My main objection is that I am being forced to learn something new in my own time in a specific short period of time. It's not that I cannot learn new languages relatively quickly. The other issue is what projects are going to happen for those new languages. If you don't apply what you learn, you start forgetting that skill.
Currently I fulfill a number of roles, solutions analyst, software developer, software support, hardware support, electronics support, manual writer, research and development, assist on the odd occasions with tender responses. I am currently working on three projects simultaneously.
My development skills are mainly within a very niche environment, communicate with electronic boxes of various sorts, a bit of call taking and dispatch. I have no financial development background. All this makes my employment opportunities extremely small.
I have no objection to learning a new language, if it is going to be beneficial all around, but currently I don't see it.
The company also shut down my after hours photographic sideline as they believe it could possibly impact on work.
I am on first line support 1 week a month, and on 2nd line support 365 days a year. Most Christmas / New Year's I must be on first line support while on enforced leave.
But at the end of the day, a person needs a job therefore will just do what is demanded to not loose that job.
