Here's what would be cool
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darkemeraldsWhat would be cool is if, during the training sessions where "Norm" inflicts his knowledge on me, everyone I know would email me or text me.
That way, I'd know that there's a shiny reward waiting for me at the end of the boredom. And I could at least watch my phone light up and see the little number appear on my gMail tab.
It would have helped during the 90-minute session I just survived. My attention gave out at the 45-minute mark, so there was "Norm," once again flushing perfectly good time down the toilet, neither of us accomplishing anything during the second 45 minutes.
As my attention wandered and I began asking scattershot questions, he became vaguely defensive and said several times how swamped he is and how impossible it is for him to get everything done, and how he'll be giving me this task and that task...
...followed by several minutes' discussion of this task and that task, and future things that haven't happened yet, and past things that I don't need knowledge of to do the job.
I was so edgy by the end of it that if I were slightly younger and just a wee bit less able to mind my tongue, I'd've almost certainly said a few regrettable and undeserved things to him.
As it was, I said, "I need these sessions to be shorter. I can't learn anything after 45 minutes, and half an hour would be better."
He agreed, reluctantly, so...progress, of a sort. Though it means I'll have to do this every single day instead of twice a week.
That way, I'd know that there's a shiny reward waiting for me at the end of the boredom. And I could at least watch my phone light up and see the little number appear on my gMail tab.
It would have helped during the 90-minute session I just survived. My attention gave out at the 45-minute mark, so there was "Norm," once again flushing perfectly good time down the toilet, neither of us accomplishing anything during the second 45 minutes.
As my attention wandered and I began asking scattershot questions, he became vaguely defensive and said several times how swamped he is and how impossible it is for him to get everything done, and how he'll be giving me this task and that task...
...followed by several minutes' discussion of this task and that task, and future things that haven't happened yet, and past things that I don't need knowledge of to do the job.
I was so edgy by the end of it that if I were slightly younger and just a wee bit less able to mind my tongue, I'd've almost certainly said a few regrettable and undeserved things to him.
As it was, I said, "I need these sessions to be shorter. I can't learn anything after 45 minutes, and half an hour would be better."
He agreed, reluctantly, so...progress, of a sort. Though it means I'll have to do this every single day instead of twice a week.
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30/9/10 20:08 (UTC)(no subject)
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1/10/10 06:32 (UTC)No-one can take in information for 90 mins solid. And my experience is that I only really learn new tasks by doing them for real, consulting manuals or asking for advice when I get stuck.
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1/10/10 09:48 (UTC)*snort*
God, he sounds awful. Tell me - what's his vocal range? About five semitones?
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2/10/10 00:38 (UTC)But seriously, I'm sorry time with him is such a pain. I imagine you as a cat with its fur being rubbed the wrong way.
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