So, I have finished two weeks of passive information absorption. My brain is absolute mush. I have just spent two weeks having information squeezed into my brain, only to have 90% of it spill out and collect in a squishy little puddle on the floor.
The scary things for me are:
1) the training was initially meant to be 5 weeks - now condensed to 2.
2) the masses of information that I have been given over the last two weeks is just a teeny tiny fraction of the knowledge that I really need to do my job properly.
My issues are: how can 5 weeks of training be effectively compacted into 2? And, I feel extremely under equipped to do my job! (and I know that the rest of my new team feel the same way).
So, the end result is that I am about to be thrust out into the public in the service of "the government of the day" feeling totally unprepared. I know that I am going to be guided and buddied through the teething process for a couple of months, but somehow I am still feeling less ready for this new experience than for anything else I have ever started before in my life.
Oh, except for the very first time I walked into kindergarten.
DPS
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Welcome to the public service man.
My training consisted of being shown a shredder. That's where I spent my first three weeks.
I got used to being covered in little shreds of paper ... :)
We don't even have shredders, just the big blue Secure Document Disposal bins. No shredding for me (except for the possible metaphysical shredding from an angry customer)
DPS
Ooo have you done a counter already? That's totally deep end!
Nope, no dealings with the public yet. But it will happen eventually, and the department I work for has a love hate relationship with it's customers.
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