Late for work due to training - who is at fault?

[Scurrrt]

I attended workplace training this morning - plan was training would be 9am-11am and then I’d be back at work for 11:30 (I work in community and the first job back was pretty time sensitive).

Anyway during the training someone ripped a chunk out of a little foam thing and lobbed it behind the chairs. When the trainer asked for it back nobody knew where it was until it was soon found on the floor with a chunk ripped out of it. Nobody would admit to doing it. As a result the training ran over, I tried to say I had to be back at work and was told it’s highly suspicious when people are suddenly desperate to leave after such an incident!! I text work to say I was stuck at training and received a reply saying “you have to get there on time, short staffed, nobody else can go”. I showed text to trainer, she reluctantly let me go but said she’d be passing the incident on to the manager. I was 20 minutes late. I got it in the neck of course. Should I have just walked out and let them think it was me that ripped the thing?

Is the training essential for your work?

Could the trainer fail you/refuse to give the certificate if you left early?

Basically, would there be consequences like not being able to continue doing the job/",having to redo the training at your own cost etc.? If yes, then you were not at fault.

If there wouldn't be any consequences, bar the trainer giving you a bit of side eye, then you should've just left on time.

This sounds like something that happens in a school classroom!!! Trainer was being ridiculous - of course you had to leave to time to get to your actual job.

The trainer sounds incredibly childish. You’re not school children. I’d personally have just gone when needed to but understand it’s not always as easy as that.

Lol

It all sounds utterly ridiculous. You should have left when you got the message from your manager. The trainer was being petty and the person who did the damage should be ashamed of themselves!

Why can't I picture a miniature foam chair 🤔

I've come back for the update.

I want to know what sort of course it was, where working adults are immature enough to start vandalising the equipment. Also, like @PeachF , I want to know what you mean by a little foam chair.

Occupational therapy. The chair was a mini version of a normal size chair - made of foam like a stress ball

I find sone of this doubtful. Trainers don't behaves like that.

So there are occupational therapists out there carrying on like school children? Not you OP. Shame you got caught up in the nonsense. We’re all screwed if this is the standard of adult that gets work in skilled roles.

If the training was part of your job, your boss cannot have a go at you if that training they sent you on over ran!

What would've been the consequences of you leaving early?

Oh my god, yes!

There's always people who like to talk about their own experiences relating to the topic

Fire "my auntie's neighbour's house caught fire......."
First aid "this one lady, who lives in the houses out the back of our road had a heart attack......"
Hygiene "my friend's boyfriend works in the kitchen at the Queen's Tits and he says ......."
Meanwhile the clock is ticking and folk are missing busses, getting hungry etc.

SHUT THE FUCK UP, WE WANT TO GET OUT OF HERE!!!!!

SHUT THE FUCK UP, WE WANT TO GET OUT OF HERE!!!!!

Yessss! And the frikking questions. Especially the what if ones (totally made up scenario that is unlikely to happen or total common sense) or the "well x happened to my aunt's cousin's hairdresser's dog 17 years ago ,they did y was that right?" . Mate you heard it third hand, it was 17 years ago, everyone came out of it alive and well... just shut up! It doesn't matter!

So true. See also: meetings.

So there are occupational therapists out there carrying on like school children?

Bizarre.
The OTs I've met have all been normal, intelligent adults.