I don’t think being crosseyed is a thing they should teach 😜
This is so that when a less experienced colleague drives into someone the company can say well we did train you. So many times I’ve dealt with people at work who think that because they haven’t been told to apply everyday life skills to a work scenario that somehow it’s the company’s fault for not explicitly telling how to do, or not to do, XYZ,…
Always remember if there’s a warning sign, or training course it’s because one of your colleagues has done that thing.
We have a sign asking people not to use the toaster to dry socks for example
If Ben from accounts hadn’t backed up into Darren’s new Tesla then we wouldn’t have to be doing this
The memo is not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
You know which “philosopher” said that?
Karl Pilkington.
And people say he’s just an orange-headed buffoon.
It’s a checkbox that absolves the company of liability.
Never underestimate have many terrible drivers there are out in the world.
There are people who have been driving for longer than you that still can’t park. Or drive, for that matter.
Remember: you can have as many goes at your test as you like, and you only have to pass it once.
Left hand down a bit, go on, go on, you’re alright..go on, straighten up, you’re alright
To be fair, my mum’s been driving 45 years and still can’t park. I fully see why these liability absolving exercises exist.
We had a guy reverse the pool car into a bright yellow skip on his first day.
This was clearly written for him.
Worked with plenty of people who said similar, that forgot the basics.
Forklift driver who drove into the shutter door with the forks up, because they didn’t raise the door right to the top like we told them.
Milk delivery that watched our order wheel its way off the tail lift and all over the car park, because they didn’t raise the stops on the lift like we told them.
And so on and so forth.
I had the reverse. Back in the early 2000s I worked for an engineering firm, and every fucking year I had to do a day long “safe driving on company business” course.
This was despite the fact that I did not hold any sort of driving licence. Therefore ‘safe driving on company business ‘ could for me being summed up by the single word “don’t”. Every year I had this debate with Anti-Personnel and every year I got told “Sorry mate, mandatory, innit?”.
This will be tied into their insurance requirements. All must be trained to comply with insurance obligations.
At work we have people who drive vehicles for a living. Some have been doing it for thirty years. It’s the longer term drivers that have accidents, speed and get parking tickets because they build up bad habits. And they make the most noise about having to go on refreshers.
Have you done the “How not to burn to death” training yet?
you should be more than familar with bullshit insurance obligations by this point lol
As someone who used to work motor claims, you’d be shocked at the amount of people who drive like utter shite despite having decades of driving experience
Someone in the company did something stupid at some point. Stupid enough that it was reportable under RIDDOR.
So now everyone has to have training (and probably periodic refresher training) so the company are showing they are doing something to reduce the risk.
The fact it’s a basic everyday task is irrelevant. Even if you have a license to do the thing? Refresher training is never seen as a bad thing.
Is that continuum? We have that for office staff too, absolutely mind numbing “courses” you have to click through lol
Likely somebody recently caused an accident in the office car park. Especially with how shitty some drivers are now days.
In the sites I’ve worked, they encourage you to reverse into the parking spots, that way less chance of accidents when everyone is going home. One year it had to be regularly briefed out because one new lady had been reversing out, not looked at all and reversed into another car that had stopped to let her out.
But have you had a theoretical training on how to use a fire extinguisher? I did. Theoretically I can save people now.
I’m still annoyed at our stress awareness courses. They set unrealistic targets and then they make you learn about how bad for your health it is to be stressed. Thanks?
my mum has been driving for 50 years and she’s a fucking terrible driver who could do with lessons on how to park a car.
driving for 25 years doesn’t mean a thing, basically.
I used to do some volunteering that required an annual first aid refresher lasting a few hours. Several of the other volunteers happened to work as paramedics: one of them a solo motorcycle paramedic with about 30 years in the job. Every year, the paramedics were required to attend the refresher with the rest of us, to learn basic CPR and how to bandage a hand injury.
Meanwhile, I (lawyer working from home in a 100% desk job) am required to do an annual online training covering amongst other things “Working at Height” – just in case I’m minded to climb up a crane or something.
Okay but have you ever tried l👀king?
This is a perfect example of a company policy that gets written following a employee liability claim.
Source: someone who once had to complete a training document on how to use a vacuum cleaner.
Seems about right for a company to cover their liability.
If there has to be a rule about it, it’s because someone’s done it before.
Rules are written in blood, but they are also written in stupidity.
To be fair, there’s a lot of shit drivers out there, regardless of how long they’ve held their licence
Does this office job include driving?
Because every single comment mentioning liability, etc is irrelevant if it doesnt
Mirror, signal, manoeuvre.
3 seconds, job done, sign here.
At my last job I had to sign to say I had been trained to use the toaster, including a full risk assessment.
Insurance requirement apparently, there’d been a few ‘incidents’, but FFS…..
Someone in my office reversed into a bollard, go out and checked the damage and then got stuck inside the van and broke the lock by kicking the door to get out.
My Grandad had to do a course/training with the council in order to drive a ride on lawnmower at the care home he was working at, all fine and dandy, except he’d previously been a farmer so a little ride on lawnmower was hardly something he couldn’t use safely.
At my place of work the only requirement to being allowed to drive the company vehicles around park is a driving licence! Some drivers are certainly better than others, and driving a van around a caravan site with tight spots to get in, dodgy places to reverse out of and children who seem to have no clue about road safety is not easy. So glad a lot of the time that I don;t drive and have a trolley instead!
Phew that’s lucky!! I wonder how you’ve managed to get by before you were lucky enough to be told how to park.
I once had to do functional skills level 2 tests in maths & english despite holding a masters degree in engineering because hr are idiots. I was technically self employed at the time too so I can imagine the joys in the finance department when they received my massive invoice plus travel for doing their stupid test. They paid me though.
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I don’t think being crosseyed is a thing they should teach 😜
This is so that when a less experienced colleague drives into someone the company can say well we did train you. So many times I’ve dealt with people at work who think that because they haven’t been told to apply everyday life skills to a work scenario that somehow it’s the company’s fault for not explicitly telling how to do, or not to do, XYZ,…
Always remember if there’s a warning sign, or training course it’s because one of your colleagues has done that thing.
We have a sign asking people not to use the toaster to dry socks for example
If Ben from accounts hadn’t backed up into Darren’s new Tesla then we wouldn’t have to be doing this
The memo is not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
You know which “philosopher” said that?
Karl Pilkington.
And people say he’s just an orange-headed buffoon.
It’s a checkbox that absolves the company of liability.
Never underestimate have many terrible drivers there are out in the world.
There are people who have been driving for longer than you that still can’t park. Or drive, for that matter.
Remember: you can have as many goes at your test as you like, and you only have to pass it once.
Left hand down a bit, go on, go on, you’re alright..go on, straighten up, you’re alright
To be fair, my mum’s been driving 45 years and still can’t park. I fully see why these liability absolving exercises exist.
We had a guy reverse the pool car into a bright yellow skip on his first day.
This was clearly written for him.
Worked with plenty of people who said similar, that forgot the basics.
Forklift driver who drove into the shutter door with the forks up, because they didn’t raise the door right to the top like we told them.
Milk delivery that watched our order wheel its way off the tail lift and all over the car park, because they didn’t raise the stops on the lift like we told them.
And so on and so forth.
I had the reverse. Back in the early 2000s I worked for an engineering firm, and every fucking year I had to do a day long “safe driving on company business” course.
This was despite the fact that I did not hold any sort of driving licence. Therefore ‘safe driving on company business ‘ could for me being summed up by the single word “don’t”. Every year I had this debate with Anti-Personnel and every year I got told “Sorry mate, mandatory, innit?”.
This will be tied into their insurance requirements. All must be trained to comply with insurance obligations.
At work we have people who drive vehicles for a living. Some have been doing it for thirty years. It’s the longer term drivers that have accidents, speed and get parking tickets because they build up bad habits. And they make the most noise about having to go on refreshers.
Have you done the “How not to burn to death” training yet?
you should be more than familar with bullshit insurance obligations by this point lol
As someone who used to work motor claims, you’d be shocked at the amount of people who drive like utter shite despite having decades of driving experience
Someone in the company did something stupid at some point. Stupid enough that it was reportable under RIDDOR.
So now everyone has to have training (and probably periodic refresher training) so the company are showing they are doing something to reduce the risk.
The fact it’s a basic everyday task is irrelevant. Even if you have a license to do the thing? Refresher training is never seen as a bad thing.
Is that continuum? We have that for office staff too, absolutely mind numbing “courses” you have to click through lol
Likely somebody recently caused an accident in the office car park. Especially with how shitty some drivers are now days.
In the sites I’ve worked, they encourage you to reverse into the parking spots, that way less chance of accidents when everyone is going home. One year it had to be regularly briefed out because one new lady had been reversing out, not looked at all and reversed into another car that had stopped to let her out.
https://preview.redd.it/vd699qk2lauf1.png?width=1499&format=png&auto=webp&s=657c1865384f20a33906e0be71f287bcb8c8f542
But have you had a theoretical training on how to use a fire extinguisher? I did. Theoretically I can save people now.
I’m still annoyed at our stress awareness courses. They set unrealistic targets and then they make you learn about how bad for your health it is to be stressed. Thanks?
my mum has been driving for 50 years and she’s a fucking terrible driver who could do with lessons on how to park a car.
driving for 25 years doesn’t mean a thing, basically.
I used to do some volunteering that required an annual first aid refresher lasting a few hours. Several of the other volunteers happened to work as paramedics: one of them a solo motorcycle paramedic with about 30 years in the job. Every year, the paramedics were required to attend the refresher with the rest of us, to learn basic CPR and how to bandage a hand injury.
Meanwhile, I (lawyer working from home in a 100% desk job) am required to do an annual online training covering amongst other things “Working at Height” – just in case I’m minded to climb up a crane or something.
Okay but have you ever tried l👀king?
This is a perfect example of a company policy that gets written following a employee liability claim.
Source: someone who once had to complete a training document on how to use a vacuum cleaner.
Seems about right for a company to cover their liability.
If there has to be a rule about it, it’s because someone’s done it before.
Rules are written in blood, but they are also written in stupidity.
To be fair, there’s a lot of shit drivers out there, regardless of how long they’ve held their licence
Does this office job include driving?
Because every single comment mentioning liability, etc is irrelevant if it doesnt
Mirror, signal, manoeuvre.
3 seconds, job done, sign here.
At my last job I had to sign to say I had been trained to use the toaster, including a full risk assessment.
Insurance requirement apparently, there’d been a few ‘incidents’, but FFS…..
Someone in my office reversed into a bollard, go out and checked the damage and then got stuck inside the van and broke the lock by kicking the door to get out.
My Grandad had to do a course/training with the council in order to drive a ride on lawnmower at the care home he was working at, all fine and dandy, except he’d previously been a farmer so a little ride on lawnmower was hardly something he couldn’t use safely.
At my place of work the only requirement to being allowed to drive the company vehicles around park is a driving licence! Some drivers are certainly better than others, and driving a van around a caravan site with tight spots to get in, dodgy places to reverse out of and children who seem to have no clue about road safety is not easy. So glad a lot of the time that I don;t drive and have a trolley instead!
Phew that’s lucky!! I wonder how you’ve managed to get by before you were lucky enough to be told how to park.
I once had to do functional skills level 2 tests in maths & english despite holding a masters degree in engineering because hr are idiots. I was technically self employed at the time too so I can imagine the joys in the finance department when they received my massive invoice plus travel for doing their stupid test. They paid me though.
Should’ve been a walk in the park then.
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