Do you enjoy all-day trainings as much as I do?

When I was still a teacher, we had that, too. I rarely enjoyed the events. A lot of hot air and blabla.

Only if we were doing it in Monterey or something, lol.

We used to have a lot of meetings but it kept the communication lines open and I rather enjoyed the break. Hope they had Swiss cheese to go with the ham.

I cringe at having to sit through all-day staff meetings. To me, they are the biggest waste of time. Thankfully, at my work we only have to do it about once a year. Most of our other "long" staff meetings are kept to under a half a day. Although, the one benefit of the all-day meetings are that our bosses treat us to lunch! lol

It's shocking how little sense they think their employees have. Most staff meeting topics are insulting. So are the seminars they send teachers to, some are even mandatory. When the state decided to send all teachers to learn about other cultures (because they think teachers live in caves) they made the seminars mandatory for foreign language teachers too. Boy, were we all ticked. We were degreed, credentialed and experienced teaching this material. Eventually, so we wouldn't go on strike, they excused us.So no, I don't enjoy them either.

Luckily I was never involved in many of these. I got to man the phones. Very important!

We had a lot of all day training classes when I worked at Headstart on Friday's. I was ok with them...they fed us a good lunch too. They ranged in so many ways on what the training was about.

when I worked in the library we had staff meetings I had to attend, I always thought of them as lady dog meetings'in' that someone would always bring up nothing but complaining.to me it was so irritating as we had a great staff'and most of the library patrons felt we all did a'great job,.

I think it depends on what the agenda is but I usually don't. A few years back I attended a training to be an environmental officer for 5 days and that's from 8-5. I got headaches every single day from stress and the only way i knew to relieve that was to garden upon arriving home. It was at that time i discovered that touching the soil actually relieves stress.

It depends on what I'm training on. But I sure prefer all-day trainings than all-day meetings. At least in the former, I learn something.

i despised 'em myself. always seemed like a huge waste 'f time'n resources.

It is nice to catch up with colleagues sometimes but to be honest I would much rather just get on with my job although I know some people thrive on going to meetings and avoiding the work load. When they have a senior managers meeting It amazes me how much crap comes out and how very detached and removed from reality some of these senior managers are from what is really happening at ground level.

I'll be in your shoes on Thursday. I hate that stuff. Just put it all in a memo and I promise I'll read it.

No, I get bored with meetings.

No here.Did you make the poor baby cry there(kidding)cute phot

Domestic abuse has effects on child totally agreed with you, I face this as a child