April 21, 2004

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I will soon be off for the rest of the morning. I have the pleasure of spending three hours in Wan Chai in a small locked room. I will enter with nothing but the clothes I am wearing and I will be watched the whole time by closed circuit TV. I will not be allowed to leave until the deed is done. Yes, I have a training "module" to attend as part of an ongoing qualification thingy. One may ask what is the point of forcing people to do this things when they involve no study and you cannot fail them. One may ask why is it that this American based exam requires all those taking it outside of the USA to take two forms of ID, whereas inside the USA only one is required. But it is compounding the folly to expend so much mental energy on the task. It is something to be endured. It is just a shame to be able to take the time off work only to spend it so wastefully when it could be spent so wantonly.

posted by Simon on 04.21.04 at 10:20 AM in the




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Amen to that.
I'm coming to the end of a five month training program. Each alternate week I and 28 others have sat in the same room and experienced a slow and painful death-by-powerpoint as a stream of presenters flow through. My head is full and the rest is going to waste. Aaarrrrgghhh.
Thankfully there's no CCTV.

posted by: Grinder on 04.23.04 at 03:54 PM [permalink]




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