Would you expect to have to do it all again?

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E learning makes up a huge part of my new job, I'm currently a trainee for it. Really regret taking the role, don't like anything about it sadly but trying to stick it out.
It's 18 months of training and intense e learning for I think the first 9 months.. anyway several weeks ago I went through some of them a bit too quickly. I was just trying to catch up as I had a lot on, but stupidly I didn't take into account that our line managers monitor every minute we're spending on it.
It was only that week I rushed it a bit, 6 weeks ago, since then I've spent a bit longer on it. (Not making myself spend exactly 60 minutes if that's what it suggests as everyone learns in different ways/reads at different speeds.
Anyway I was summoned to an 'informal meeting' to explain why I had rushed that week's e learning, even though it was 6 weeks ago. I was then made to show evidence of notes on my laptop to prove I took them as she didn't believe me, thankfully I had something on there to show.
I explained and apologised, and it turned into an hour long meeting which it really didn't need to be.
I've received an email requesting I redo the entire week's learning. I might sound bratty, entitled or whatever but I am 35 years old and feel like I'm back at school.
The e learning will be there if we ever want to go back to it. It was over a month ago and I've been spending longer on it ever since there which she could clearly see on her records.
I just feel anxious and embarrassed.. I am looking for another job in any case. Aibu here? I just find it all so micromanaged and nitpicking.

Sounds dramatic but should I make a complaint? Probably won't go anywhere though.

But you did rush that learning. It’s not there for if you ever want to go back to it - you’re meant to be doing it properly now. What is it you think you have to complain about?

They've said the pages will be there for the entirety of our training if we need to refer back to them.
I passed the assessments required, it's just so nitpicky to expect everyone to spend the exact amount of time with the page open. Why should it matter as long as you're passing and doing the work?

I'm not sure you have much justification to be pissed off over being told off for half arsing something that you half arsed.

Look, if you complain you’re going to seem like you have an attitude problem. That won’t help you in a new job.

It wasn't built into the timetable, the modules were there and suggested time frames were given. I didn't half arse it, as I said it was one week where I had a lot to catch up on so I tried to get through them more quickly to not fall behind.

It's just that the time hasn't been built in for me to complete another week's worth of learning, so I'll likely have to do it in my own unpaid time.

Can you not just sit and do it at home one evening with the tv on and time how long you're on each page and click through it? So pretend you're spending a long time.

I agree it's ridiculous. I'm a practical learner so find little value in these things. People I manage i try and enourage to do the job with support documents and training to refer back to. It is the best way to learn most jobs. But if your employer is asking for it play the system.

Thankfully our only online training is mandatory training and in all my years i've never once read the training and skip right to the test. But then i have to do fore safety training when i'm 100 percent homebased so it's not really relevant anyway.

Yeah, that's what I do now. I keep the page open for pretty much the amount of time they suggest. Some of the modules are very generic 'how to write an email' "How to speak to a customer' type things and admittedly it's hard to feel like spending an entire hour reading that.

And yeah I get I'm probably being a bit entitled, I think I'm just fed up of management culture and just being a number in the chain, looking to go self employed, I know the downside is no sick pay or holiday pay though.

But you shouldn’t see it as no sick or holiday pay, build it into your costs / hourly rate surely? So you might not physically get money on the days you are ill but you could give off some of the hourly amount into a sick /holiday pot? I mean I’ve never been self employed but assumed this is what happens

YANBU OP, but there is nothing you are likely to be able to do about it while you need the job (and not much point in doing anything about it if you leave). I doubt complaining will do anything other than put a target on you.

Op you sound miserable there, can you leave before finding a new role?

I hate web-based learning, well our work modules anyway. I find them incredibly tedious and I forget stuff as soon as I've read it anyway, I'm like a goldfish. I always pass the assessments but honestly they're just a paper exercise, a tick box if you will. Don't blame you at all for skimming through.

It may be half-arsed, but I do my job very well, so I don't see what's the harm in skim reading to pass a silly test.

It's bonkers. I am a fast reader and can read documents, pages and books far faster than my husband who works in a traditional professional role which requires a lot of reading. People are different and will study, read and learn at different speeds. I would ask that if you have to repeat because someone else doesn't trust you can read quicker than they can that it is timetabled in to your working day and that your work is delegated to someone else for that period. They will soon change their mind.

I think it was the way she demanded i show her notes I'd made. She asked do you make notes, I said yes, sometimes. She said, go on, show me then, and sat waiting whilst I found notes on my laptop, which I showed her. It just felt unnecessary and like a poster has said, a lack of trust.
Making notes isn't compulsory, I hate this assumption that everyone learns in the exact way and the exact speed.

She sounds like a fuckin nightmare to be honest. If my line manager asked to see notes I'd made on e learning, he'd get stinky side eye from me.

Thankfully, he's not that guy though.

I would have a meeting with your line manager and tell them exactly that

Chill. They're paying for your time. If that's how they want you to spend it, so what?

On your side here, OP.

We have training videos with a 'quiz' at the end (just to make sure you've listened). We're sent emails with every director & his dog cc'd in if we miss the deadline. We lose our right to a pay review if they aren't completed, which is my only motivation to prioritise them.

It's box ticking. Making every employee accountable for their every move - if you balls up it's your own fault because you've done the training. Don't have any issue with being accountable, but don't make people feel like shit for menial issues.

Your line manager sounds like a wanky example of a leader, with not much to fill their time. Supportive always wins. Chin up x

Some things are more important than money, like self-respect.

I would ditch that job, because I don't want to be treated like a 14 year old.