Ugh, reviews, another part of employee life I haven't missed!

That stuff re: training was not something that was part of my life as a perm worker, in the UK or Australia. The companies certainly liked to pay lip-service to employee development, but I didn't see much evidence of it actually happening.

One of the things I enjoy about contracting is that instead of watching all the videos on harassment and whatever, I usually just have to sign a code of conduct. Those corporate videos are soul crushing.

I guess the exception was one quiz about bribery I had to take at IBM. It asked me what I would do if I were offered a cook to go with my lodgings where I was staying during an engagement. This woke me up to the possibilities of bribery I didn't know people were getting. I'm not exactly looking for bribes, but my the hypotheticals had me thinking way too small.

Actually you raise a good point - I also did a short bribery and corruption self-driven training thing at IBM, and that one was at least interesting.

The “Active Shooter” one at JPMC was somewhat sobering.

I would accept a cook, btw, if anyone out there is bribing :)

I received quality training on framework, language and protocols by coworker of that company. Those people spend a good 20% of their time doing that for clients anyway, so they are both comfortable doing it and I thougt it was decent dive ( modules span 20-30 hours )

I was not referring to conplicance trainings. Those, of course you won’t learn a thing.

Same. Heard much discussion about it at every job, but in terms of actual time or dollars -- nah.