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Originally posted by sugar and spice
sexual preference "sensitivity training" as a part of risk management workshops
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Does this work?
Back in the late 80's or early 90's every employee of NBC had to take a full day of "diversity" training.
I was one of the trainers. I guess they needed a token Indian -- sorry, I mean Native American.
It is my opinion (unfortunatley), that although the course was well thought out, documented and structured -- had excellent research and audio/visual aids and pretty good speakers, a vast majority of the people who took the course walked out the door feeling pretty much the same way as they did when they came in.
I will admit that, from that time on, whenever you heard a dirty joke, racial slur, gay bashing comment or sexual innuendo, it was generally prefaced by, "Well, this isn't very diverse, but..."