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I thought I was being generous to my colleagues, proposing that we invest in training for them. But it hasn’t quite worked out that way.

One colleague, booked on a course entitled Organising Work and Time forgot to attend the course. Another with lamentable computer skills decided to cancel their MS 365 Essentials training in favour of carrying on as normal.

Any attempt to upskill this team falls flat, for in truth, we’re all completely content with our ineptitude. That’s just part of the banter: that we have no idea what we’re doing, hehe. Isn’t it great to be such idiots!

It’s the same even for training I deliver myself. Afterwards, everyone tells me how useful it was, only to then go back to continuing exactly as before without implementing any of my recommendations.

And here I am, trying to promote practices across our organisation we really will be held to account for, while we can’t even get it right amongst us. It’s got so bad that I’ve now booked an hour with the team every month to repeat the exact same thing, hopeful that one day it might sink in.

But it won’t, because whenever it raises its head, everyone points in my direction and says, “That’s his responsibility!” No, no, this is what I’m trying to teach you, you great buffoons, this is everybody’s responsibility. That’s how we’re all meant to be doing it.

But, no, it’s futile, for we are the unteachable. Carry on as normal.