The company I work for has all kinds of mandatory on-line training modules we have to take, or else face the threat of swift unemployment. Most of these fall under categories such as ethics, sensitivity, workplace harassment or things like that.
This is all fine and good, but as I was taking my mandatory workplace harassment training recently, I found myself wondering if there are actually people out there who need this training. The video vignettes they show, present situations that are so blindingly obvious as to who is the bad guy and the behavior that is inappropriate, that it is hard to believe that there are people out there who don’t have a clue that their behavior is that boorish.
On the other hand, there must be people out there like that, or the rest of us wouldn’t be forced to take the training.
And then I wonder if those people are so clueless that they are incapable of recognizing themselves in the training videos.
Biff Sock Pow 
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thanks for the follow 🙂
Training should be about the more subtle forms of harassment that pervades our workplaces ..
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It’s hasn’t been the same ever since we got those dumb prefrontal cortexes.
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We must work for the same company lol. Loved this 😊
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Ha ha! We might. Of course, I think all large companies are basically the same. Thanks for dropping by and especially for commenting!
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Love the comic Biff, made me LOL!
Btw, Go no further than ‘Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show’ for that company training video ethos. NOT for everyone.
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I haven’t seen that, but I’ll definitely check it out. Thanks for the tip!
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Yup. Like I said, NOT for everyone. I won’t blame you if it is awful to behold, but that is partly the point . . .They tend to get into the cracks where few dare to go.
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I attended a mandatory sensitivity training with a gay friend and a black friend. We’d all managed to avoid the previous ones so, this was the one for slackers. We did not take if very seriously. The black woman suggested that she’d be happier if more “sistahs” were cooking the fried chicken in the cafeteria. I recommended that gays wear special armbands so we’d be especially nice to them. I really didn’t want to say anything, but the gay man was expecting some sort of irony. By the end, we’d learned nothing, and walked out together to interact as people…
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Sensitivity training as a humor goldmine. However, I have found that there few people on earth with less of a sense of humor that sensitivity trainers. Also, it’s best not to get on their bad side. After all, they can give one a failing grade in sensitivity 101 and soon thereafter one will find one’s self on the street. You might say that they are very insensitive towards people with senses of humor.
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Heh, my former boss, who just happened to be gay, made many witty retorts in regard to my being a straight man. Yes, folks, reverse sexism reared its ugly head. So, I pinched his bum. There’s not even a term for that.
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The bullies I’ve met don’t see themselves that way – they call it ‘leadership’.
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Very true! The very ones that need this training are probably exempt from taking it.
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Yep. They’re way too important for stupid, time-wasting nonsense!
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True … they just make everyone else take the stupid, time-wasting nonsense.
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All my compay’s training videos would be quite useful for curing insomnia.
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Ha ha! You’re right! That’s about their only redeeming quality.
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And put the melatonin market out of business. Funny how that section is the largest in the pharmacy section. The times we live in, I guess.
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Very true! Along with the anti-depressant aisle. Isn’t it curious how they keep us in a constant state of anxiety … and then sell us anti-anxiety drugs … which may, in fact, cause anxiety.
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