Post by Finn Fann on Jun 8, 2009 5:05:20 GMT -5
Training—Boring or Necessary?
Yep, training is sometimes the most boring thing I’ve ever experienced. You sit in a classroom like a school kid, and here you are, a grown person, sometimes with your own kids in school. You think, I know this stuff. I’ve had it time and time again. Do they think we’re all idiots?
But then I remember how it was when I first started in Corrections and how LITTLE training we received. I remember all the law suits that we used to have thrown at us, because no one had taken the time to explain things to us. The attitude was at times, SO WHAT? We never really worried about it. But, boy, do times change and do laws change, and sometimes not in our favor!
Slowly the powers that be decided that we need the training to help us better understand our jobs and our obligations. “So what” no longer applies to Staff actions or to the Administration.
We need refresher courses every year to bring us up on the latest changes. We need the latest in First Aid and CPR. You may save a life on the inside or the outside, even perhaps the life of a fellow Officer. You find out about your rights with the Department and the steps to take if you feel you have a problem. Even though it is sometimes a real pain in the backside and elsewhere, PPCT is one of the best things to ever come down the pike for Correctional Staff. And EVERY STAFF member needs to know how to shoot and the laws for shooting. The life you save just might be that of the person who complained so much about going to training.
It sometimes seems that we never use half the things we are taught in training, but you use them almost everyday and don’t even realize it.
The training instructors are a group of dedicated Staff who have for the most part been there and done that before you came along. It is not the easiest thing in the world to get up in front of your peers and give parts of the same class over and over again, and try to keep it interesting.
So take all the training you can get, be bored if you must, but learn, learn, learn. It is to your advantage and for the benefit of your career.
Yep, training is sometimes the most boring thing I’ve ever experienced. You sit in a classroom like a school kid, and here you are, a grown person, sometimes with your own kids in school. You think, I know this stuff. I’ve had it time and time again. Do they think we’re all idiots?
But then I remember how it was when I first started in Corrections and how LITTLE training we received. I remember all the law suits that we used to have thrown at us, because no one had taken the time to explain things to us. The attitude was at times, SO WHAT? We never really worried about it. But, boy, do times change and do laws change, and sometimes not in our favor!
Slowly the powers that be decided that we need the training to help us better understand our jobs and our obligations. “So what” no longer applies to Staff actions or to the Administration.
We need refresher courses every year to bring us up on the latest changes. We need the latest in First Aid and CPR. You may save a life on the inside or the outside, even perhaps the life of a fellow Officer. You find out about your rights with the Department and the steps to take if you feel you have a problem. Even though it is sometimes a real pain in the backside and elsewhere, PPCT is one of the best things to ever come down the pike for Correctional Staff. And EVERY STAFF member needs to know how to shoot and the laws for shooting. The life you save just might be that of the person who complained so much about going to training.
It sometimes seems that we never use half the things we are taught in training, but you use them almost everyday and don’t even realize it.
The training instructors are a group of dedicated Staff who have for the most part been there and done that before you came along. It is not the easiest thing in the world to get up in front of your peers and give parts of the same class over and over again, and try to keep it interesting.
So take all the training you can get, be bored if you must, but learn, learn, learn. It is to your advantage and for the benefit of your career.