Maybe they'll pick up a pointer or two?

[susandennis]

I just realized that it is 3:30 and I have not contributed to LJ all day. Geesh. It's not even been that busy. Kind of quiet really since half the company is off to a sexual harrassment training session. (The rest of us go next week.)

Not that they need it... oh no. Not these boys and girls. They pretty much have it down to a science. There's nothing they love better than an enuendo. Oh wait, yes there is... they love a homophobic crack better.

We have 55 employees now. If you take the accepted average of 10% and round down, you come up with 5 employees who are likely gay. However many are gay, none are comfortable enough to be public about it or even close. And I sure can't blame them. How horrible it must be for them to have to hide their very selves and hear the frequent fag jokes. It really pisses me off but it has to be way worse for them.

Every since they announced this mandatory training (the first of any kind that the company has ever had), there have been nothing but six grade humor about it out-loud and constant. Makes you proud to be part of the group, I tell you.

It would be great if this seminar helped the problem. I'm not holding out a lot of hope, but maybe a little.