Ethics Training

Well, it’s that time of year again that we all have to take our Ethics Training. Don’t let the nomenclature fool you. Ethics Training has nothing to do with teaching people ethical behavior. It’s not like they’re teaching employees to respect each other, reward hard work, value each employee, or not stab each other in the back. No, Ethics Training isn’t about that at all.

 As you probably read from prior posts, Ethics Training is  nothing more than a method to shield the company’s liability if its employees do something illegal. In prior years, we had to read some materials and then take a simple 10-questionTrue/False test.  It was so easy you could skip the reading altogether and pass with 100% accuracy.

This year however, they changed the online training so that you can’t skip right to the questions. Instead, you have to watch a dumb video first and it won’t let you fast forward! It’s about an hour long. It begins with our CEO telling us how important ethics training is, followed by a bunch of dumb scenarios and acronyms. I actually don’t remember much.  I was busy catching up on my email as it played in the background until it got to the end so I could take the 10-questionTrue/False test.

When I took the test,  I actually missed one. Not a big deal though  because you have an infinite number of tries.

But how many tries do you need if you get a True/False question wrong? As many as it takes for the company to say they trained you, I guess.