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The Failure That Is MyTraining
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Does anyone want to create a rolling list of broken features and/or things that don't function as expected?
How are these contracts/projects figured out and awarded where there is a constant state of failure with almost every information system we use outside of Envision? Between the UTMs in my unit we probably have around 200 hours or more (combined) just trying to make MyTraining function since its release. How many thousands of hours are lost across the Airforce because of MyTraining? How do you quantify the dollar amount that is disappearing because of lost productivity?
The failure and absolute time suck that is MyTraining is... baffling. My unit is small, but even trying to migrate to a new CFETP is borderline impossible. The system, even today on a Saturday when there should be very little traffic, is so slow that basic functions like building task groups, adding tasks to people, changing their workcenter, etc are timing out and requiring me to try to process things 3 or 4 times.
First couple of broken things that need to be fixed:
- When archiving tasks, they still show up in your "active" tasks... effectively making archiving them useless. See the next point.
- Archiving tasks is completely broken. This is a basic required function of a system like this to track training. You cant unarchive and you cant remove the tasks from a user once they are archived because something in the record breaks. The GUI doesnt provide the necessary functionality to clear out task groupings from anyone if you want to archive them instead of straight removing them... by removing them, you lose training records. See the next point.
- You cant remove old training records in a timely manner. You have to "decertify" the tasks one by one (no batch option) which is 250+ tasks per person before you can remove them.
- The inability to "select all" or "shift click" a group of tasks when signing them off. The "transcribe" option isnt working at this moment (I used it once before, dont know whats going on) to help me migrate members to the new CFETP. I will have to scroll down and click my mouse button around 20,000 times or more (using basic math to calculate without diving in too deep) and will still require each of my members to go into their profile and click a minimum of about 250 times.
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- Lack of JQS's and inability to make your own WCJQS.
/endcurrentphaseofrant
Top Comment: A number of complaints here: a number of these "myX" sites didn't need to exist half (or more) of them don't even work naming everything "myX" was extremely stupid and frustrating, trying to explain to new airmen the difference between "mytraining" and "mylearning" and what is on which
MyLearning/MyTraining rant
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It has been years at this point since TBA and ADLS went down so there are probably many young airmen who legitimately do not know about how good we used to have it (old man yells at cloud).
But I genuinely think that what senior leadership has given us in the form of replacements is nothing short of criminal fraud waste and abuse. Who even has time to do legitimate work in these programs? To take a CBT it takes upward of 2 hours if it doesn't time you out and reset the progress that you make.
Speaking of resetting progress, whoever decided that for reoccurring courses we have to make members reset their progress before retaking the course--deserves to be in solitary confinement for the rest of their lives.
The AFFORGEN bullshit only is compounding this problem a million fold and is showing no signs of letting up. And the worst part is that they are long term kneecapping the force with the shittiest OJT on the planet because the fucking system that they implemented essentially is only valuable as a piece of stagnant artwork. If that CFETP is ever changed, or task groups get updated or any other of a myriad of incidental changes happen... then the person is fucked. Boop, you have to go out of system to document your OJT because this system no longer supports your new ITL with a single task changed from the previous iteration of the MTL/Task groups.
Shame on any leader that is signing off on this and shame on anyone that is falling into heelstep; yes-manning your way through this isn't giving anyone anything of value--you are part of the problem.
TLDR: Mylearn/Mytrain is FWA and everyone involved deserves to be in prison for how much of the governments money they have wasted and defrauded.
Top Comment: I’m the UTM and UDM for my squadron and I cannot put into words how much I hate all these fucking websites.