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By gzt (Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 11:08:16 AM EST) gzt (all tags)

I have Diversity training this afternoon! The topic: working in an intergenerational workforce. This should be helpful, since I my coworkers are generally older than my parents.

I wish this weren't the highlight of my week at work.

It might even be the highlight of my week in general. Well, there are other fun things going on, but they're fun in the plane crashes and headbutting muggers way rather than the lollipops and unicorns way.

I found out there's an application to play Scrabble and chess on my new iPod. Hmm. Well, I couldn't play it on my computer at work, that's for sure. But the price is prohibitive and I don't want to give Donut Wheel money. Plus, it may be painful to play on the nano screen.

Alexandra Kosteniuk has another chess video "podcast" out. Woo!

I should watch Dr. Horrible, but it would require giving Donut Wheel money. Life is hard. I mean, I'm not averse to spending money on entertainment (I mean, hey, I just bought a stack of CDs), I just never ever want to use the Donut Wheel store EVER.

$SOME_MANAGER finally realized that the inputs and outputs for the project I made the little database for are on a different schedule. Inputs are monthly on the 12th and outputs are biweekly according to the pay cycle. You can't bump the inputs up a couple days so they can be used to generate the outputs for the next check. You just get your input report and use it for a month until the next input report. Done. Doonga doonga.

Once the canvas was complete, he subjected it to various stresses to harden and crack the paint, in order to simulate the passage of three centuries and convey the necessary patina of age. It is strangely mesmerizing to witness Van Meegeren bend to his labors, though in effect we are simply watching paint dry.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071702348.html

We have to get out of here.

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Diversity Training! | 16 comments (16 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback

Be sure to offer your experiences by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #1 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 11:09:38 AM EST

of being discriminated against because you're a young urban American.

: "they keep giving me candy!" by gzt (2.00 / 0) #3 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 11:14:05 AM EST

"And asking what I want to do when I grow up! I'm a trained professional, dammit!"

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ror diversity training by Clipper Ship (2.00 / 0) #2 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 11:12:52 AM EST

The only event at work it's acceptable to start crying in. I suggest you do that fer kix.

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Diversity training. by nightflameblue (4.00 / 1) #4 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 11:26:32 AM EST

The most fun I've ever had at work. Seriously. When the guy with the swastika tatoo started bitching about having to cover his legs (where is tatoo is) when the guy with the naked lady tatoo and the girl with the cross tatoo didn't have to cover their tatoos, it got REAL fun. The squirming of upper management made it totally worth giving up a day for something anybody with half a brain cell shouldn't need to attend.

This is actually optional! by gzt (4.00 / 1) #5 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 11:29:53 AM EST

I decided to take it of my own initiative! Unfortunately, it's only 2 hours.

The above isn't completely true: there's some goal about employee participation in optional Diversity activities and our management was like, "I WANT OUR GROUP TO BLOW THAT GOAL OUT OF THE WATER." So I was like, great, I'll jump through this hoop in exchange for your everlasting gratitude.

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Offer up anecdotes about helping older people by georgeha (4.00 / 1) #6 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 11:33:47 AM EST

with their computers, I recommend the cup holder for a start, then follow up with "it's too dark to see if it's plugged in".

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Everlasting gratitude? by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #7 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 11:35:09 AM EST

What's that? About two days remembering?

The nice thing about our first mandatory diversity training in this company was that we never had another one. Not even an optional one. It just got way too uncomfortable for upper management to ever want to do it again. Which, when you think about it, should be the ultimate goal of everyone in a mandatory training exercise intended mostly to waste time.

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Yeah, that's true. by gzt (2.00 / 0) #10 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 12:39:13 PM EST

But, think of it like this: this is probably the most value-creating thing I do all day. Isn't that pathetic?

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: Yes. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #11 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 12:42:30 PM EST

But have no fear. I have zero value-creating for the week thus far.

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Come on, give me some money by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #8 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 12:23:44 PM EST

Can't you see I'm literally starving to death here?

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CAUGHT IN YOUR OWN WEB OF DECEIT by gzt (4.00 / 2) #9 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 12:37:55 PM EST

We both know that's purely voluntary. You'll just spend it on cigarettes and tactical clothing. I CAN DO THAT MYSELF.

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: Touché. by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #13 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 01:48:32 PM EST

But I'm metaphorically starving to death from lack of cigarettes and tactical gear. Help a guy!

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I work in a similar environment by theboz (2.00 / 0) #12 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 12:56:51 PM EST

In my department, I am the second youngest, with the youngest person at 28. There is another guy a few months older than me, and beyond that the next youngest couple of people are about 35 and up. It's pretty bad when most of the "young" people in your company are in their 40's. It didn't used to be like this, but all the people under 30 with a few of us that are exceptions quit for other jobs.
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i'm with you on Dr Horrible by LilFlightTest (2.00 / 0) #14 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 08:26:40 PM EST

i got to see it before it went to pay only, but i'll be damned if i'm using iTunes. i'll wait til DVD.
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sha. it's not the point, it's the principle by gzt (2.00 / 0) #15 Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 09:43:44 AM EST

...of the thing.

I've been put off of purchasing anything through iTunes because of their horrible way of doing things. I got a cheap iPod, then saw I pretty much had to install iTunes to get it started up (there are other things to manage it later). So iTunes scanned my music collection and failed to notice the album covers for all but two of my albums, but I saw it had the functionality to grab them through the store for free, so I thought, well, might as well. It told me I needed an account. I thought, well, fine. It told me I needed to provide a credit card number to have an account. Well, hell no, you'll get my credit card number if and only if I purchase something. And I will never ever purchase anything from you because you blow. So I use different software and will never ever purchase through iTunes.

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: i didn't get an iPod by LilFlightTest (2.00 / 0) #16 Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 05:44:38 PM EST

because of how much i despise iTunes. if it didn't suck i'd have had no problem there...but when you have to have the program to use the store...nope, sorry.
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