The job was full-time/temporary, 40-hrs/week, M-F. Somehow (my own fault, I'm sure...) it always extended into my weekends. As a professional trainer myself, the best I can say about the training provided was that it was uneven, poorly planned, and badly designed and executed. Especially for TECHNICAL training requiring a new employee to how to use an unfamiliar program or system or piece of equipment, be sure to provide ACCESS beforehand! Having an expert TELL employees how to do something they've never done before isn't the same as HANDS ON learning! The job was often chaotic; and what was urgent one week was irrelevant the next, because someone had changed the priority or the process. Possibly the worst part of the job was the rigidity of the regulations controlling everything we did. "Nature of the beast" and understandable, perhaps; but this job was not designed for the creative, innovative or free-wheeling individual. ALSO: Though I am typically self-directed and a very quick study, I often felt frustrated and at a loss. Supervisor: "Magnificent work. You set the bar for everyone else." Surprise to me, since the only time I ever heard that was the day the job ended and I was released!
