There are a few tasks&#x2F;requirements at issue here, 1) the legal requirement that the individuals be sufficiently trained, which then requires 2) the legal requirement that training be provided.  If the individual in (1) is &quot;phoning it in&quot; by avoiding watching the provided video, it could also be that the individuals who are providing the training are &quot;phoning it in&quot; by considering a video to be sufficiently fulfilling the requirement for providing training.<p>As is the case with a lot of these kinds of things, one ends up without any value after taking the training compared to where they were before taking the training.  If this is the case, the training is meaningless.  The only way to asses the value of the training is through some kind of testing as part of or after the training occurs.  This is like requiring attendance of driving school for traffic violations.  It is very rarely the case that anyone in driving school actually didn&#x27;t know the law, but rather they were skirting it and ended up getting caught.  They are only in driving school to satisfy the requirements of getting the limits on their driving lifted (being licensed or being able to get cheaper insurance).  The driving school ends up being a burden because it takes time, and doesn&#x27;t necessarily end up making anyone a better driver (although, you could use the lack of further infractions as the metric that the training was successful, but there&#x27;s a lot of other influences here).<p>If both the trainer and the trainee are phoning it in, does it matter?  If the trainer is phoning it in, is the trainee really doing anything worse by also phoning it in?  If the trainer fails at their job because they are providing pomp and circumstance, we end up at the same place we were without doing any training at all, even if the trainees do make a concerted effort to be trained.  That is, the trainee could bust their butt watching this video, but in the end, no one has actually been trained.<p>This isn&#x27;t meant to get the trainees off the hook for phoning it in, but let&#x27;s call a rose an rose and acknowledge that there might not actually be much value in 52 hours of video watching.