I'm totally in favour of investing in my career. Part of my job is development and support of an SQL Server based utilities billing system.

However, this morning my I travelled to Birmingham (UK) (about and hour on the train), to attend a course to help with the general IT support part of my job. The title of the course was "Effective Communication".

When I arrived at the training company I was greeted with some surprise. It turns out the course is cancelled and they hadn't let us know (even though we checked earlier this week).

I hope they can see the irony, and will understand why we won't be using them again!