Back to School
I know the vast majority of the world really hates this stuff, but I kind of enjoy the canned corporate training modules that occasionally show up as requirements. I guess because I’m a fan of crudely-drawn archetypes. My three favorite ones from the most recent conflict of interest training:
The Bumbling Idiot Who Is Surprisingly Like You, The Man, and for some reason the always-required Cool Guy.
Normally the Cool Guy is kind of a Beelzebub-type character. In this module he just had a cruddy old laptop computer. Not a great Cool Guy.
I personally believe the guy who poses for the Cool Guy is typically something like the creative director of the production. It’s amazing how big of a bunghole you can portray by simply donning a pair of volleyball sunglasses.