Just when I thought I could avoid at least for one whole year sexual harassment courses and whatnot, they give us this online fruit cake "course" with multiple choice questions! For me it was just insulting to my intelligence. First, the whole thing was in Japan and parts were done such that I couldn't copy and paste it into a translation tool! So I had to randomly guess at the answers to the questions since I could barely read them!
But the cartoon figures/characters presented in this thing were ridiculous. It reminded me of those "**** for Dummies" books, except that the so-called "lessons" were written BY dummies!
My boss and coworker encouraged me simply to hit back and re-answer the questions. Good thing this was no GRE, GMAT or MCAT test!
To be fair, I tried my hardest to read the damn thing. But the "test" took so long and was an utter waste of time. It sucks that lawyers get involved in these things because these things add no productivity. And even if people finish them, nothing changes for the better. People still get pressured to do overtime work, sexual harassment will continue, people will refrain from calling hotlines, and the same shit will go on here. The only difference with this is that you need to take it so the company can have their little sign off to tell the government that they've legally obliged.
I think the only rule in a company should be this: don't do something stupid. That's it. No other rules are necessary. Make people sign off on that. Don't need no verbose, time wasting test for something like that. Doesn't insult anyone's intelligence and people can get back to work ASAP.
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