Do any of you get training at work, and is it worth the time? Aside from the obvious advantage of doing something other than your regular job for a few days? The ones I've had have been useless.

Well I used to, and yes some can be real bullshit.

I think there was something put into awards many years back along the lines of a minimum of 1% training time a year and so you had then Human Resources types justifying their greater existence by developing training courses that they were going to do anyway to justify their existence.

We had some real classics of courses at times, like live in three days away from everything, where the buzz approach was to take a diagonal slice of the organisation to bond on something like "managing organisational change" - real deep (despair ) for some, some even opting out, and others happy to be there because of the nightly bar.
One such course even resulted in more than a bit of a fling.

The touchy feely group bonding things are OK at first, just because they aren't part of your usual routine. They get old quickly. I went to one that was good. It was one day with a bunch of new first level managers, a slightly more experienced manager to facilitate, and it was designed to allow us to essentially bitch about all the problems and find out we weren't alone.
The major thing was the shock of finding out how little power we had. One day we were worried about our powerful management, the next day we were managers who felt like helpless victims caught between opposing forces.

I'm not a manager any more.

The only ones that are ever any good are the technical ones. I did go to one on personality types that was interesting, largely because you got to find out what everyone else was. I'm an INTC, or INPC or something like that. I is for introverted. Most people in the world are extroverts. Always knew I was odd.

I hate the team-building ones. You know, 'pretend you are stranded on a desert island. You have a Mars bar, a bungee cord, and three nails. How do you build a shelter?'

Some of them have been given so often that sometimes is someone in the group who knows a good answer, and does everything. No teamwork at all.

Not all. Maybe you belong on a wrong team. But not all!!! Just go for it.

Training for what kind of job?