Interesting afternoon

[susandennis]

Not too very long ago in the very space I was bitching and carrying on about the sexual inuendo and homophobic humor being bandied about freely. I mentioned that we were scheduled to have training on the subject and my experience with such training was that it covered the legal butt of management and taught the offenders new and even more offensive tricks.

Plus, remember, I am your resident skeptic. Someone just today pointed out that not only is my class always half empty, I usually try to pour some out to make sure it stays that way.

And I'm here to tell you that I just spent 3 solid hours captivated by a human resources consultant who did such a good job that the 3 hours felt like 3 minutes. I was educated (and I pretty much knew it all going in, I thought), entertained and fascinated. And very impressed that my co-workers were as well. It was pretty amazing.

I've sat through many a sexual harrassment seminar required by management. At IBM non managers had to do it every year. When I was a manager it seemed like it was every month. But none were like this. I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to have been there today. It was good.

Plus, you know what? It is just a pleasure to watch someone who is so very good at what they do and who really enjoys it do their thing.

Just a nice gift. Thank you. And, I intend to express my thanks to the fuckchop who arranged it. He lost some points on his fuckchop certificate today. What can I say?