Just so wild to me. I now work with people who make massive screw ups on the regular. In any case, is there a name for this sort of fantastical boot camp I described?
Most jobs I’ve ever worked the person training me didn’t give a shit about the job (didn’t blame them) and would fire hose me with an info dump on day 1 and by day 2 I was expected to understand it all.
Lmao and I bet those types of companies complain about turnover rates too
poor training with high expectations leads to new hires getting overwhelmed and burnout so they quit resulting in high turnover
high turnover leads to the employees tasked with training getting tired of repeatedly training people who don’t stick around and as a result rationally deciding not to put much effort into the training
a self reinforcing cycle that routinely destroys companies that is obvious to any working person but incomprehensible to anyone with an MBA
The automobile repair shop I work at does this. They claim they’ll train you but they do exactly what you’ve described and then fire people every time they mess up. It reached a point where I started taking some of them as apprentices off-hours just to give them a leg up. They really just want people who have already gone through an apprentice program and don’t want to be bothered training new recruits that haven’t been through it.
That was my assumption; the training program is to weed out inexperienced people
I was the only person in the US branch specializing on the software they had me implementing at my last job.
It did not go well.
My first job out of college was a shitty sales job… the first two weeks were literally me and 6 other new hires writing down a script based on the boss reciting the approved responses and it was our job go home and type them out and then print out and have them at our desk for then spending 8 hours on the phone. Insane in hindsight
Maybe it just takes most people 8 weeks and seems like years worth to you.
when you just can’t be bothered to read the actual text of the post“Had a job” implies that I was able to get through this program and I thought the rest of the post implied my concern when I saw how other people who didn’t “make it” were immediately discarded. Idk or so I thought, no need to make it personal
