Today was the first day of New Scientist Training. Leslie warned me that it was the three most useless days she spent in the government. As far as I can tell, she was right. We spent sessions teaching me stuff I have known from being in the agency for 9 years. I knew all of the speakers but the first one, who is one of the National Program Leaders (major program administrators in Washington) but I spent 2 hours at dinner with him tonight. The technology transfer presentation was painful since I am fairly well-versed in how screwy the office of tech transfer really is. The worst of all presentations was probably the one on publishing.....135 power point slides over 120 minutes, each slide was full of text with the same background and no graphics. The text was set to "fade in" on each slide. Copies of the slides were handed out before the presentation and the presentation consisted of being read the slides. Painful enough for you? Nope! When the presenter skipped a slide she did not go back, instead she ended the presentation, started over and then clicked through each slide until she caught up. FUN! The IT person did pretty much the same thing in her presentation.
Two more days to go.
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