more staff training fun
I held a staff development day this afternoon. I try to run them fairly regularly, the last one was fire extinguisher training as some may recall.
Anyway, I found one of those scenarios on line similar to some of the ones we've run here. You're in a plane crash in Northern Manitoba in January and you manage to salvage twelve items from the plane etc etc etc ad nauseum. I divided the group into two teams and had them list their priorities and afterwards explain their decision making processes (that was scary) but guess what? One of the items was a .45 pistol and both groups wanted it for either hunting or protection. I asked them what they were going to hunt. Blank faces. I asked what they'd need protection from. "Bears" was the number one answer. I told them all the bears would be asleep. Blank faces. Finally one of my staff said "well, I'd still want it for protection" and another one said "we could hunt like...grouse and stuff" I tried to explain to her how much grouse would be left if she actually managed to hit it with a .45acp round. Blank faces again.
They asked me what I would do in the situation. One of the items was a bottle of 100 proof whiskey (which fortunately both teams knew to avoid)
I told them that if I looked around and they were the other survivors I'd take the .45 and the bottle of whiskey and just walk away into the woods and they wouldn't have to worry about saving my a$$ ever again.
oh oh oh...I forgot to mention, about half of them would fire signal shots in the air with the .45 if they heard or saw a plane coming. I was like "ARE YOU NUTS???"" Why would you want to down another plane? Blank faces.
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