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by dandellion 42 days ago
> This seven-day long, 10-minute-per day course

I guess ten minutes is the limit attention span of an average adult these days?

We can keep this up and in a few years we'll be down to bathroom-break long 15-second-per-short courses.

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Wrong mindset—a seven-day, 10-minute per day course is the lower limit on what procurement officers will consider acceptable and grant a contract to, which hopeful contractors submit to RFPs as a way of out-competing their competition by submitting the lowest bid.

No actual feedback from or impact studies involving actual users or outcomes are ever registered.

It's like mixing sawdust into the cookies to cut costs, except that when a depivered CBT is worth less than the electricity consumed powering the monitors it is (sometimes) displayed on, nobody with enough influence to matter ever gets upset enough about it to mean anything.

we call it the grift economy
i've seriously been thinking of making my rfc and other docs at work in reels format.