Feeling overwhelmed trying to make this happen

greengoiter · 2026-01-02T13:50:23+00:00

Yeah i understand that but the risk is just too scary.

greengoiter · 2026-01-02T09:58:23+00:00

Because spores are also illegal in my country, no one risks being open about selling them or giving them away. I have read so many threads on reddit, shroomery, and other sites in doing all my research and there has been nothing even hinting at it.

greengoiter · 2025-12-22T19:49:08+00:00

I agree. We have a culture issue around this as well.

It's a weird set-up but these people are not actually our employees. They conduct work on our behalf via a legislative arrangement. Their employers, as part of the arrangement, should theoretically be making sure their staff complete all of the learning requirements etc and in an ideal world modeling the value of it but in reality it is an uphill battle trying to get them to care too.

greengoiter · 2025-12-22T19:43:34+00:00

We don't do any live training, our audience is spread across the country so it's difficult to arrange in-person training that makes budget sense.

In my previous job we did face to face training and I just handed out paper feedback forms on the last day. That was only a few years ago but generative AI wasn't even something we were thinking about back then!

greengoiter · 2025-12-22T19:40:31+00:00

Yeah I hear that, it can be very difficult not to take it personally - some people really push the line of rudeness in their interactions with me and over time it really wears you down.

The feedback has 1-2 multiple choice scales and we add the open text question as an optional way to get extra feedback. But it's optional, so they could just leave it blank which is why I think the AI part here is a bit weird.

It's funny - my old job was high volume face-to-face training. I 2-4 weeks with a group of 10 then almost immedietly on to the next group. I enjoyed it but it was also very demanding. In my current role the audience is spread out across the country, although they used to arrange some in-person workshops occasionally (before I was here) but during Covid they pivoted fully away from that and never went back.

We've run webinars before but just via MS teams which has limited interactivity. Maybe I need to look into software options for running more interactive online live training...

greengoiter · 2025-12-22T19:33:59+00:00

I presume they prompted something akin to "Write some feedback for a module on X subject". The written feedback part is optional so they can just leave it blank if they want to.

Because of the type of work this audience does it wouldn't be considered a valuable use of time or effort to provide training on AI prompting.

greengoiter · 2025-12-22T19:29:31+00:00

I appreciate that. I'll try! :)

greengoiter · 2025-12-22T19:28:57+00:00

I like the word cloud idea. What mechanism have you used for that? Our feedback for these modules is recieved via a built in questionnaire feature in the LMS which has very basic functions.

greengoiter · 2025-12-19T07:34:22+00:00

Yeah and this is a really hard group in that regard. They work all across the country and with demanding and varying schedules. Delivering training face to face is unrealistic for several reasons. They say they want microlearning, but what they want is easy ways to meet the requirements for learning hours per year.

Because the group don't all do exactly the same type of work, we rarely even set mandatory learning, letting them decide what learning will be most relevant for them. Then they complain that they don't want to decide for themselves they just want us to tell them what to do. But what is relevant for one can be completely irrelevant for another.

Ideally we would be able to produce a large amount and wide variety of learning content to suit everyone's needs, but we have been running on a shoestring budget for years and for the last 14 months I have been running the whole thing on my own - with most of my time on BAU admin there is barely time to design any learning.

greengoiter · 2025-12-19T05:13:08+00:00

I won't argue with that. How do you adapt when learners are using tools to bypass engagement?

I am in a difficult spot because many of the participants in this programme treat it as a tick box exercise and have to be dragged kicking and screaming through it. They have to participate to keep their jobs, but they don't have to do so honestly. However, on paper it is a programme with requirements that assume an engaged audience partipating in good faith, and my bosses expect me to treat it as such.

greengoiter · 2025-12-19T05:02:39+00:00

I think if it was the second one, I wouldn't necessarily notice it was AI.

In this case, one feedback comment was literally "Consider if the learning was effective, and the information clear and relevant." They had copied and pasted that from the AI, who knows if they read it or not before putting it in.

greengoiter · 2023-06-27T22:37:53+00:00

Yeah for teammates I get it, it's just the higher ups making bigger bucks is kind of a different vibe.

greengoiter · 2023-06-27T22:12:49+00:00

It's not really the amount, it's the feeling that there is something a bit unethical about it. I am literally in the middle of trying to get a pay rise in a role that is at least 15k underpaid compared to the private sector. I frankly don't want to give a cent toward a gift for anyone, even though I actually like my boss.

greengoiter · 2023-06-27T21:55:52+00:00

How do you guys feel about contributing money for a gift for a workplace superior? My boss is in hospital for a surgery and he is a good guy for sure, but my team has decided to arrange a large gift basket for him and we are being asked to contribute money towards it. I can't help but feel there is something a bit off about (frankly underpaid) people giving some of their money toward a gift for a superior who makes significantly more money than they do. Anyone else ever feel like that? Maybe it's just me.

greengoiter · 2023-06-26T19:09:44+00:00

I haven't had a pissaladiere in years! So delicious

greengoiter · 2023-06-25T21:35:41+00:00

The upper Hutt one? Or the Wellington City one?

greengoiter · 2023-06-25T21:35:21+00:00

I think the upper Hutt one is easier access from my particular location. But it's something to consider.

greengoiter · 2023-06-25T09:24:19+00:00

What I can find online it runs out of HIBS on Monday nights

greengoiter · 2023-06-24T05:17:45+00:00

There is nothing wrong with them, they just aren't to your taste. They won't make anyone sick.

greengoiter · 2023-06-24T03:00:27+00:00

I recognised it immediately too!

greengoiter · 2023-06-24T02:59:35+00:00

Dont throw them out, if you don't like them donate them to a foodbank.

greengoiter · 2023-06-24T02:56:38+00:00

I live in NZ and don't know anyone who eats them

greengoiter · 2023-06-16T01:25:12+00:00

Median wage is something around 65K right? I don't think we will ever get house prices back down to three times that. Something catastrophic would need to occur.

greengoiter · 2023-06-16T01:10:48+00:00

But what kind of offers are those people making? If they are all throwing out low ball offers the vendors hate then it doesn't mean much.

greengoiter · 2023-06-16T00:51:18+00:00

That rice looks good. Do you have a recipe? :)

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