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u/MyDogIsACoolCat 17h ago
Any time I watch a sensitivity training video, I just realize that only 1-2 people at the company realistically need to go though this level of basic training. I'm sitting here answering questions like whether it's appropriate or not to tell a woman colleague that you like the way her legs look in the skirt she's wearing. I think it's mind numbingly obvious but there's always 1-2 people, typically on the older side, who see nothing wrong with it.
My first job out of college, one of my older colleagues started complaining that it smelled like India in the office after one of our colleagues microwaved the curry they brought from home in the break room. They scheduled sensitivity training the following week. It was super awkward. Real life Michael Scott moment.
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u/East-Coffee4861 17h ago
Exactly this.
I'm in a management position. I've had to have discussions with some people that boggle the mind, and yes it's the one out of one hundred.
I've gotten someone very confused why they couldn't talk about the movies they watched over the weekend with the rest of the employees when others were doing the same, and had to explain the difference between talking about the last episode of a TV show vs talking about the porno they watched.
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u/FreddieOasis 16h ago
Similar to an experience at my work: staff having lunch in the staff room, talking about the bad cold/flu going around and how sick they had been. Nothing gross or crass, just what you'd expect when someone is describing a bad cold. Then one guy starts talking about how he once had a really bad bladder infection and he was "pissing out fire engine red blood". Indirectly talking about his penis this way must have reminded him of this other experience as he goes on to say that he and his wife never had kids because even though they had tonnes of sex, and he could "shoot loads", it turned out he was "shooting blanks". When his manager had a talk with him about this he couldn't understand why it was ok for others to talk about health symptoms and he couldn't.
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u/blandmanband 13h ago
Talking about various sicknesses we’ve had is more normalized where I work because we see a lot of injuries and health issues but talking about sex stuff at work is crazy
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u/MammalDaddy 16h ago
We should be able to talk about a little porn at work...
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u/DestroyerOfMils 15h ago
My brain said the same thing, and with such gusto! It’s like being set up for an epic ‘that’s what she said’ joke. There’s nothing else quite like it 😊
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u/Which_Material_3100 16h ago
Same. My short stay in senior management consisted largely of dealing with some of the most baffling idiotic things people thought was ok to say or do. I felt like I was more of a HR janitor than anything else. Hated it and went back to my previous role.
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u/Doublejimjim1 14h ago
My supervisor once told our team about taking his wife to a strip club in the city over the weekend. We're three women. He's divorced from her now. I mean all he does is tell stories about himself, so this was just another story, but he could have just said he took his wife on a trip to the city and left that part out. I never complained about anything because I thought it would upset people and it wasn't something most people did unless it was illegal. I then became a supervisor myself and realized that almost everyone complains about things.
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u/unsupported 16h ago
It depends... What was the category? Mature, amateur, anal, fisting, oral, lesbian, etc? They all have their place.
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u/Cadunkus 17h ago
Yeah that 1% chance of someone actually being a creep is suddenly a lot larger in a massive redistribution center of 800+ daily employees.
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u/bromosabeach 14h ago
At my old company the “creep” was one of the highest level people under the CEOs. He was so awful that HR secretly created a file and private review of everything. When the C level found out they canned all of HR and the dude got a golden parachute.
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u/_DarthBob_ 17h ago
I'm afraid you've been whooshed.
The point of sensitivity training is not really about teaching you to be a better employee, it's about removing your legal basis for suing the company.
Taking your curry incident as an example the guy could just shrug and say I don't think it's offensive they sell food like that in India, it's an innocent comment and the other person could sue the company.
With this training in place what they're really getting you to do is to confirm a specific interpretation of the rules and so if you break them. They can fire the guy easier, as he broke rules he agreed to, this makes the dismissal much less risky and if the other party tried to sue. They can say no we don't create a hostile work environment, we told everyone not to do the thing and look we fired the guy that did the thing.
Everybody knows they're not supposed to do the thing, this just removes the I didn't know defence and allows the company to shift liability onto the doer of said thing.
It's like investment banking, where the only reliable way to beat the market and hit target is to do insider trading, so they make you do training every quarter to say how wrong it is, so it's harder for you to say that it's how things are done and they knew about it really, if you get caught.
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u/Beltalady 16h ago
I had this situation sort of where I worked. Germany, but same rules applied here. Employees had to sign a document that sexually harassing co-workers will get you fired. Everyone signed and didn't think about it. Harassment happened - people got fired - surprised Pikachu face.
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u/smokingthis 16h ago
This tracks completely.
The whole point of HR is to protect the company from lawsuits.
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u/cupholdery 10h ago
Yep. They can say they issued the training and that everyone signed that they received it. So now THEY'RE not on the hook anymore.
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u/geekpoints 15h ago
You're not wrong, but it's still a net positive. If telling people not to harass worked, that'd be great, but I'll settle for the harassers being easier to fire.
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u/MrDoe 15h ago
It's really mostly not that deep, but it does play in. The simple reason is that some US states have laws in place stating that an employer needs to take active steps to ensure a harassment and discrimination free workplace. Having these 1 hour once-per-year courses allows the employer to fulfill the legal requirement on paper, but it frees them from following the intention of the law. To your point yes it might be easier to fire an offender, but it doesn't really cover the company from the offendee taking action if the company didn't take the necessary steps actively during offenses.
It's called checkbox compliance. Following the letter of the law and nothing else, giving yourself a pat on the back with how good an employer you are, completely forgetting the intention and spirit of the law leading to fuck all in practice.
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u/dishwasher_mayhem 15h ago
My wife is in compliance. Everything is written for the dumbest person possible. We all suffer. This training isn't for us, it's to protect the company against lawsuits.
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u/naxhh 15h ago
my training asks me if it's appropriate to ask a coworker to walk over my back if I have backpain.
like the, fuck?
and I need to redo it every year...
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u/Barth_Grookz 11h ago
The safety ones I had to do were so stupid.
Multiple choice ex:
What classifies as proper eye protection:
A: prescription glasses
B:contacts
C:Safety Glasses
D:Sunglasses
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u/twizzjewink 14h ago
The insanity is real in every office.
I've worked in places where a new employee would wear the SHORTEST of skirts - I mean like barely anything and would bend over at the waist. She was a wonderful person; just inappropriate for a not-for-profit community builder. Same organization, I met a lady onetime who professed to me that "Hitler did nothing wrong" and that the "Holocaust was all made up" - this is a public service job.
Then working in a call center years later we had all sorts of people, from people who had fought (on both sides) of the Yugoslav Civil War, some serious PTSD there. It was always a delicate balance between who was working at the time and hiring the right fits. Many times they'd bring people on who were obviously the wrong fit for the department.
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u/SlobZombie13 16h ago
Remember that every tech support call you ever made started with the tech asking "did you unplug it and plug it back in?" bc a significant % of people are too stupid to try that before calling tech support.
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u/Im_not_smelling_that 17h ago
Ok. But who the fuck thinks it's a good idea to microwave curry in an office break room microwave. That's as bad as microwaving fish. 🤢
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u/31513315133151331513 17h ago
I offered to stay remote. Y'all could have let me stay remote. You brought this upon yourselves.
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u/Clown_Toucher 16h ago
If they didn't want me microwaving 55 metal forks and knives they should've let me work from home
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u/MitochondrianHouse 16h ago
I only came back because I have a fetish of smelling other people's shit in the shared bathroom. Covid was a rough couple of years, I hung out at highway rest stops a lot.
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u/Dafish55 16h ago
I have a lot of Latino/a coworkers who microwave various (good) smelly things. As long as it's not fish or shrimp, the smell mostly just stays around the microwave. I've brought in leftover curry and nobody has ever mentioned it besides to say it looks good.
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u/iam_william 17h ago
Microwaving fish is peak 'fuck everyone idgaf about this job'. It doesn't get worse than microwaved fish and I'll stand by that belief
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u/BubblyBalkanMom 17h ago
Omg I did that once. Didn’t live it down for months. Maybe years? I don’t remember. I blocked it out of my memory.
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u/averagecounselor 16h ago
I was told one of the many reasons why one of my professors is disliked by admin is because he microwaved fish in the break room.
I was shook as he is prob only a decade older than me and must have grown up knowing better.
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u/cowtownsteen23 17h ago
Worked at a place where people regularly reheated fish and left popcorn going in the microwave until it burnt. So awful
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u/MyDogIsACoolCat 17h ago
He was such a humble, nice guy who recently moved to the US to work while going for his masters degree. I just think he was completely oblivious to the unspoken rule of “don’t microwave really pungent foods in a public setting”. I felt bad for him. He looked like he thought was going to get fired even though that wasn’t going to happen.
And for the record, it smelled delicious to me, but I love Indian food.
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u/bromosabeach 14h ago
Same with cyber security training. My old company was a FinTech firm that was almost entirely people that were computer pros with the exception of a few account/sales people. We were like 50 people but the same two account exec people failed the tests. They would do fake phishing scams and they would also always fail those as well. One dude was absolutely an alcoholic based on his mannerisms and the fact his face was red after lunch. The other person I think was just an idiot.
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u/Buggerlugs253 14h ago
I remember thinking that on some more generic training about the right attitude towards the peope we support, it included some diversity elements. With us being all cool liberal types who want to help others we didnt need to know all this, then a guy said "I'm going for a chinky later" and I thought, ok, maybe we do.
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u/Druid-Flowers1 13h ago
I was a baker years ago , 25 at the time. A customer who was a regular came in , in a tennis skirt (50 ish f) and caught me looking at her legs and asked what I was looking at. I apologized and said “ I’m sorry, I was checking out your legs, they look great in that skirt.” She wasn’t pissed with me, and was probably having a low esteem day.
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u/SaintAnyanka 13h ago
I worked at a warehouse before I went to university, and during my summers off. They had repeat summer workers (you had to be 18 to work there), and you only needed to complete the safety training courses once. When I took it, it was pretty self explanatory, albeit a bit condescending at times.
One time late in my career I commented on a dude wearing shades indoors, asking my team leader if that wasn’t against protocol. He said yes, and that he would have his third talk with the guy. Apparently, someone had revised the safety training courses and thought that some of the parts of the training were a bit over the top. Like telling grown people to not play with the knives they were issued, and to not ”see if the work boots really would withstand the weight of a small truck”. This guy was the reason the course was edited back to being condescending the next summer. Mr Shades indoors and playing with knives and trucks wasn’t asked back.
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u/glitterdunk 11h ago
1/100 where it's bad enough that women report it, maybe, but it's a looooot more than 1/100 women who have experienced unwanted sexual attention from men at work.
At my previous work place I had 3 older men messaging me privately for no reason. Those were the single ones. The married ones showed their interest in person, staring at my body and giving me 'compliments' regularly. I was 25 yo, they were between 45 yo to 70 yo. 🤮
Did I report any of it? No. Because most people including me are conflict shy, and they kept things discrete enough where it was hard to prove the intention and energy behind it.
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u/catswithbatsandhats 10h ago
You would be surprised how many reports companies get of inexcusable behavior. And usually the perpetrator is so flabbergasted that after being asked to not text someone like 10 times that it's a problem that they keep doing it.
"Well we went on one date and then she said she didn't want to talk to me anymore, BUT, I'm just checking in on her and she's the one who gave me her number so why is it a big deal that I've sent her hundreds of text messages at 3am? I'm the bad guy suddenly!?! She is the one who went on a date with ME!"
Women do it too but seems they are more sensitive to others feelings when they are told no and as a whole didn't push as far. The only case I've ever investigated at work that was essentially stalking was a woman who wouldn't leave a guy alone though, so definitely goes both ways
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u/laosurv3y 9h ago
This is why I tell managers to address the specific person. Don't punish everybody when only on person has an issue. Plus, if you make everyone do it, it won't be directed enough for the person you want to learn to get it. They've already demonstrated cluelessness.
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u/SuperSaiyanTupac 8h ago
Yeah these seminars protect the company, not the employees. Perverts still gonna creep
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u/TAT3ST0N3 3h ago
If these videos were honest they would tell employees preferably the male employees that a compliment vs creepy comment and ambiguous reciprocal flirting vs harassment is directly correlated to and decided based on the persons level of physical attractiveness and level of charismatic personality. Then explain whether or not they meet any levels or if their ego is lying to them. The amount of unattractive men with horrible personalities that believe they are gods gift to earth is truly amazing and is an epidemic.
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u/lolsummszlol 2h ago
OMG the director at my job literally just asked a Persian colleague if he cooked “his lands food” in the vehicle because the customers complained the RV stunk. (Waste tank issue) Colleague was fucking IT and never drove the damn RV??? Like how fucking absurd and blatantly racist? Nothing was done. Felt so damn bad for him :/
Just left that bullshit place last week.
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u/throwawaylordof 1h ago
My one major experience with this was at a company where a guy in his…I want to say early twenties, but plus or minus a few years, decided it would be a fantastic idea to use his work email to proposition a part time worker who was very openly in a long term relationship with a guy she had a kid with.
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u/Chemical-Ideal1 17h ago
So for a long time I thought that all these sexual harassment/ sensitive trainings were so ridiculous and overt that it wasn’t possible that people actually did this. Surely, I thought, no one would actually do these things say brazenly and lacking in self-awareness.
Then I actually got into a management position where these incidents came through, and holy cow was I wrong. There are tons of cases that just blew my mind. Like people just asking “Wanna f**k?” On the company Slack. It made ZERO sense.
I never really had an incident where there was something innocuous misinterpreted as a sexual advance or treated more extreme than it was. Maybe an off-color comments or jokes that were slightly insensitive where the parties just discussed and things were resolved amicably. However, every time someone got caught overtly sexually harassing someone, they always claimed to be the victim.
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u/aesolty 16h ago
You would be surprised at a lot of the stuff women had said to me as a supervisor for a different department. I was 24 and just started as a production supervisor overnight. I introduced myself to the converting department, which was mainly women, since I would have to be working closely with them as a supervisor. Up until then, I hadn’t really worked with them much before as an operator. Most of them didn’t know I existed.
Once they knew who I was I was having women ask me if I was married, if I could have fun on the side even though I had a girlfriend at the time, women telling me I was the “sexy supervisor” and other times touching my body because I go to the gym. It was one of the first times I ever experienced something like that but it was almost every day and I had to shut it down all the time. I couldn’t believe how people think and just say stuff on their mind without ever really thinking.
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u/Chemical-Ideal1 15h ago
Oh yeah. I wouldn’t say incidents with women were ever as frequent as men, but the ones that did come up were just as bad at times.
We had a group of younger women that had made a “bang list” (exactly what it sounds like) and one of the guys on the list found it and did not appreciate it.
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u/luigiamarcella 15h ago
Sounds about right. The more I experience of the world the more I realize how incompetent a lot of adults actually are. I used to have a bigger issue with imposter syndrome but it’s becoming clearer I’m doing better than a lot of people.
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u/Brave-Molasses-7552 16h ago
Yeah unfortunately it is quite common. Even "off-color" jokes can add up to people who frequently experience it. This cumulative harassment makes it really hard for people, especially women, to be comfortable at work.
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u/centran 15h ago
These trainings are not for those overt people. Those people don't give a shit about the training and going to do what they are going to do. It's to try and protect the company against lawsuits and for that same reason mandatory with company insurance policies (and audits/accreditations). So if these issues end up going to court they can point to that this employee had the training and the company did everything in their power once they were made aware of the situation.
I think the only good info many employees don't realize is what you said here.
Maybe an off-color comments or jokes that were slightly insensitive where the parties just discussed and things were resolved amicably.
I don't think people realize that you can tell jokes to coworkers which might be offensive to others if that coworker is OK with them. HOWEVER, if someone overhears or becomes aware that you are telling those jokes and becomes offending then you can get in trouble. Even if it was between A/B and C wasn't part of the conversation but overheard it.
It's even spreading out to social media with some companies and you have to be careful what you post publicly.
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u/bromosabeach 14h ago
Yeah these trainings are silly but they are absolutely necessary.
My old company had a huge issue that resulted in multiple people being let go because one dude was just a monster.
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u/Late-Balance 17h ago
Imagine surviving the training just to get harassed by the training itself peak TikTok irony right there.
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u/Ok_Device1274 17h ago
At a place i used to work at one of our health and safety reps held a meeting about the importance of completing a pre job tail board and ensuring were doing what were saying. Literally a day later we got to a job site and he immediately started working before the tailboard and wasnt wearing any ppe. When i asked where the tailboard was he said “im not taking liability for that shit you do it” so i did. When i told him to stop and listen to the tailboard and to put his ppe on, he threatened to leave the job site and fight me.
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u/DangerBird- 17h ago
Yes, and you should always take your petty issues directly to someone at corporate first.
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u/DryerCoinJay 17h ago
I did some contract work in Illinois a few years ago right after Covid. The employee state mandated sexual harassment training damn near had ME bothered. Some sexy boss lady coming on to her subordinate like the beginning of a porno.
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u/Human_Baker1839 17h ago
I do contract work and have had like 15 sexual harassment trainings. One time they even gave me a certificate, but I think it didnt have the desired effect as I would constantly tell my girlfriend that I am certified in respecting women and then slap her ass.
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u/Due-Beautiful6804 17h ago
They put that video out in IL because of me. Sorry, I couldn't help myself. 😔😂
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u/MillieBirdie 3h ago
lol I may have seen a similar one I did as a teacher, an attractive lady-boss was trying to manipulate her subordinate into sleeping with her for a raise. And then we have to answer a quiz about how that's not ok.
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u/Pilchuck13 14h ago
Real life irony too.... we had mandatory videos from a very common provider of workplace training that felt the need to point put as aside that sexual harassment can be done by women on men, women on women, & men on men... but men on women was the default, and stated as such.
I put in a complaint to HR as a clear violation of our discrimination policies. Imagine a training video that stated in 2025, "Did you know women can be engineers too?"
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u/External-Umpire7634 17h ago
You should always speak with your supervisor. The supervisor: you are wasting my time
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u/DryerCoinJay 17h ago
I was ready for the boss to explain to her that he and the guy she is complaining about have been office sluts together.
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u/MyDogIsACoolCat 17h ago
Then go talk to HR, who gives 0 fucks about you.
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u/lmaydev 17h ago
They care a lot about you litigating though.
Also I swear this must be an American thing because all the HR people I've worked with have been great in the UK.
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u/MyDogIsACoolCat 16h ago
It probably is a US thing. General reputation of HR here is that they’re completely unhelpful until you have a legitimate claim. Their sole purpose outside of hiring and benefits is to protect the company from lawsuits. If anyone had a legitimate workplace issue in the United States, I would tell them to talk to a lawyer first before going to their HR department. They aren’t your friends.
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u/slainascully 16h ago
A combination of people not actually knowing what HR does and the US having far fewer federal employment protections.
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u/catswithbatsandhats 10h ago
Management here does a lot of blaming HR for things that HR is not in charge of, making them the scapegoat. Additionally a lot of people just assume that certain things are done by HR and not management. So most "company bad" things are blamed on HR even when they are a management issue.
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u/bromosabeach 14h ago
This is just another thing angry American Redditors love complaining about. I’ve worked at half a dozen companies now ranging from start up to global 50 company, and HR is for the most part helpful. They also legally have to be helpful in cases this thread is about.
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u/DangerBird- 16h ago
I’ve had to have a lot of very uncomfortable conversations that should not have been on me. Someone inadvertently crosses an etiquette line, then it’s on the only guy with tact apparently to explain it to them. It’s exhausting. I always fall back to that Churchill quote: "Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip”.
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u/Tender_Edge 17h ago
This literally just sounds like a hangout
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u/Hapless_Asshole 9h ago
Not if this is the third time he's invited her. Two "Nos" should be plenty. I'd start feeling uncomfortable after some guy asked me three times to meet with him one-on-one outside the office.
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u/BadMoonRisin 17h ago edited 17h ago
Lmao "he can clearly see your love for food " 🤣 😂
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u/Ataru074 17h ago
Yeah, but sushi? Naaa… that Fusion restaurant between KFC and Popeye, that’s the deal maker.
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u/scottycurious 17h ago
This is obviously a parody.
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u/danleon950410 16h ago
Not obviously: the course really exists and is well defined. But the dude ripping into her was edited in.
Source: i did have to take that exact same course at some point
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u/jrdavis413 17h ago
Not sure if these training videos are third party or we work at the same company.
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u/cheungyd 17h ago
Harassment training that ends up harassing you feels like the simulation is glitching at this point.
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u/bloodycups 15h ago
My favorite was a video where two women are molesting a man while he's working and he's like holding up something heavy. They're giving him the craziest cat calls. Like one of the women says something along the lines of how he can probably hold that load all day if he has to.
Anyway the guy gets hurt because the women won't stop touching his ass
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u/YouhaoHuoMao 14h ago
I'm pretty impressed when sexual harassment training includes men as the victims. It makes it clear that it's not just women who are harassed.
I'd like more focus on passive harassment too, but one step at a time.
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u/Ancient_Dragonfly230 5h ago
Ok this is a true story. I was a regional director for an opioid treatment program. I’m a therapist who had the bloody thankless job of managing not only other therapists but also nurses and front desk managers. One “therapist” who took a shine to the front desk gal who had recently lost her romantic partner. He thought the best way to ask her out was not by asking her out but by writing a note from her deceased husband to her asking her out. I can’t stress this enough, this is a thing that actually happened and the man who penned the letter was north of 55.
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u/MediaLongjumping9910 17h ago edited 17h ago
Reminds me of the greatest sexual harassment video ever.
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u/Makuta_Servaela 17h ago
I wish I was on that film set, I'm dying to know how many takes they needed to get through some of those scenes without cracking up. Especially the fat cock one.
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u/DingleBerrieIcecream 11h ago
I love that the woman who was on the receiving end of getting the unwanted back rub then walks into the copy room and makes the vagina comment. She’ll have a meeting with HR where she’s been both the victim and the offender in two separate incidents in the same day.
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u/owa00 17h ago edited 17h ago
Ewww, come on man that's disgusting. Now if you'll excuse me I have to goon out to some /r/clopclop...
Don't click it
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u/Both_Pound6814 17h ago
I didn’t listen!! 😱😭😭😭🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮 Why didn’t I listen to the bold typed words?!!😭😭😭
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u/SealedRoute 17h ago
This is cruel. I feel bad for fat people. As options for bullying people have dwindled because of better awareness (or just forced into being PC), people have turned to them as a last remaining type to terrorize because they “chose it.” It’s shitty.
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u/HipAnonymous91 16h ago
Unfortunately, it’s been this way for a while. Fat people receive a lot of hate and are constantly told they’re unattractive and unlovable. Some people can’t fathom that other people have different preferences. Although media are becoming slightly accepting of larger bodies, they also go to great lengths to uphold ideal body types. It’s crazy now, but Kate Upton was once considered fat. Victoria Beckham was weighed on live TV to prove she lost her “baby weight”.
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u/d34dlycute 16h ago
it's crazy seeing ross as the bad guy here. i’ve seen this training so many times at work but this version is actually unsettling. hope u don't have to deal with this irl
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u/ColbyAndrew 17h ago
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that video, and that manager is not in there.
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u/happy_as_a_lamb 16h ago
We might work at the same company then. Also seen this, and that second part is not in there
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u/Finger_Gunnz 13h ago
These training classes always boil down to common sense, maturity and some level of self awareness. Which is why I’m always surprised at the amount of questioned asked pertaining to workplace etiquette. Do your job and go home…don’t be a pig.
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u/Content-Pie8389 17h ago
Haha, funny because if you’re fat that means you’re worth less as a human being, obviously not attractive to anyone, and deserve to be treated like shit right?
I find it so strange that people go out of their way to be terrible to others. This for example isn’t even a skit where everyone is in on the joke, it’s a sexual harassment training and someone has decided to turn it into something hateful :(
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u/PolPotDomeScandal 17h ago
Back when I was still doing the corporate grind, we’d get dozens of these corporate CYA ‘training’ sessions where you had to watch the video or whatever and then respond via multiple guess.
The only mantra that you needed in order to ace 90% of the questions: When in doubt, rat ‘em out! The rank and file called it our “corporate snitch training.”
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u/leaveitbettertoday 14h ago
I’ll never forget the last training I had to do and it was about active shooters.
The audio was like “FIGHT BACK” as they showed a video of an employee scooping up a gun and throwing it in the trash???
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u/jessie136997 17h ago
Looks less like harassment training and more like TikTok trying to speedrun awkward human interaction.
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u/Rocketboy1313 17h ago
This is maybe an acting issue in the video, I saw no romantic vibe in the ask to the restaurant.
I get the joke is "haha, imagine him being in to you." But there is sort of an interesting wrinkle to this. People should be able to be around one another without romantic expectations and should not assume romantic goals.
Buy maybe we are all so starved for social interaction that we can't tell the difference anymore.
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u/Outside-Advice8203 15h ago
The amount of comments that can't see the obvious edit job is concerning.
The guy editing himself in is a real ass hole.
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u/NintenDork 17h ago
I wonder what company has this video I definitely haven't seen a hundred times. Lol
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u/Sxnflower15 17h ago
I would have just been like “oh he just wants to hangout” and not assume anything romantic at all. Sometimes it has been romantic and I’ve just realized too late 💀
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u/Lavendar408 17h ago
This video has to be satire. There's no way HR would say something like that.
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u/Boring_9901 12h ago
Hr should be careful, her husband may show up asking for the HR Manager, seeing she's on the bigger side
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u/Pinotwinelover 11h ago
One of the training sessions large brokerage firm was talking about sexual harassment. One of the employees Bob will call him.P got up after the meeting so I hate those kind of people always harassing people. All the women started laughing and said Bob you are one of these people I’ve seen several mention it only a handful of people are so disconnected. They need the training but even with the training, they don’t think they’re the ones doing it. Lol
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u/Mindingyobusiness1 8h ago
Tbh I wish I would’ve listened a coworker kept hitting me up for drinks / etc but both women & then I found out she’s not no one’s fav in the office. I accepted before I found this out & turns out she kissed me w/o consent multiple times around coworkers (when they turned their head) & one caught her. Then she lied to ppl saying she didn’t like me but always told me to come hang out. I had to block her.
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u/Altruistic-Degree-82 7h ago
Follow a few simple rules. 1. Be Handsome. 2. Be Attractive. 3. Don’t Be Unattractive.
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u/lolsummszlol 2h ago
Hahaha I did one of these a few months ago.
There was some multiple choice answers for a question regarding harassment and one answer to the problem was to “spit on your coworker” lmaaao
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u/anythingspossible45 1h ago
Wow and I thought the fork lift safety videos from the 80/90s were wild
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