I've been in training in a new role in the Civil Service for a couple of weeks. It's all being done remotely on Teams currently, there are around 20 of us and we're often put into smaller 'breakout rooms' for discussions which we then have to feedback to the group.
The actual role is a customer service based role involving daily telephony. However im finding that people are being a bit childish and ridiculous in the breakout rooms. They're refusing to participate/feedback to the group as the trainers often ask for a 'spokesperson to feed back.
It's a case of reading out a couple of andwers to the group on teams (and off camera) which takes around 20 seconds.
I heard one woman in the office say 'They're asking for a spokesperson and I'm flat out refusing' . I volunteered to do it.
This morning in another group one woman in our group just said 'Nope, it's not gonna be me.' . I volunteered again and I said to the group 'I don't mind doing it as it's really not a big deal, it's only reading out a couple of things."
I know the answer may be to refuse myself but it feels childish, or maybe the trainers should just nominate a person. I just think they should grow up a bit, they're in a role where they'll have to speak to people daily.