So I have to use the computer?

[TonyDonuts]

That could be because many trainers act that way. I've put up with way too much of that at my job.

I won't let my assistant manager train people anymore. If the trainee doesn't get a task completely, totally perfect after being shown once, maybe twice, then that trainee is "worthless" and Al (not his real name) won't budge from that position. Ever.

Not even if the trainee gets help from somebody else, and really works hard at learning the job. Al will take every chance he gets to get me to understand that the trainee is "worthless" and can't do the job.

Amazing.

[mharbourgirl]

Well, I guess it would cut down on the people turning in apps and/or resume's written in crayon...I've heard some horror stories from HR peeps before

At a previous job one of my duties was sorting and filing resumes for the HR person - it was the sort of business that would hire large numbers of tradespeople for various jobs related to building oil rigs. So we had shelves full of huge binders of CVs. One day I opened an envelope to find a CV done on brown/grey foolscap, in yellow crayon, apparently by a 5-year-old. It got tossed because it was unreadable, naturally. I would have forgotten about it except the guy in question called in a week later to see if there was any work, and I couldn't find his CV in the appropriate binder. Finally he described it to me, and my brain fused. See, he'd let his daughter use it to practice her printing, and thought it would be cute to send it in because we'd all go 'awww, what a cute kid!' and give him jerbs right away.

I'm thinking to myself 'Dude, you're a welder, with white metals tickets and years of experience. You didn't include copies of ANY of your certs, and your CV was scribbled out by your kid. How the hell did you think you'd get anyone to take you seriously by pulling something like this?' It took getting the shop foreman on the phone to give the guy a figurative smack upside the head to get him to stop whining about having to have a real resume with legit tickets on file before he'd ever get considered.

So, SO glad I don't have anything to do with HR anymore. Billing is stressful enough. :P

[camjuniper]

Well, I guess it would cut down on the people turning in apps and/or resume's written in crayon...I've heard some horror stories from HR peeps before

I had an awful summer job playing office bitch for a very well-known University in the admin office of their Health Services. Opening & sorting mail was one of my tasks because I did data entry & filing on the bulk of it--student health forms. Opened a sad letter once that was written in pencil in chicken scratch worse than that of any I'd ever seen on lined yellow paper (tiny 3x5 notepad size), listing this guy's utter lack of credentials and his hopes of finding a job there, basically, a letter of intent.

[EricKei]

basically, a letter of insanity.

Fixed that for ya ^_^

It does scare me how nonchalant some people will be about apps these days, when it has become harder even for people willing to put in the effort to get even crappy jobs x.x