But for some #reason, #management thinks it's appropriate to make employees use personal time to learn this stuff.
There are lots of #justifications given; maybe some upper management even believes some of them. None of them hold water.
"Oh, but they're #optional!"
So an employee who can't use the tool to the utmost because he didn't attend the "optional" training won't be held to account or compared to others who took the training? Unlikely.
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