I have a new job. I don't like it very much, but the money's good and I desperately need it.
A part of the job involves going on training courses - which is fair enough. I'm working in an unfamiliar area and I have lots to learn: no problem with that.
But the language in the training materials makes me feel ill. It's not a fucking 'personal development journey'; I don't need to be 'reflective and mindful' - I need to learn how to do the job, do it competently and get paid. It's admin work, not psychiatry or woo-peddling.
Maybe I am just too old, but back in the days when I had more regular work (ie 9-5 in offices) I never had this sort of rubbish to deal with. I just did what I was asked to do, and if I didn't know how to do something I asked whoever was nearby and had been there longer than me. I have, admittedly, spent the past 15 years or so working freelance, or pretty much so, and nearly all those jobs have been about going and doing something and then sending an invoice. Is it always going to be like this if I ever want a well-paid job again?
AIBU?
To wonder if all this utter bollocks is simply part of the Proper Job market these days
SolidGoldBrass · 19/11/2014 09:45
I work in Marketing. For an American company. You've got to feel for me. 
think yourself lucky. I am a nurse and my latest training was in 'preventing terrorism' - I'll just add that to my list of jobs, shall I? 
Of course, we were trying to intercept their terrorist 'journey' 
We are no longer allowed to refer to the shop floor at work as "the shop floor".
No no. It's now "the service floor", because it's the place where all our "fantastic service happens!"
"It's complete shite" was, I believe, my poetic response when my manager first told me. And I still refuse to say it.
Some well paid arse actually got fucking paid to come up with that! No bloody wonder the company is tanking.
My gay, Jewish/ Jamaican, bipolar male friend was sent on a diversity training course to learn all about prejudice from a heterosexual white man in a suit.
I've been in the world of stakeholders, actioning, going forwards and break-out areas for so long they now sound vaguely normal to me.
My boss has started deep diving and I have no fucking clue what she means. Curated keeps popping up with alarming regularity too. Like curating something is cleverer than any other kind of, well, just being responsible for something, or selecting some things from a bunch of other things.
The best thing I heard recently was about a Knowledge Artisan. I shit you not. Honest to god.
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