Time rips by, neither goose nor the gander fly...

As I said, I was in training to today. We had several different blocks of training, only one of which was even remotely informative and interesting.

On in particular was really bad, becuase of the instructor. He certainly knew his topic, but OH was he arrogant and an very bad teacher. He basically read everything from a PowerPoint presentation, that, by the way, he didn't write, but he got it in Arizona when he was there on a conference on this subject. (Sending morons like him allthe way to Arizona...yeah,it's no wonder we have no money).

So he's reading off the presentation, jsut basically word for word, and he's making mistakes all over the place and I'm convinced he had no idea he made them. Examples:

1) the word was "Hyperthermia - extremely high body temperature". he reads it as "hyPOthermia" which is actually the total opposite.

2) the word "Hypoglycemic" was on the screen, which he pronounced as "hypogly-sick", missing one syllable entirely.

3) the phrase was "have them sit on thier side", meaning have the person sit on their side, not lay on thier stomach. But he read it as "have someone sit on thier side", meaning to have someone else sit beside them.

4) but the best of the day was when the screen read "delusions of grandeur" and he pronounced it "delusions of gander". I did actually have to chuckle out loud at that, which prompted the co-worker sitting next to me to look at me and laugh, cause she too knew what he said. But on the upside, we had a running joke for the day: You're crazy! Are you having delusions of ganders? Are you hallucinating ducks and other waterfowl?

He said these things, and kept going without a pause. Either he didn't want to acknowledge his mistakes (possible) or he just didn't know that he had made them....which is probably more likely.

And it wasn't just the mispronounciations. As I said, he just read from the screen. Like WE couldn't do that for ourselves. And then, when he had handed out the 10 question test, #8 asked us for "4 behavioral characteristics" and #9 asked us for "2 behavioral cues". As we went over the test, the answers he read out for #8 were PHYSICAL characateristics. We tried to stop him and explain the problem. His only interest was in getting through it and getting out of there, so he basically ignored us.

And to think, that particular individual, due to his position, is making close to, if not more than, double what I am. And yet he does all this. And again, I say, it's not wonder we don't ever have money for stuff when we're wasting it on conventions and salaries for jokers like him.

POLT Listening to "Whoo-Hoo" by The 5.6.7.8.'s

Beauty will fade, but not goodness. - Filipino proverb