What's your take on it?
Personally, having gone through it once myself, I think it's a load of ineffective shit. Not only did the group have to do activities that were annoying at best, and able to strip me of my dignity at worst (perhaps if I was actually the kind of moron who could be broken down by a few words, that is), but the lady leading the seminar just seemed to try and drill the most obvious crap into my head. The biggest 'no shit Sherlock' revelation was the fact that people all think differently from one another. Great, I figured that out when I was five.
What was worse was that it seemed to serve only to make the other people that had attended even more paranoid about how they addressed people. Not the kind where they just mind how much they swear, or bite their tongue for the good of getting a project done, but the kind that comes with making sure to NEVER say anything that might upset someone of a different sex, race, religion, etc. Now all my co-workers are walking around anxious and deeply suspicious of anyone different than them, making the work atmosphere worse than it ever was before.
The only reason we had to go to this thing in the first place was because some ass that doesn't even work at my job anymore said something stupid to one of the other girls there, and the only one who cared was the manager. The girl in question didn't even care about what was said, but the company still ordered us all to go get all touchy-feely to cover its own ass from lawsuit.
So yeah, I have no academic backing to any claim I made or that; I'm just going on what I observed. But have any of you yourselves gone through with this crap? Even if you haven't, what's your opinion of it?
Personally, having gone through it once myself, I think it's a load of ineffective shit. Not only did the group have to do activities that were annoying at best, and able to strip me of my dignity at worst (perhaps if I was actually the kind of moron who could be broken down by a few words, that is), but the lady leading the seminar just seemed to try and drill the most obvious crap into my head. The biggest 'no shit Sherlock' revelation was the fact that people all think differently from one another. Great, I figured that out when I was five.
What was worse was that it seemed to serve only to make the other people that had attended even more paranoid about how they addressed people. Not the kind where they just mind how much they swear, or bite their tongue for the good of getting a project done, but the kind that comes with making sure to NEVER say anything that might upset someone of a different sex, race, religion, etc. Now all my co-workers are walking around anxious and deeply suspicious of anyone different than them, making the work atmosphere worse than it ever was before.
The only reason we had to go to this thing in the first place was because some ass that doesn't even work at my job anymore said something stupid to one of the other girls there, and the only one who cared was the manager. The girl in question didn't even care about what was said, but the company still ordered us all to go get all touchy-feely to cover its own ass from lawsuit.
So yeah, I have no academic backing to any claim I made or that; I'm just going on what I observed. But have any of you yourselves gone through with this crap? Even if you haven't, what's your opinion of it?
