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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
To spend 451,200 on a two day orientation seminar for temporary park workers and then adding on the costs of producing shiny booklets, hiring a motivational speaker and the beneftits payments and then showing a 20 minute video on job safety is to me a tremendous failure, and a statement of tremendous arrogance when it comes to dealing with taxpayer dollars. Especially when you consider that most of these workers will not become permanent employees.
I've always worked for private industry and I've never seen full days of PD. Employees are more then welcome to take personal development classes and they get reimbursed when they pass.
This to me when the city is facing a deficit, has a serious procurement problem and have next to no control over contracts is tremendously stupid and wasteful.
I've also never ever worked at a job where you need to sit through two days of PD, I also don't believe that you don't need a silly motivational speaker when the prime motivation for these temp workers is to make a paycheck by . . . working.
The more I read this, the more ridiculous that it seems.
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I agree that having 2 days is a waste on seasonal workers, but to say all of that time is wasteful would be foolish.
As for private industry providing PD, maybe I have just been lucky. I have 5 yearly PD days at my current job. 4 are provided by the company as seminars etc and the last one is for use at my discretion. In past employment I have received multiple certifications from first aid to air brake and management training all on company time at their expense.
When I ran my own company I provided many of my employees the same benefits when it was appropriate. Like I said in my post, the biggest problem I have with it in this situation is there is often down time (rain days etc) associated with this type of work that can be used for most of this type of training. It is very clear that this downtime is not being used here and it should be.