Training's a chronic problem in most places. I know it is in mine.
I'm rather overworked most days, so are my bosses and most of my co-workers, we have a new guy, it helps that he's my best friend but even with HIM we can't avoid training problems.
Boss: Can't you maybe hand that off to Serge so he could do it?
Me: We have a hard deadline on that and it'll take twice as long to train him as for me to do it myself. I can hand it off if you extend the deadline
Boss: silence
Sometimes its unavoidable :)
I think your mission of coming up with a training manual is VERY laudable. We've been trying since I got there. Unfortunately the only person with enough time to actually make a training manual ISN'T the person *I* (and others) would want training newbies :)
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Training's a chronic problem in most places. I know it is in mine.
I'm rather overworked most days, so are my bosses and most of my co-workers, we have a new guy, it helps that he's my best friend but even with HIM we can't avoid training problems.
Boss: Can't you maybe hand that off to Serge so he could do it?
Me: We have a hard deadline on that and it'll take twice as long to train him as for me to do it myself. I can hand it off if you extend the deadline
Boss: silence
Sometimes its unavoidable :)
I think your mission of coming up with a training manual is VERY laudable. We've been trying since I got there. Unfortunately the only person with enough time to actually make a training manual ISN'T the person *I* (and others) would want training newbies :)