this makes me a sad panda

[ebtb.livejournal.com]

We're having mandatory sexual harrassment training Friday afternoon. It should be interesting as I am the only female in the department and the all the guys are sweating bullets over this. They all looked at me when the emails came through as if I prompted it. We are all very um... liberal with our conversations and actions here. Not that we're playing grab-ass in the elevator, but not a day goes by where I don't hear the word "bukkake".

Good times.

Comments

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

lol, we haven't had to do that ... yet...
and this reminds me i have to do something with my domain thatmakesmeasadpanda.com ...

[fuego.livejournal.com]

We're having mandatory sexual harrassment training Friday afternoon.

Oh...so they're teaching you HOW to properly harass sexually?

[jecook]

A Winner is YOU!

[captain-jester.livejournal.com]

That was my thought too.

You should secretly replace the video tape with the Sexual Harassment video from E-baum's world.

[ebtb.livejournal.com]

that's exactly how I read it at first!

[ladynisa.livejournal.com]

Muahahaha!

I want to learn how to better sexually harrass my male coworkers. I don't do that nearly enough in order to balance out all the teasing I get. :)

[tecie.livejournal.com]

They made my whole building do that once (~5000 ppl) -- from what I heard, every "training session" was exactly the same as mine:
1) 40 people crammed into a conference room made for 30
2) No one would make eye contact or speak in complete sentences to the presenters for fear of being accused of something.
3) Between one and three people decide to question everything the presenter says for a span of roughly 20 minetes until he is rather bluntly told to shut up and listen, and this IS policy/.
4) Everybody signs something saying we attended.
5) We all go back to work and make the most offensive, worst jokes we can think of to get all of that politically correct junk out of our systems. :-)

[jeanjuedi.livejournal.com]

Every day should start with bukkake...

[bassgirl.livejournal.com]

HA.
My department started by asking me constantly "we havn't offended you, right? You're ok?" That lasted... 2 days. Then I was told "Don't tell us anything personal, because we'll just make fun of you." Personally, I love it. The jokes are highly inappropriate for a regular work environment, but we're in our own little office (tech services for a big call center) and it's just a lot of fun.

We'd ALL fail sexual harassment training, though. Badly.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you could all be a training aid. "Exhibit A - tech services. Don't look at them!"

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

When I teched for Dell I was one of I think two women on a floor of about 200, if I remember right. I never minded any of the jokes or whatever, but I did get in trouble one day for wearing a tank top to work.

I pointed out that I was wearing more clothes than the girls in the Josie and the Pussycats posters that were up all over everyone's desks, thinking that that would end the debate and enable me to wear my tank top.

Instead they made everyone take the posters down, which made me reallllly popular. :(