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Originally Posted by Rathji
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.
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I have to ask, was the company that you were working for a money losing organization. Was it entrusted with effectively spending someone elses money? Did you poop can more important and needed programs to keep the PD days?
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