This time it’s off site, with attendees (24) from multiple organizations/companies. So this morning we’re supposed to go around the room and ‘quickly’ introduce ourselves, right? All of us do except one woman, who I think gave her entire history back to kindergarten…
Part of the training is group gropes… er… ‘team’ exercises, with ‘short’ outbriefs. The instructor cautions that no one is to take anything personal about either decisions or questions during this course.
So we do the first exercise, and one from each group gets up and gives their little (4 slide) outbrief, and then questions are allowed from the floor on the justification for their decisions…
Everything was going fine, then this woman got up as the ‘speaker’ for her group. She talked, and talked, and justified, and more justification (like about 10 slides), since they made a choice NO ONE else made. She finally ran down and the questioning started. An older gent from another group asked a rather pointed question as to how they had missed some ‘key’ information; her answer didn’t
‘answer’ the question, so he asked it again.
She got ‘offended’ that he had the temerity to ask the question again, and he jumped right back at her that ‘he’ was offended that she was offended by a simple question and had wasted so much class time! The instructor tried to play peacemaker, but she wasn’t having any of it, and went off on (in order), men, the instructor, the class, conservatives, and “old farts” that should be sitting in rockers somewhere…
I just got up and took a break…
Came back about 15 minutes later, and leaned over to one of my female co-workers at another table and asked who won?
Her comment, “WE lost, and she’s trying to drag all of us (females) down with her.”
Sigh, some people just need to GET OVER themselves…
In other ‘civility’ issues, we have:
On Sunday, Ellen Barkin expressed her hope that Tropical Storm Isaac would smash up the Republican National Convention in Tampa and drown all its delegates.
She retweeted the message of one of her followers that read: “C’mon #Isaac! Wash every pro-life, anti-education, anti-woman, xenophobic, gay-bashing, racist SOB right into the ocean! #RNC ” Barkin did not express any disagreement in her retweet.
Samuel L. Jackson on Monday tweeted it was “unfair” that Tropical Storm Isaac had spared the GOP convention in Tampa and appeared to be heading for New Orleans.
Jackson said in a profanity-filled tweet that he was “not understanding God’s plan” given the fact that the storm was not disrupting the Republican gathering.
“Unfair s—,” the Oscar-nominated actor known for his colorful language said on Twitter.
“GOP spared by Isaac! NOLA prolly f—– again!”
Article HERE…
Comments??? Crickets… as usual… If anybody did, they’d be RACIST… sigh
And this one from the PCism run amok…
A Nebraska school district asked a deaf preschooler to change his sign language name because they believe the hand motion he used looked like he was shooting a gun.
The family of 3-year-old Hunter Spanjer said that their deaf son’s sign gesture violates the Grand Island Public Schools weapons policy.
“He’s deaf, and his name sign, they say, is a violation of their weapons policy,” Brian Spanjer, Hunter’s father, told Nebraska based news channel KOLN. “It’s a symbol. It’s an actual sign, a registered sign, through (Signing Exact English).”
The kid is THREE !@&( YEARS OLD! Let him ‘keep his own damn name!!!
Agirl has an excellent post up HERE on this one, with additional information from her own family!
Sigh…
Sorry, I didn’t mean to disrupt your work meeting like that, but I had a lot to say.
You’re probably needing to watch your blood pressure after that meeting, but so help me, I’d have taken a “break” for the rest of the day.
Yet the Tea Party is racist. It amazes me what the dems get away with. Let a rep say something about BHO getting a 50 cal up his ass and see what happens.
Hmmm, this makes me wonder what they would do for all the kids I knew growing up whose name was “Gunnar”, pronounced and I assume signed the same way you would say “Gunner”.
And I’ve run into the “you’re only picking on me because I’m female/minority/foreign/whatever”. I have to always retort that I don’t have to go with standard reasons to dislike them, for they provide me with all the reason I need all by themselves.
we have a talker like that at work…she uses it as a ploy to demonstrate the extent of what she has been working on so that no-one might notice her lack of ability….trouble is most of us have seen through it…the shame of it is we’re only going to get rid of her by promoting her into a position in some other unfortunate department…..
Darn, I was just getting ready to do a post about Barkin and Jackson and point out that all of the ranting loons seem to be on one side. Kind of makes you contemplate who really has the maturity needed to run this country, doesn’t it?
Pity, because Barkin was kinda hot back in the 80’s. Sad to see that she’s aged like a carton of milk.
Sigh, I have “meetings” like that. They are from the depths of hell. I got this gig based on my skills and ability to get a job done (20 years ago, but still).
Why am I forced into the “happy crap” as I call it. People that have no clue about how anything works here, and have half the time “in theater” not want to tell me how to do my stuff?!?!?
And yeah, the others can rant all they want and get a pass. Me? People get freaked out when they find out I own a, gasp, GUN!
Sigh… I swear, I am glad I found Blogger, you people are some of the only ones keeping me sane!
The lunatics running the asylum.
Years ago in another life I was a “facilitator” in a “personal growth” company. I loved women like that . . . . Usually my first question to them after opening comments went something like “so how long have you been a bitch??” Then I’d watch them explode. Let’s just say it was a 3-day, HARD CORE course where some of these folks heard the truth for the first time in their lives. From my chair it was kinda fun! 🙂
Might I suggest a bit of Tempelton Rye for the next course??
Agirl- Smartass 😛
Rev- If I could, I would have…
CP- Oh HELL no, let him go out as a failed one term president!!!
DB- Yeah, both good points!
Differ- Peter principal DOES work for women too!
Murph- Sorry, didn’t mean to steal your thunder… And I stepped on Agirl’s post too!
Keads- Heard ALL that… And same here on the bloggers!!!
WSF- Running and OWNING!!!
eia- LOL, DON’T tempt me!!! 🙂
You missed the one where Cher tweeted that Todd Akin should be raped by a man with HIV.
What Akin said was ignorant, but he didn’t suggest anyone should actually be raped.
The double standard is alive and well.
Band together and hold the yappy broad’s feet to the fire. I hope the “old fart” pressed her for a straight answer, but like you. I would have left for air. Nobody would like me anymore were I to stay.
Good Lord how I hate those “training classes”.
Better you than me, friend.
I once had to regularly brief a Brigadier General who thought that his entire mission in life was to make a Major as miserable as possible. I was briefing him one day and he went off, as usual, as predicted. I started smiling, and he asked if I thought any of this was funny. I replied, “Well, sir, I am amused.” I thought the sonofabitch was going to blow a gasket. At the emd of my tour, he signed my ARCOM, saying that I didn’t seem to be scared of General Officers.
Tim- yeah, missed that one… sigh
Suz- Nope the instructor shut it off…
MSgt- Oh THANK you… 🙁
Paw- LOL, BTDT, except ‘my’ Admiral was in the room when I briefed a more senior Admiral… I was NOT invited to brief again! 🙂
I need to take up smoking so I have a convent excuse to leave meetings like that. I had never realized that’s why you do it. 🙂