diversity training??

dear mr. stuffy corporate dude,

after attending the mandatory sensitivity training today, i believe you must be confused at best and perhaps even delusional. Having taught diversity trainings in my past, I'm rather familiar with the agenda and i'm pretty sure beginning an hour sensitivity/diversity training with a 20-minute diatribe about the company's other business ventures was not exactly beneficial, nor was the 15- minute explanation of the company's drug/alcohol policy and your perogative to randomly test.


you can't seriously think a couple sentences tossed in here and there about how we all need to get along will somehow teach us how to become more sensitive. clue to those of you sitting in your little white world in corporate mid-america: perhaps you should send someone trained, someone with even a modicum of experience. yeah, sending in a white woman who talks like she's never spent more than a couple of minutes with a person of color just because she's the hr director... not the smartest... especially when training employees in california. also, since you have so many bglt employees and have a non-discrimination clause protecting us, perhaps your trainer should have done a little homework and learned how to be a little more sensitive herself before trying to teach tolerance. i have a sexual orientation, not a sexual preference and i don't have a disease!!! don't begin your sentence talking about being tolerant to those who have diseases and then use people with a different "sexual preference" as an example. you want an example of a hostile work environment sweetie?? well, you just got one.