Your toxicity is also exactly what this server doesn't need. Didn't you tell me to go hang myself in shoutbox?
So if I didn't need to turn up to any "training session" for my stage 3, why is there a stage 3? It was literally called a training session during my TFU application but was in actuality a test, I came in expecting to be trained, not tossed in to fight for passage, of course I passed with flying fucking colors because one of your trainers didn't bother to show up, so they just half assed it and gave me full marks anyway.
A lot of time is spent faffing about, trainers not showing up some times.
There was a recent RTU session? I didn't know, thought you knew I was blacklisted from the PD, not to mention that the frequency of your training sessions is laughable.
The lack of gratefulness comes from the fact that I never really asked for the server to head this direction. I might have made a few suggestions that at the time seemed cool and was accepted, but without realizing it, ended up bringing the server in this direction. I don't recall seeing you at any point trying to put yourself in my shoes for once and looking at it from my point of view.
Zayne summed it up pretty well. Training is ineffective and acts more like a test in applications than actual training. If you can't show up for the training session you scheduled and then complain that you spend your free time planning them, how can you call it free time when a trainer don't care to show up due to some random complication? You dedicate so much more time to planning the sessions than actually executing them.
Not to mention how elitist most of the PD has become, you found a lot of great officers and trainers you liked, not based off their competence. And I state this in pure ignorance due to a lack of transparency the PD has, a lot of suggestions have been put forward to change this, yet are ignored.
Do I think it's that easy to pull off? Yes, it was literally demonstrated to me two days ago, it made your training session look like a joke, a joke that covers two or three topics and spends the rest of the session preparing the next over a time span of like two hours. I went through 16 different topics, one of them lasting half an hour, questions were asked, answered and then we moved on from one topic to the next immediately, because it was well prepared in advance. The training session I attended is scheduled twice every week. Not to mention that the trainer hosting them doesn't react with a scolding tone and severe dismay when no one shows up and makes 14 announcements privately in direct messages about it. I learned leaps beyond what I've ever learned in any of the training sessions here combined, in that single training session.
I've held impromptu training sessions IRL, it doesn't take a lot of effort. Have all your equipment ready, know what you're going to teach to the point where you can actually answer pretty much any question regarding it, do it, test them (ask a question or something) to understand if they've been paying attention then take note of who actually paid attention. It's understandable if you need a second trainer for groups of people above 10 to keep track of things, and that's where it becomes difficult to track. A good indicator that someone's been paying attention is if they ask a question, especially if it's regarding something you said.
A good amount of fucking around also tends to happen in the training sessions I've attended. If you let one guy get away with fucking around, and others see this? You're going to have to expect they'll also want to fuck around too. It doesn't help when there's a lack of a no-nonsense attitude around quite a few trainers I've been around. Samuel for the most part actually has the right attitude regarding the PD, it's absolutely boring being forced in line but there are always other areas you can have fun, not during a training session that inconveniences the trainers who set it up for you.
