There's also a lot of teaching out in the industry. They call it training.
One gets into this when the boss comes around and tells you: "This is Rajeesh, he's on your team now, show him the ropes." More often than not, you can count yourself lucky if you don't need to start with the 3 R.
Another popular one is the boss sending you a half finished power point presentation attached to a calendar entry in the very near future (between 20 minutes and 2 weeks) and tells you: "15 technicians form the customer a coming over to to learn enough about the system to do the acceptance tests. You have 5 days to make sure they know enough to sign off the system and operate it afterwards."
Unions? Degrees? You must be kidding.
Korman