We have started to find out what the catch was at N’s great new job. Today he had to undergo a 90-minute sexual harassment training, which is mega relevant for a guy whose job is to write code from home.
After the training, I had to answer questions of the following variety:
“What’s intersex?”
“What is the difference between gay and queer?”
“What’s asexual? How can you discriminate against asexual people?”
I strongly suspect “anti-racist training” is next.
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Why did you have to answer questions?
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N is completely excluded from the ideological battles of the moment. I’m his only source of information about this crap.
I do feel bad robbing him of his innocence.
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“a 90-minute sexual harassment training”
Why would they train him how to sexually harass people?
More seriously, this sounds more like it’s about protection from lawsuits and not necessarily company beliefs.
If someone else is accused of harassment the company needs to show that every single employee has gone through the appropriate training hoops… Dumb, but… lawsuit happy populations lead to weird policies.
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Also, remote workers leave a big paper trail for ambulance chasers to subpoena if someone felt triggered when being addressed by the wrong pronouns.
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They also informed that two glasses of wine is business drinking while anything over that is entertainment drinking. I have no idea what that means.
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“two glasses of wine is business drinking while anything over that is entertainment drinking. I have no idea what that means”
I assume it’s about entertaining clients (probably not something he’ll be called on to do if they have any sesne…..).
If he has more than two glasses of wine and he’s on his own.
Let’s say he trips and falls on the way to the bathroom and breaks an arm
2 or less glasses of wine: he’s covered medically (it happened on company time as it were)
more than 2: he was just having a good time and he’s on his own regarding bills
That’s my interpretation, someone who knows this stuff better might be able to be more accurate.
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