Posted on 09/27/2005 4:59:12 PM PDT by Little Bill
Again, I am confronted by our yearly PC Celibration of Diversity.
Today, I was shuffling through my bosses "to do" list and I found my self, scheduled for diversity training. I am not blaiming him for subjecting me to the one occasion that would get me fired, great guy I was his mentor, he is on the way to achieving all that I saw in him.
I have opinions that border on Social Darwinism, every one will achieve what they can, I hate big gov, and I accept people as they are. Damn it, I am a libertarian with out drugs and with boarders but I am a Christian.
Last year I had walking Pnumonia and rather than disrupt the class, I stood to the side and observed, out side of the room.
Jusr remember that "diversity" is:
celebrating that people are different,
while pretending not to notice any such differences.
Time for another case of walking pneumonia so you can be outside the room and gag! Yet another way minority folks are earning government money by teaching how to get along with them when they can't get along with themselves. What a funny world...
Ipod and playstation.
Or walkman and crossword puzzle.
Declare yourself to be a member of a minority! After all, you live in Massachusetts, but you're not a lib Dem. How much more "minority" can you get!?!?
Go one of two ways....smile and give hugs and embrace your homosexual work associates, or, call 'em pillow biters and walk out the room!
First of all you need to show a true team spirit, with a lot of sharing and giving. Since you already mentioned that you went to work while suffering from pneumonia, I strongly suggest that the next time you come down with a flu or any other contagious disease you are to positively insist on reporting for duty, and indeed come there in the true spirit of the aforesaid sharing and giving. The idea is that everyone would cross a "typhoid Mary" out of attendance at any future training or any other group chore.
I had to attend once.
Fortunately, I had some very cool people with me. All our answers were very un-PC. We got a stern talking to.
Walk softly and carry a big stick flask.
How many rooms you rent?
It all depends on whether they can fail you. If they can't, well...
But if your job depends on it I'd get that pneumonia again.
"Nothing you say or do is going to change these "true believers" minds. They are some of the most petty vindictive people on earth when crossed."
I tend to view such people the same as zampolits, political officers. Generally clueless and useless as far as real work goes, but extremely dangerous. In the past I would just play along with the party line.
Now I am a business partner in a minority owned company, however we don't have time or resources for this kind of nonsense. Too busy doing real work.
Nod your head.. pretend you agree... smile at the nice communist...
Dude:
You have to go, but you don't have to drink the cool-aid, and you can not be fired for your views. What a perfect oppertunity to counter some of the bullsh*t that is flung in these sessions.
Just speak up for what you believe, and let them know that dead-ending someone or fireing someone for their view would be very "diversity unfriendly" (thereby beating them with their own stick) and extremely costly for the company.
You don't have to be insulting or hurtful, just call a spade a f**king shovel.
No, you don't.
Two years until you retire? You can put with anything for two years.
Sticking your fingers in your ears / covering your ears might be a tad too obvious. But effective.
Daydreaming would be good, as long as you don't have to participate too much.
Fake a really bad cough, "can't....hack...hack...talk....hack..."
On the other hand, how much can you get away with, without risking termination?
Be bold.
"I don't usually get involved in fads."
"What has Jesse 'Pimp Daddy' Jackson done for diversity?"
"I thought closets were built for a purpose."
Just kidding.
Good luck, and let us know how you survive.
LVM
With only two years left, you should be able to do that standing on your head!
You smile, be nice, say all the right words and before you know it, you're outta there!
It ain't that hard. If I could do it for my last five years, you can do it for two.
Just remember, all you've worked for is finally comming to fruition. One day at a time and just like that, you're at your retirement party.
Keep your head down and your mouth shut. Sit about a third of the way back on the side of the room away from the door. Thank the trainer profusely at every opportunity.
Remember, they are paying for you wasting your time in the room.
I am minority, I am a swamp yankee, we founded this State, the smarter ones moved out, Bill Weld for example.
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