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A "Certificate of Achievement" to be proud of.......

WBA ConsultingWBA Consulting Posts: 2,934
edited 2013-04-26 17:30 in General Discussion
When I started my official "career" back in 1991, I began to keep a portfolio. It's a binder with all of my work related items in it. So, I have copies of annual performance reviews, certificates for training done at companies or specialized centers, some random copies of documents I have created over the years, etc, etc. Anyhow, one of my many certificates from HP caught my attention and gave me a good laugh. I spent 4 hours in a class for Windows 3.0 taught by the corporate training department at HP.

I thought I would share it here and then ask if anyone else had similar certificates in their memory books.......
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  • NWCCTVNWCCTV Posts: 3,629
    edited 2013-04-26 13:58
    I took a 40 hour course many years ago after having to reinstall DOS 4 more than a few times because of stupid mistakes. I know the certificate is around some where but it was quite similar!!!!
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-04-26 15:08
    WBA Consulting wrote: »
    ....I thought I would share it here and then ask if anyone else had similar certificates in their memory books.......


    Years ago I got one for fighting fires on offshore oil rigs.
    Can't find it, though.
    I think it sank to the bottom of the ocean with the rest of my old stuff.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2013-04-26 16:45
    When I was South East Tech Manager for Compusa back in 1989-1995, I was required to get all the certificates from our vendors, even though I may not being doing the work on the products. The store had to have a "Certified Tech" on the premises. I had every Toshiba laptop cert, Leading Edge Technology, Packard Bell, Apple, (I think we were the first to service Apple products), Dell, (I know we were the first to offer Dell products), AST, (remember them?), Hundai computers, Epson computers.

    It seems I was spending all my time just getting certs for the chain and not serving my customers.

    Then there was Novel training that was required. I'm certified, but what does that get me now. :)

    Jim

    Edit: Forgot to add Compaq server certs and ALR, (remember them?).
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-04-26 17:03
    Heck, it would seem like bragging, except that you asked... here's my certificate for winning the very first Trinity Home Firefighting Robot Contest. My first robot ever, my first CMOS logic pcb, and my first BASIC Stamp... yes, a then-new BS1!

    trinrobot.jpg


    @Publison: Great, since you worked at CompUSA, maybe you can help me with my Packard Bell 601 Multimedia computer. For some reason, its 233 MHz of Pentium MMX computing fury just ain't keeping up these days...
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  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2013-04-26 17:30
    I received an email with an attached ecertificate yesterday from my vice-president (not to be confused with my senior vp or associate vp) commemorating my 25 years of service. It contained a subject-verb mismatch and one other grammar error. I'm glad they didn't waste the money to send me a printed copy.
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