Training with David Brent
Have you met David Brent? I met him at possibly the worst training I have ever attended. Of course his name wasn’t David Brent, but it may as well have been. It was unbelievable.
“How so?” you ask.
How about giving the lecture on sexual harassment and its painful effects (”You will be terminated immediately for this behavior”) while giving 95% of the prizes to the buxom blonde whenever she opened her mouth? It was so obvious and embarrassing that she started to share her prizes with the class.
Let’s be frank - he did it BOTH days. Lots of people gave answers, shared experiences, participated, yet she left loaded down with almost every prize. (No, I am not jealous, just disgusted.)
How about the time he said “Don’t put down the Lifetime Channel in front of a customer; they might like the channel and find it offensive”? In the next breath, he proceeded to tell us about his couch riding pregnant wife and her obsession with the “stupid and trite” programming on the Lifetime Channel.
Then there’s “readers are leaders”.
Unbelievable. Have you ever met David Brent?
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I specialise in discrimination law. Watching “the Office” was uncomfortable but distressingly accurate viewing.
If you don’t watch television how do you know who he is?
Good question. We Netflix shows that our friends recommend. So lately we’ve seen a lot of BBC shows - Prime Suspect and the like. Sometimes the shows are awful - Weeds is such a sad, sad show - and other times they are OK.
I am not against the medium - just the choice. I want to choose what advertising and propoganda goes into my head. I suppose it’s a control thing.
But I’m like that with food to….