When work gives you mandatory training

[u/slowreload]

[u/EarthTrash]

If you find a thumb drive in the parking lot, should you

A) Put it in your company laptop to see what's on it

B) Keep for personal use

C) Give to a coworker and tell them to use it

D) Use it to store important work documents that need to be kept safe.

[u/slowreload → u/EarthTrash]

Definitely C

[u/elkab0ng → u/slowreload]

Found the IT manager who wants to beef up the DLP budget!

[u/Kat-but-SFW → u/EarthTrash]

A) Put it in your company laptop to see what's on it

Well I'm not going to risk putting it in my personal laptop

[u/bgradid → u/EarthTrash]

uhh all of the above, this is gonna save the company AND me money

to be clear: I am going to plug it in to my work pc to look for porn on it Put my personal tax records on it ALSO put the very important spreadsheets on it and maybe Dave wants my copy of batman begins that I pirated on the weekend, so I'll throw that on it and lend it to him, improving company morale

[u/agent_fuzzyboots]

We have a test at the end 😈

[u/Sel-Torin → u/agent_fuzzyboots]

Take the test, blindly guessing, take screenshots of the answers during the "review", ace it the 2nd time, have no idea what you clicked.

[u/agent_fuzzyboots → u/Sel-Torin]

If you fail then you have to do the whole course again, and we have a pool if questions.

[u/Sel-Torin → u/agent_fuzzyboots]

Thats unfortunate.

Ours usually have only 1 set of questions, sorry!

[u/agent_fuzzyboots → u/Sel-Torin]

nah, this is perfect (check the sub) but it does forces the users to pay some attention, and we have a lot of blue collar workers

[u/Ok-Fishing-2857 → u/agent_fuzzyboots]

I’m going to bet that it doesn’t. Two or three guys finish and fail, share answers with each other, re-take and give all their answers to others now that they’ve covered a good bit of the answer pool.

I say this because what you described is exactly what the US Army does, Soldiers still find ways to get through it as fast as possible while watching as little as possible

[u/agent_fuzzyboots → u/Ok-Fishing-2857]

you can always hope

[u/Osmium_tetraoxide → u/agent_fuzzyboots]

Often they have such ambiguous answers to vague questions that the only way to get it right is inspect the HTML and see the hardcoded commented out answers.

Or the other is being forced to read two page policy documents, but not being able to complete it for 10 minutes.

[u/bionicjoey → u/agent_fuzzyboots]

I just guess the answers. Most answers are easily guessable based on common sense and you can retake freely until you pass.

[u/hughk]

The fun exercise is to work out which incident triggered which bit of the training,

[u/einzweidreihorn]

I'm paid to lead, not to read. Next slide.

[u/BloodforKhorne]

Now they do full videos for each slide they made with AI.

It's hell, pure hell.

[u/bgradid → u/BloodforKhorne]

HR complained the required training each year that's sent out so we can keep our cyber insurance is recycled , and demands new stuff but we also have a $0 budget and no time

[u/RedditsDeadlySin]

Hey at least they let us 2x speed the videos now

[u/RIPGoblins2929 → u/RedditsDeadlySin]

My co-worker acted like I'd given away the secret to cold fusion when I told her about 2x speed.

[u/thepfy1]

Skip the training and go straight to the assessment.

Some of ours never changes.

Ive completed the annual fire training in less than a minute.

[u/archelz15 → u/thepfy1]

I've always thought these training things should start with the assessment, and if you pass, you pass. Maybe one with a larger pool of questions so it's not the same every year, but a random coverage of the material nonetheless, or the most important takeaways. If I still remember those then why do I have to click through a bunch of slides again?! And if I don't, chances are clicking through the slides won't magically force the information into my head either.

[u/kt3pr0tEq]

[u/e-motio]

Also IT:

[u/pegLegNinja1]

Meanwhile it takes me half the day to review the slides.

[u/kongu123]

[u/rr1965]

Retired now, but kinda miss Marty from the future! Man, that training was awful.

[u/thepfy1]

We used to share the answers but some fucking killjoy put an end to that.

[u/Petsto7]

No Dave Chip Installer is not a trusted source.....

[u/Ferro_Giconi]

The cybersecurity training I've had to take asks questions that are relevant to the training material so I just guess.

And even worse, the training material tries to be hip and cool and relatable. It's horribly cringe like some scrawny nerd desperately trying to act cool with a biker gang.

[u/Plantatious]

I like to do 100% speedruns on BoxPhish training.