Training fun

My current employer has a set of required training courses that all employees have to take, ranging from the standard sexual harassment training to machine-specific courses. Not a terribly big deal, generally.

Except right now, when I’m working my way through a course on Internet Explorer — a course that has an expected time to finish of three and one half hours. I just learned what an “address bar” is, what a “link” is and what happens when I click on it, and how to resize and move a browser window around on my screen.

I think I can feel my brain dribbling out of my ears.

On the bright side, these courses at least allow you to turn off the audio narration, so I can just click through the steps as quickly as possible. Hopefully, this will allow me to finish in something less than the expected time.

Update: A quick clarification on one issue that was pointed out to me. The training sessions offer audio narration, but even when you turn that off, all steps must be followed before one can advance through the course; after the course, there is a quiz to ensure that the testee has retained the information given. While turning off the audio allowed me to progress at a far faster rate than I could have otherwise, I didn’t entirely skip or disregard the training. I also passed the quiz with flying colors — yay me!

Now that I’m done whining, it’s back to training, where I’m currently learning all about how to search for information on the ‘net via MSN Search and Yahoo!

Wheeeeeee!

(Of course, the really ironic part to all this is that it’s web based training. On how to use the web. Hilarity ensues.)