Mandatory Training

It’s that time of year again, mandatory training!  Since the functional managers waste most of the overhead building roads based on maps to now where, they highly encourage us to do the mandatory training on our own time.  They start spewing lines like:

“together we can help the bottom line by not charging overhead for this training”
“I know this is asking a lot, but together we can make a difference”

Functional Managers even try to entice us to take group training during our lunch breaks by offering to order lunch for us.  I usually find these free lunches even harder to keep down than the shitshow pep talks about not charging overhead for mandatory training.

Guess what?  Title 29, Chapter 5, Part 758 of the U.S. labor law states that employees are to be compensated for mandatory training.   You know what that mens, I’ll be charging overhead when I take my mandatory training.

Because the law is on my side, I throw rocks.