Rules That Were Supposed to Help But Ended up a Big Fail
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Resisting the Read
One of the top managers for my work decided that everyone who’s worked there for 7+ years had to do a special online training course that consisted of two 400+ page volumes of “leadership” training followed by a 20 (25?) question test for each volume. You were expected to complete this within one year of being automatically signed up for the course. Failure to pass the tests or to complete the course by the end of that year rendered you ineligible for promotions and almost guaranteed to be laid off within a year.
So many people tried to take the guaranteed-severance-package option by not doing the course that they had to change the rule that you wouldn’t get laid off or not promoted, but you still “had” to do the course. People still didn’t do it.
That guy finally left shortly after, and a new guy replaced him and promptly chucked that course and the whole idea of it into the garbage.
