tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post9052610435174727786..comments2024-03-28T20:53:49.167-04:00Comments on The Adventures of Roberta X: Harassment TrainingRoberta Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-47186416311184282192010-07-12T08:02:58.000-04:002010-07-12T08:02:58.000-04:00I request you only wing me for my indiscresion :)I request you only wing me for my indiscresion :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-86265858429397888002010-07-11T22:50:36.184-04:002010-07-11T22:50:36.184-04:00Anon, do you for even one minute understand how he...Anon, do you for even one minute understand how heavily-armed and semi-trained I am?<br /><br /> (It truly is little short of amazing how much trouble along these general lines that spares one in RL. Oh, they still <i>think</i> all manner of things and what do I care? Their <i>actions</i> tend to stay in the strait & narrow. Win!)Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-51829537650671103942010-07-11T17:46:23.441-04:002010-07-11T17:46:23.441-04:00Nice boobs RobertaNice boobs RobertaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-7706462333143881702010-07-10T06:15:24.774-04:002010-07-10T06:15:24.774-04:00D.W., "Veteran status" was specifically ...D.W., "Veteran status" was specifically mentioned as a protected class of folks. And I'll give the outfit that made the class credit for showing a large variety of forms of harassment by a wide assortment of people in the little "don't do this" vignettes. Where they fell down was in the provided answers associated with multiple-guess quizzes after each one. The possible answers were ascribed to one or another of the "helpers," more made-up people, and there, the suited dudes were always wrong. Usually way wrong.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-13734354159102934782010-07-09T20:20:10.122-04:002010-07-09T20:20:10.122-04:00Second-hand smoke I believe, it is toxic no matter...Second-hand smoke I believe, it is toxic no matter who set the fag ablaze in the first place.<br /><br />Second-hand harassment? Good grief, some people really are professional victims.<br /><br />JimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-8897879521746214802010-07-09T19:48:54.869-04:002010-07-09T19:48:54.869-04:00I'm blue eyed, blond (once upon a time), male,...I'm blue eyed, blond (once upon a time), male, northern European decent. Needless to say being a federal employee/contractor could be interesting. Sexual harassment seminars/classes/re-education was mandatory. My wife and I could be charged with, I'm not making this up!, 'second party harassment' if someone didn't like use kissing on government property.Stretchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-38794121712183080152010-07-09T19:07:20.449-04:002010-07-09T19:07:20.449-04:00Old Grouch
Sorry, buddy, the only way a European M...Old Grouch<br />Sorry, buddy, the only way a European Male can become a protected species is either to get old--congrats!--or being physically or mentally--possibly emotionally-disabled.<br /><br />I was (more or less) being harassed based on my status as a retired soldier--"anyone with <i>real world</i> experience..."--and was officially told by the EO critters to suck it up.Dranghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08082177597135236652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-29154834221854276782010-07-09T17:56:20.611-04:002010-07-09T17:56:20.611-04:00Sarah,
I guess some kinds of sexism are just okie...Sarah,<br /><br />I guess some kinds of sexism are just okie-dokie!Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-31323143536885901442010-07-09T17:23:30.635-04:002010-07-09T17:23:30.635-04:00At one workplace here in The Sticks, Texas, the ma...At one workplace here in The Sticks, Texas, the males in the company had to do the sexual-harassment training on the computer. We females were exempted because, apparently, it's impossible for a female to make a male uncomfortable or, in fact, outright harass the poor man. <br /><br />Riiiight.Sarahhttp://sarahandmom.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-17034409681370384772010-07-09T12:53:38.890-04:002010-07-09T12:53:38.890-04:00At a previous job, the company was bought by a big...At a previous job, the company was bought by a big east coast/international concern. Shortly after, we started getting "diversity" and "sexual harassment" training. Several of us got the feeling that 'our betters' were showing us backwater rubes how the world was supposed to be. <br /><br />The most provincial, bigoted people I've ever met were world traveling big-city liberals.Rob Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15604826633798229422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-37647487051531188942010-07-09T11:25:21.516-04:002010-07-09T11:25:21.516-04:00First, I agree with your assertion that common cou...First, I agree with your assertion that common courtesy and sense solve most of these issues. Second, I was employed by a major corp. for 21+ years, and each year the 'harr***ment' session became more absurd. I remember one session, wherein the female facilitator used the expression 't*t for tat' in her presentation, and when leaving another, not having yet made it back to my desk, a female co-worker<br />stopped me to show me some evidence<br />(we had a quasi-legal function) on a receipt, containing porn movie titles, none of which I'll repeat here. So the training obviously didn't take for some folks!Georgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-76703691066039810472010-07-09T10:52:50.700-04:002010-07-09T10:52:50.700-04:00if olive oil is made by crushing olives, how is ba...if olive oil is made by crushing olives, how is baby oil made?<br /><br />bruce<br />crankyoldmanwithgun@yahoo.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-3847776040770403542010-07-09T10:38:53.933-04:002010-07-09T10:38:53.933-04:00If you went through the course and simply assumed ...<em>If you went through the course and simply assumed the European-American looking male wearing a tie was always wrong, you'd get a passing score.</em><br /><br />Hmmm... Looks like grounds for a discrimination suit! Get me an European-American looking male!Old Grouchhttp://oldgrouch.mee.nunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-52394748834480300562010-07-09T09:53:20.634-04:002010-07-09T09:53:20.634-04:00The real lesson that I take from those courses is ...The real lesson that I take from those courses is the one you touch on:<br /><br />Harassment is whatever the white heterosexual male is doing, if any other person wishes to make it so. It is used as a sword and shield to the advantage of anyone who is too incompetent to stand on their own.Divemedichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14583007051962299381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-28349000820389665902010-07-09T09:40:56.182-04:002010-07-09T09:40:56.182-04:00Foghorn is made of cartoon rooster.rhFoghorn is made of cartoon rooster.rhhomebrunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-11437407989700497292010-07-09T08:55:15.598-04:002010-07-09T08:55:15.598-04:00My work sent me to workplace violence training.
I...My work sent me to workplace violence training.<br /><br />I was disappointed when I learned it wasn't a hands-on course, though not as embarrassed as I was when I learned that the sexual harassment training wasn't a how-to session!JohnMXLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02671095673014400915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-39514830927994484472010-07-09T06:27:47.276-04:002010-07-09T06:27:47.276-04:00(Dadrat it, I can't find the polka version! Yo...<i>(Dadrat it, I can't find the polka version! You'll have to make do with the semi-commie edition and miss the entire "don't pour molasses on the cat" verse)</i><br /><br />Is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaujUxeRUTY" rel="nofollow">this perhaps what you were thinking of</a>? "Never Say No" from <i>The Fantasticks</i>.wolfwalkernoreply@blogger.com