Starting about 25 days ago a Reddit user going by the name 'ChinaHandy' began posting hilarious stories about working in a training center and a certain 'idiot coworker' named James.
Meetings about meetings, buying motivational posters instead of books and the dreaded weekend team building event are all described – and all classic hallmarks of the training-center-teaching nightmare.
So far, there are six stories up, most under the heading "My Idiot Coworker."
The first story posted addresses James' battle to get the training center a bell, over other priorities.
We had troubles last year and as a result had low student retention. My plan was to professionalize things with more and better communication with parents, more stuff online, more personalized learning, etc. I had a list of about 9 things that I wanted to do.
James pipes up with the suggestion the we need a school bell. A bell.
Then James battles for a parking space.
He will come in and they will tell him that there are no spaces. Now, this is clearly, demonstrably visible. It is just part of reality. James, EVERYDAY, refuses to believe this. I need to emphasize, EVERYDAY.
So, James begins his day yelling at the guards until they let him in and proceeds to fruitlessly drive around looking for a space.
Later on, after skimping on repairs, he locks himself in a broken bathroom.
There is panic in James’ defeated voice as he asks for the door to be pulled while he pushes so that he may be freed him from his hell. Half-hearted efforts are made. But the bell has warbled and croaked the beginning of class.
He also has a deep desire for meetings.
This new meeting is amazing. It is a marathon in pointlessness. A grueling, gladiatorial competition between titans of triviality. Decisions are made as if whimsy from fairies, announced like commandments from Olympus. But, unfortunately, neither of these two Oracles have the slightest ability to follow through.
It has been dubbed the Grand Productivity Council.
How to botch a team building event and get a bopping for it.
At the appointed time we assemble, but there is no James and no buses.
James is called and says he forgot to change his alarm. He is very sorry. Very sorry. The buses will be there soon. We should have a rest.
And most recently, what two Tsingdaos can do to a grown man.
He stands up, says we are all his brothers and ganbeis us all and even shows us his empty glass.
James goes to sit down and misses his chair.
Parts of the stories are clearly exaggerations and the language is NSFW, but they hit on a very real side of working in training centers.
Click here to read more outragious 'Tales from the Training Center.'
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