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Post by lesleysm2 on Sept 17, 2024 22:59:34 GMT
Hope it went well. I'm waiting with bated breath for a report!!
Mick
Day one:Found the place mainly because I'd googled it so I knew what it looked like when the bus I was on sailed past it and had a long walk back! The doors were all locked so I stood about for a minute then saw a security guy letting someone out so I accosted him- I'm not on the list of people he should let in today! I explained who I was to meet with and it turned out I was trying to go in the public entrance where I needed to go in the staff one around the corner only when I got there they had no record of me either..... But the receptionist had a record of me....it was just I was supposed to turn up tomorrow! So I got to sit down for ages whilst she emailed my boss. Turned out he pit the wrong date on the form and was wondering where I was Upstairs to get my IT sorted out, impressed they had my security pass ready my last job it took almost a week! Set up with a rather swish notebook etc but when I tried to do a Teams call to my boss the headset I'd been given was missing the connector to the laptop so I had to go back to IT and get it All afternoon training same as today but said training was aimed mostly at social workers and I'm not one, to be honest I may have dozed off a bit Started this morning with a Teams meeting with my boss, he seems okay apparently once I am trained I'll be on the rota as the duty PSCO on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday and WFH the other two days then WFH for the next 2 weeks! So I am gritting my teeth and getting on with it for the moment the journey is a pain in the posterior region but if I soon don't have to do it that much- there's even some talk that a day or so next week when my training means I am doing it on Teams I could WFH So far so good |
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Post by dreampolice on Sept 18, 2024 6:33:32 GMT
Falling asleep during training on your first day doesn’t look good though!
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Post by andy on Sept 18, 2024 7:20:23 GMT
Someone has promised me a little something... In other news, with a little help from someone not a million miles away, I have succesfully straightened a bent bike wheel for the first time, which I am unduly chuffed by. JUst wish I knew why it went - I'd just got off, lifted the bike overa kerb, and as I got back on I heard a spoke go! I'm on the chunky side by my standards (just over 11 stone), but hardly by the standards of some of the people I see on bikes... Could just be metal fatigue. Every time the wheel rotates under load the spokes get pulled on. Normally they snap around the J bend at the hub end. |
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Post by spinno on Sept 18, 2024 7:29:08 GMT
Falling asleep during training on your first day doesn’t look good though! Even worse if you're delivering the training... |
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Post by gray1720 on Sept 18, 2024 7:29:40 GMT
Ot just a duff spoke, given that I have a feeling the wheel is less than a year old, certainly less than two.
It went exactly where you said, mind you, I don't think I've ever seen a spoke break that didn't. Obviously where all the stress is. It'll annoy hell out of anyone else who has to true that wheel as the new spoke has a different size nipple to all the others!
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Post by dreampolice on Sept 18, 2024 7:54:47 GMT
Falling asleep during training on your first day doesn’t look good though! Even worse if you're delivering the training... When I was a trainer delivering first aid and trauma care, we went way beyond basic First aid. I taught major bleeds and how to deal with them, including actual and improvised tourniquets, stuffing wounds, correct positioning for sucking chest wounds, acid burns, burns from fire etc. I taught police officers and civilian staff from all areas of the force. There were always some that moaned that it wasn't relevant to them as they worked in a non contact role, or were just civvies in an office etc. I used to say to them, that they may have kids, partners, they go out on the street etc and who knows what they may stumble across so the training is a good skill to have. I would also tell them that if they wanted to leave the training I wasn't really that bothered, they were free to go and take it up with their employer. I really disliked training people who didn't want to be there, had the attitude that brought the other participants down with them. No one ever did leave, but I wished some had, lol. |
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Post by spinno on Sept 18, 2024 7:59:44 GMT
Even worse if you're delivering the training... When I was a trainer delivering first aid and trauma care, we went way beyond basic First aid. I taught major bleeds and how to deal with them, including actual and improvised tourniquets, stuffing wounds, correct positioning for sucking chest wounds, acid burns, burns from fire etc. I taught police officers and civilian staff from all areas of the force. There were always some that moaned that it wasn't relevant to them as they worked in a non contact role, or were just civvies in an office etc. I used to say to them, that they may have kids, partners, they go out on the street etc and who knows what they may stumble across so the training is a good skill to have. I would also tell them that if they wanted to leave the training I wasn't really that bothered, they were free to go and take it up with their employer. I really disliked training people who didn't want to be there, had the attitude that brought the other participants down with them. No one ever did leave, but I wished some had, lol. As you say training never appears to be relevant until it's needed to kick in. As a beneficiary of that scenario I'm glad that it was used. |
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Post by gray1720 on Sept 18, 2024 8:18:33 GMT
Agreed - that's exactly the sort of thing I'd take whatever, just in case, you never know when etc, and it's a change from the routine as well.
Mind you, it ain't always so. I can cite the "team building" day at one workplace where we were "treated" to a talk on... dunno, it was that boring I've long since forgotten but by the time it had overrun it's slot by TWO HOURS we were certainly united in hating the presenter.
Or last employer but one where I was sent on training for international air freight. As it was something I had no experience of, I made some enquiries to try and find out what it was all about, and discovered that no-one on site knew either! None the wiser, I went through the course, at the end of which the vast air freight manual was taken away by the external trainer. Some months later, I was asked to give chapter on verse on a package (which, get this, needed to be shipped from Stevenage to Bishop's Stortford, so it wasn't even leaving the county!), and had to say that no, I couldn't, because the company hadn't bought the software needed. And they had the gall to bollock me for being crabby about the meaningless training. Twunts.
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Post by Kath on Sept 18, 2024 8:40:51 GMT
Even worse if you're delivering the training... When I was a trainer delivering first aid and trauma care, we went way beyond basic First aid. I taught major bleeds and how to deal with them, including actual and improvised tourniquets, stuffing wounds, correct positioning for sucking chest wounds, acid burns, burns from fire etc. I taught police officers and civilian staff from all areas of the force. There were always some that moaned that it wasn't relevant to them as they worked in a non contact role, or were just civvies in an office etc. I used to say to them, that they may have kids, partners, they go out on the street etc and who knows what they may stumble across so the training is a good skill to have. I would also tell them that if they wanted to leave the training I wasn't really that bothered, they were free to go and take it up with their employer. I really disliked training people who didn't want to be there, had the attitude that brought the other participants down with them. No one ever did leave, but I wished some had, lol. Would that all trainers were so good. I love a training day. I love learning new stuff. It annoys me sometimes that I'm supporting students on our Social Sciences course and I can't just write the essays for them - criminology in particular is fascinating! I've ordered the psychology text book they're using for some bedtime reading. You never know when you're going to need first aid training. I did our mandatory First Aid in the Workplace even though I spend 80% of my time staring at a computer on my own but it came in handy when a student went into a diabetic coma, if only for the DON'T PANIC! part. |
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Post by Kath on Sept 18, 2024 8:41:24 GMT
My RTBC...it's a BEAUTIFUL day here.
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Post by spinno on Sept 18, 2024 8:42:33 GMT
My RTBC...it's a BEAUTIFUL day here. Supposed to be here...gosh darned cloud... |
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Post by dreampolice on Sept 18, 2024 8:48:17 GMT
When I was a trainer delivering first aid and trauma care, we went way beyond basic First aid. I taught major bleeds and how to deal with them, including actual and improvised tourniquets, stuffing wounds, correct positioning for sucking chest wounds, acid burns, burns from fire etc. I taught police officers and civilian staff from all areas of the force. There were always some that moaned that it wasn't relevant to them as they worked in a non contact role, or were just civvies in an office etc. I used to say to them, that they may have kids, partners, they go out on the street etc and who knows what they may stumble across so the training is a good skill to have. I would also tell them that if they wanted to leave the training I wasn't really that bothered, they were free to go and take it up with their employer. I really disliked training people who didn't want to be there, had the attitude that brought the other participants down with them. No one ever did leave, but I wished some had, lol. Would that all trainers were so good. I love a training day. I love learning new stuff. It annoys me sometimes that I'm supporting students on our Social Sciences course and I can't just write the essays for them - criminology in particular is fascinating! I've ordered the psychology text book they're using for some bedtime reading. You never know when you're going to need first aid training. I did our mandatory First Aid in the Workplace even though I spend 80% of my time staring at a computer on my own but it came in handy when a student went into a diabetic coma, if only for the DON'T PANIC! part. I accept that it can also be down to the trainer. Having spent 30 years in the police with many courses (and certainly with 20 years on firearms, when we had training every month) I had my fair share of dreadful ones. When I became a trainer I tried to be the opposite of everything I disliked about some trainers. I got good feedback, so I assume to some extent I succeeded. On large courses (over 12 people) we had to have 2 trainers (or more) and we used to take it in turns to teach. I worked with some that almost sent me to sleep with their deliveries, lol. |
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Post by dreampolice on Sept 18, 2024 14:03:55 GMT
Far from reasons to be cheerful, but coincidentally having posted above about my time on the TFU and as a FA trainer, I have just heard that one of my instructors on my basic firearms course in 1996 (who was very good) and whom I then worked as a first aid instructor with after retirement and ran several courses together, has just passed away. Really nice bloke too.
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Post by lesleysm2 on Sept 18, 2024 23:25:12 GMT
Falling asleep during training on your first day doesn’t look good though! I was in a room on my own |
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Post by spinno on Sept 19, 2024 7:01:34 GMT
Falling asleep during training on your first day doesn’t look good though! I was in a room on my own Classic defence...any witnesses... |
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