3 Days and None the Wiser...

Well, I'm back from the Big M. The title of the post pretty much says what I got out of the training. The only part of it that I needed to be there for was the 9:00 am to 10:30 am training on Tuesday. The rest of it could have been handled through emails and handouts. Except for the game that was played yesterday. They played a game based on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, only the questions were geared toward our jobs. We had been separated into groups and Melanie's group (Melanie is the Resolution Unit Specialist from Wood Co. - and back up Supervisor up there) also contained the not well liked Nancy. Let's call her RumorNancy, because according to someone at the training, RumorNancy spread all kinds of lies about this worker while the worker was off for 6 weeks sick. Well, RumorNancy was the only one to win the Millionaire game from Melanie's group. So, at break, Melanie came up to me and said, "Miranda, RumorNancy won the millionare game. So you have to win the millionaire game. Don't let me down." Prior to this, I had every intention of not playing the millionaire game since I didn't want to be at the training anyway. But, when I heard that RumorNancy had won, I just had to play too. I couldn't let that go without doing my best to show her that she wasn't all that special. So, when it was my turn to play, I defeated, nay, I say crushed, the other contestants in the round that determines who would sit in the hot seat, then proceeded to win the million points and win the game. No one else from my group won. And there was only one winner per group for the whole day. I even had to stand up in front of everyone at the training (about 100 people) to get recognized for my victory. Melanie was very proud. You know it's pretty odd. I didn't like Melanie when I had to work with her every day. But she seemed a lot more compatible with my personality on this trip.

There's going to be a lot more posts about the training this weekend, but I have to do some other stuff right now. I bet I have a ton of email. And I have to read all of my friends' blogs to catch up with them.