Compliance

Compliance training is quite possibly the biggest waste of time for employees to go through every few months. It's the HR team's way of checking the box for legal reasons without actually accomplishing anything for anyone. I don't remember any of the lessons they're trying to teach us and their ideal world is to make everyone soulless robots. Ideally, a company hires morally sound people to maintain its integrity. Yet, that impossible and somehow compliance is supposed to teach someone morals in 30 minutes - a noble goal. Asshats will be asshats and training basically tells people:

  1. How to be overly sensitive or 
  2. Inform people what the consequences are for being an idiot

I just did online compliance training and was able to answer all the questions without listening to one bit of the video. Does that make me more compliant than before? No. That just makes me either a decent human being or one who knows how to take tests. I'd like to believe I'm the former.