Company Paid Training? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Cliff on Sunday April 28, 2002 @02:37AM from the watch-out-for-that-snake-in-the-contract dept.

screenbert asks: "My employer has just dropped a bombshell on me. He's offered $50,000 in training over the next year to each person in our group. Yes per person. Normally I wouldn't think twice about it, but he's having legal draw up contracts that will require us to pay for the training if we leave. I'm not really happy with my current employer due to changes company-wide. I've worked for companies in the past that had programs like this, but never with that kind of money, usually 5-10K. Should I take the training and stick it out for the 3 years, or just put it off?" That's a lot of money to drop in training, but given that it's always wise to keep up your skill set, might this be worth it.

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My advice, as the Plan 9 Bunny by The+Plan+9+Bunny · 2002-04-28 03:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Is to take all of the $50,000, and spend it on development of a good GUI for Plan 9. As the official mascot of Plan 9, I, the bunny, have seen it go from bad to worse. I don't think I'm talking to a vacuum here when I say that the screen shots are rather heinous -- and I have pretty low standards, even for a bunny.