Did I really pay for that?

A little over 5 years ago, I had just retired from the Armed Forces and was attending courses to acquire the papers that proved I knew a couple things about computers. I was attending a program during the day (partly taught by a former colleague in the Forces no less) and I was also attending a night course called Net Prep. This was a networking course sponsored by 3Com and was designed to lead you to a type of networking certification. Unfortunately, it was a total waste of money. I was pissed. The instructors were (for the most part) third rate, they didn't even know their subject matter very well and I really felt I had been swindled out of several thousand dollars. I wrote a letter to the school explaining my issues and they basically excused the course as a "beginner's course" in networking. Yeah. A beginner's course that leads to "industry recognized" certification. It must have bombed 'cause they don't offer it anymore.

How about my readers? Ever take a course that really sucked?