Just got out of a mandatory anti-harassment training session.
I think after the first hour (and 17 clearly harassing scenarios) my brain tried to jump out of my skull and run for freedom.
After the second hour, the rest of my body was doing the same...
I've come away with one conclusion: I will no longer say anything to anybody about any subject while at work...
That is all.
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If it makes you feel any better, we had to take online courses.
I cheated on the Ethics test.
Of course you could then be accused of giving everyone The Silent Treatment which could be construed as a sort of passive-aggressive harassment. So, off to the re-education camp with you!
:P
You now know how to be a successful hair-asser.
About time they got you in there. Your advances towards me, while flattering, are certainly not welcome. No means no, Jay. And I will NOT wear something a little more low cut for you on Friday.
I got through ours by thinking of it as a how-to course, silently of course.
robb,
I actually suggested an online course to our HR director. Watching a room full of people take 2+ hours out of their day (and we had two shifts doing training), it boggled my mind to think about the lost productivity...
arthur,
I keep waiting for the re-Nedification once they discover I'm one of those bitter clingy gun owners...
jeff,
They're now calling it "Sexual Harassment Prevention Training" because too many people kept joking that "Sexual Harassment Training" should make them better harassers...
T-bolt,
I didn't say you should wear something low-cut; I said you needed suspenders to keep your pants from hanging so low. I can't tell if you're going for the hip "gangsta" look or if you dropped a dookie in your shorts.
And loosen up the Jockeys, man. No one wants to see your man-camel toe, okay?
Kevin,
I think that's what irks me so much about these "training" sessions - the scenarios they show are all CLEARLY harassment. Look, I don't need a training seminar to tell me that it's sexual harassment to tell a female subordinate that she needs to sleep with me to get her raise...
This stuff is painful beyond belief. I also have to sit through yearly "Right to Know" training, fire prevention training for a building I couldn't find with a map, anti everything prevention training, and just this week training on our new drug testing policy. That was preceded by two hours of "addiction awareness" training that for the first time in my life made we want to try illegal drugs.
The truth is that no one gives a shit if you stay awake for this training or not. They want your name on a roster so that they can show they trained you if someone complains.
Was that one of those classes that tries to teach people that it's wrong to hire a girl with big hooters to work the front desk?
Like these people have any idea what they're talking about.
totwtytr,
That's what frosts my ass about this "training". The people that it SHOULD be used for are either too fucking stupid or arrogant to get it. Normal folks, the ones that recognize that saying, "WHOA MAMA, nice rack!" might not be a prudent course of action, don't need this training...
Bruce,
Sounds like I have to meet your new secretary...
The first time I had to go to one of these, I was an Army National Guard technician (civilian employee, but everyone was required to be in the ARNG so we were all more-or-less military) working at a repair facility. So, lots of military mechanics (many of whom actually had nude pictures in their tool boxes) and armorers and such.
Shortly after they got started and were going over the definitions of what was and wasn't considered harassment, one of the better looking women workers stood up and said "I just want everyone to know that I enjoy dirty jokes and it makes me happy to have you flirt with me and make whatever kinds of comments you want to about my looks. So, since there's pretty much nothing you can do that would be considered 'unwanted', I'm basically fair game."
The training session went quickly down hill from there.
I don't wear Jockeys. I go without underwear. Long habit from my days as an Operator on SEAL Team 12. TACTICAL 4 LIFE!
During one of our early anti sexual harassment training sessions one of our female employees stood up while the female lawyer was talking. She told the lawyer that she (our employee) came on the job on the same terms as every other person who was ever hired. Further she said, she wasn't harassed and could do everything that any male employee could do, and probably better. That she wasn't interested in being viewed as weaker or needing special help in doing the job. She went on for several minutes until the lawyer burst into tears, ran out of the room, and refused to come do any more training for us.
So much for inequality in the workplace. :)
Slick Willie was in office eight years, and still doesn't realize that "harass" isn't spelled "Her Ass".
Good thing he's stuck with the Hildebeest now. Couldn't happen to a more deserving heap o' dung.
Jim
Sloop New Dawn
Galveston, TX
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