothing new since I’ve felt that way about her ever since she trained me as a new hire 3.5 years ago. Some things improve with age … and some don’t.

I’m so bored that I’m asking stupid questions now, just to make it interesting, stuff like “…and how would I delete that?” right after she’s indicated the “delete” icon and said we can delete something. And of course answering that simple question first flummoxed her and then took her nearly five minutes to demonstrate.

Only 74 more PowerPoint slides to go…