As I was sitting in my training class yesterday, one of the people sitting next to me started talking about their job and their qualifications. For whatever reason this seems to be something that happens in all week long training classes. Topics of conversation are children, work, and certifications and sometimes it gets to be a pissing match.
Normally I don't get into the pissing matches because the reason I'm in training class is to finish some sort of certification. Truth be told, I like asking people about their families and what they do at work and what they like to do in their spare time. I'm not interested in their certifications because any idiot can pass a certification. Yesterday was a different story with the idle chit chat.
When each person in the training class first went around the room to introduce ourselves we each talked about our background (i.e., what we did for a living, any past certifications, and why we were in class). During our first break, the gal in front of me started talking about certifications and she asked me about what it was like to take the CPA exam. So I told her that it was a long time ago and that back then there were no calculators and it was a longer test, blah, blah, blah. When she asked if I took it after college, I explained that I took a review course that was part of my second semester of senior year in college. I told her that I finished the exam on a Friday and graduated the next day. I also told her that I passed on the first try.
Then, she said (I shit you not), "So you're just good at taking exams." Uh okaaaay. I wanted to smack her upside the head, but instead I explained that no, I studied for 5 months to pass the exam and I went to an excellent school with an excellent accounting program that prepared me for the exam. She just nodded her head and said, "Yeah, you're just good at taking tests."
All through the rest of the class that day she was hell bent on talking about her certifications (6 Sigma Black Belt and the like). She would even bring it up during lecture and it was annoying. The only thing that I can think of was that she was completely insecure. Sometimes you just have to fight the urge to smack someone and just ignore them.
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WHAM! right in the face!
Posted by: Mike | July 30, 2008 at 09:29 AM
Some people just have to be like that. Whatever!
Posted by: Asianmommy.com | July 30, 2008 at 01:25 PM