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The company laptop isn't mine, that makes it the perfect test environment!
We have mandatory biannual courses with a quiz on how not to be you. ๐
They really suck ass, but I see they have an actual function.
We only get a quiz that badly teaches you the very basics of how to start a fire. A lesson I learnt when I was about 5. They call it fire safety but its mostly just what does a fire need to burn.
Fuel, oxygen and an arsonist!
Did you have the course in how to pick up a cardboard box? It's a mandatory requirement that everyone in the company has to do, even if they work in corporate.
The heaviest thing I have to live in my job as a mini PC, it weighs considerably less than my cat, I'm not sure I really needed the training.