I'd hate to work with OP. He's totally missed the point of the training which wasn't only health and safety, but also if the can follow instructions and report issues when they appear. He passed up on three opportunities to show the company he is an asset to them. I really really hope he's not incharge of anything that requires careful study, instructions, tasks because he will (according to his own admission) skip over steps, fail to finish all tasks involved in it. As for HR lady, I suspect that the nasty comment was the straw that broke camels back, one nasty taunt is unlikely to cause that reaction - tears possibly bit not a breakdown so bad an ambulance to be called

Op feels bad about it, wishes they never told anyone and then proceeds the post the story on the internet. I can't help but get the feeling they're actually proud of they did.

The training was very good for both employers and employees, but OP decided to cheat, skip it and inform others to do the same. What a dumpass! Not all employers are enemies of the employees.

Cheese and rice.! No one WANTS to do mandatory training but it's there for a reason! Particularly when it's health and safety related! Not only did the OP help an entire company skip some important mandatory training, he helped them with a targeted attack against a person who was merely doing their job! The employer of OP needs to make an example of him by promoting him to customer.

I used to find issues and "shortcuts" on our programs when I worked for a large(ish) food chain. When I found them, I reported it. No one benefits from having untrained and uninformed coworkers/employees.

So, OP "discovered that if you leave your cursor on the video, then press rt alt & rt arrow ..... " Really? Was OP looking for a way to get around what he was supposed to be doing? Or just goofing around instead of what he was supposed to be doing? Or are we supposed to believe this was an incredibly fortuitous accident? & Why didn't he go directly to HR instead of knocking over the 1st domino, then leaving events to unfold unpleasantly?

Sounds like they were all definitely in need of the training. I hope the HR lady left for greener pastures where they actually appreciate her efforts

Re. the everyone in this story acting like children - age and maturity are two different things, unfortunately. Plenty of people grow up without actually growing up. My grandfather was in his nineties and still acting like a whiny five year old every time he didn't get his way. Also the poster in this story is an idiot.

100% YTA, you of all people should know better than to CHEAT on this vital piece of training AND to share it with "your office, blabbermouth crush"! Everyone who cheated on this and publicly made "fun" of her should publicly apologize and have to attend a in person training session that includes an Ethics and Morales section, in fact all employees should have to do this annually as it appears all of you are in desperate need of this. You are supposed to be adults, not high school juniors!!! Shame on all of you!

We had a huge amount of online training to complete last year that could not be fit in to a work day and only a fraction of the time needed was allocated. Even if you were ok doing it at home, the links only worked onsite. It resulted in cheats being shared quickly. Our department agreed we would each tackle different modules correctly, then summarize to team and highlight anything important before the whole group copied answers. Took us longer than departments who just cheated, but others who tried to do it properly could not finish. I think we got the balance right given the stupidity of hours of mandatory training without time set aside for it.

I always thought you were supposed to hit play then go do something else.

Seems an unlikely cheat to be possible using modern training applications. I get being able to skip the videos but can’t remember the last time I took online training where you could skip the tests &/or final test. I’ve happily skipped through annual, mandatory, training videos because the information was either the same or new info was easily deduced but you can’t get a “complete” or “pass” training without taking the test(s) demonstrating you understand the material. The HR person would have had to override default settings multiple times, along with being asked every time, “are you sure?”. I think this is a fanciful tale told by someone who doesn’t understand how training applications function.

While some online training may be boring, it's necessary because stuff do change over time! Ask anyone involved in insurance, healthcare, etc.! And while shortcuts have their advantages, it's sometimes better to go through the entire course because missing even ONE critical piece of info can be DISASTROUS!

I'm not sure what platform she was using to generate the quizzes, but I've created many videos with quizzes embedded within the video or after the video. There is usually an option to allow the creator of the video to disable skipping. I feel bad for the HR lady. Mistakes happen. She should not have been beraded so harshly. The employees who did not do their training properly should have been the people who were reprimanded. Does OP not realize if you want something to stay a secret, the last thing you do is tell someone. This reminds me of people who use ChatGPT to write essays and do their work for them. Do they not realize the work and effort is apart of the process and that knowledge is necessary?? I am concerned for our future as a society. SMH.

This guy sucks. The fact that he showed someone how to cheat is one thing, but he also sabotaged safety training. That shows you how little regard he has for everyone, not just his HR person.

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I was a new hire at a company that used one of these computerized training programs. My experiences with computers has led me to be extreemly computer adverse. I'm convinced they basically don't work and screw up everthing to which they're applied. Anyway, I took this company's computerized training program without much difficulty on my part answering each question honestly. Evidently there are government programs that reward employers financially for hireing certain classes of people (veterans, disabled, etc.) and my employer was naturally interested in harvesting those rewards if at all possible. The answers I gave to previous questions led the computer to believe I might be one of those persons so it asked the amount of government money I was recieving and as the answer was none I tried to enter that answer. The computer did not like that answer and would not let me continue the training withourt giving it a different answer. Fortunately there was a human being supervising

Why does this feel like an episode of The Office?

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Everybody seems to be missing that the HR lady had a breakdown over an innocent mistake. Are we adults or cry babies. We all make mistakes, own up, correct and carry on. We all make mistakes.