Shrug, I do use it to differentiate a type of irritated feeling which does have violent tones. The next higher level is Og Smash.
I recently had to do something like this for one of the colleges I work for, an online sexual harassment training. I was told it would take about an hour. I was rolling my eyes over it before I even started, because I knew it would be ridiculous. And, of course, I was right.
I logged in and just started hitting the next button as quickly as I could without reading anything. At the end of each section a few multiple choice questions would come up; you’d have to have an IQ of 10 to not instantly recognize which was the “correct” answer.
The only reason the entire process took me ten minutes was because at a couple of points, a video started playing that I couldn’t shut down.
I mean really, can’t they come up with something meaningful? Instead of “you would have to be a complete moron with zero common sense to fail this thing?”
Ah, sexual harassment training. I had to endure that idiocy annually from about 1981 till I retired in 2011. Are there really people out there so clueless that this is necessary?
OK, yeah, there are. But still…
The law says they have to do it. The law says it has to take X minutes. The law doesn’t say it has to be entertaining, effective, nor challenging. Everybody up and down the whole chain from producer to vendor to buyer to unwilling viewer is just mailing it in.
+1,000,000. And I don’t know if is true of all video training, but all of ours require you to take the test until you pass. What possible incentive do I have to watch the entire video? Just keep taking the test until you’ve identified and fixed the ones you get wrong. Why, just the other day, it took me around ten minutes to get through an 80 minute training - I scored an 80 on the test and got congratulated for passing. I missed two. In shame, I must now go and commit suicide…:rolleyes:
The latest style has all the questions embedded in the training so it’s essentially impossible to fast forward or shortcut the process. *tres *Evil.
Classic example of “One guy shits his pants; everybody wears a diaper.”
Next time somebody you work with makes a sexist remark, thank him for his role in your required training.
NUKE IT FROM ORBIT!!!:mad::mad::mad:
If I nuke it from orbit, my internet connection goes down :mad: Better leave it outside the rabbit’s cave…
I think it’s for HR and corporate to be able to say we provide the training, so when something does happen, 1) The employee can’t claim they didn’t know and 2) Corporate can spin the PR disaster. Most of these things are common sense, although I did find the one about corporate gifting to be interesting (never ever ever give a gift to a government employee, no matter how small, without clearing it through legal.)
Why is your analogy about guys?!?!? Women are equally as likely to soil themselves! I’ll see you at the re-education camp sensitivity training. 
My stupid little stabby thing is pretty much any complaint about driving and traffic. So half of this thread essentially.
Turn signal offenders? People cutting others off? Drivers that move slowly in the right lane? Rubber-necking type congestion? For some reason I can’t muster any emotional energy about any of these things. I’m either oblivious to these offenses when they are occur and I promptly forget about them. So hearing about them bores me to tears in a way no other “stupid little stabby thing” does. When the conversation in the office shifts to this topic, I feel the urge to punch myself.
Since it seems like I’m an anomaly in this indifference, it makes me wonder if I’m actually the one blissfully ignorant idiot on the road perpetrating all these crimes against humanity. I really don’t think so, but if so, then I can’t even make myself care about it. It’s like, oh well, I’m evil, giving people road rage heart attacks on a daily basis. Next?
I’m pretty sure that’s the generic gender-free “guy”. 
Sometimes you can’t win. The other day at work I greeted a group of 2 men and 2 women. All are middle aged. I said “Good morning boys & girls! I’m LSLGuy. Nice to meet you all.”
And promptly caught an earful from one of the women about disrespecting her by calling her a girl. She didn’t quite say I was a sexist pig, but it was close.
Despite my carefully using exactly equal terms for the males & females.
So I guess we found out what makes her stabby and also something that peeves me too.
Self proclaimed “grammar cops” who don’t actually know what grammar is. I have a friend who is constantly complaining on Facebook when people use the wrong word (along the lines of “nauseous/nauseating”) and accusing them of “bad grammar”. If you are going to criticize people for using the wrong word, I’m going to quietly roll my eyes when you call it “grammar”.
For the record, I have no problem with people using “grammar” to refer to things that are not, strictly speaking according to linguistic definition, grammar. I only have a problem if you are otherwise going to apply a strict, prescriptivist and pedantic standard to other people’s usage.
I’m something like 20/800 without correction, and I still correct to 20/15.
Please don’t stab me.
**ACHTUNG! ACHTUNG! ** Referring to women as “females” reduces them to subhumans and makes it clear you think they’re only good for sex. For males, it’s ok.
I actually thought about whether I’d get a rise from somebody by using those words there.
Oh they’ve taken it further than that. Some of these “productivity” courses require you actual pay attention. They’re full of acronym generated nonsense. The first person in my office to take the test would hit print when the answers popped up and pass them out. Yep, they disabled the print function. And then they changed the questions so they’re different with each attempt.
Rest assured if the person who designs these black holes of time ever walk in front of my car I will be adjusting the clock on my radio.
On the other hand, I’d rather do the idiotic on-line training than sit thru a tedious lecture on the same topic.
Many years ago, we were forced to go to the base theater (I was working at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville) for what they were calling “diversity training.” It was what we all should have learned in kindergarten - treat each other with respect and don’t be a jerk. But rather than just say that then let us get back to work, they had skits which would have been embarrassing at the junior high school level, let alone for a room full of engineers, technicians, and artisans.
Then the guy in charge of the event, who just happened to be a preacher in his other job, took the podium and started in with a stereotypical Southern Baptist preacher routine, right down to “Can I get an Amen?” He tried to get everyone to recite, in unison: “I deserve to be treated with respect.” I thought it was hilarious when the guy next to me chose to say “I deserve to be treated like an adult!”
Immediately afterwards, the union reps were flooded with complaints. They never wasted our time like that again. I’m still amazed that anyone thought it was a good idea in the first place.
I don’t know about sexual harassment seminars for adults, but those sort of things are counter-productive when used with kids. Ever see the *South Park *episode where they took a similar approach with a “no smoking” convocation? and the boys immediately went and started smoking so they wouldn’t be like the dorks in the convocation? I think it works like that in real life sometimes.
In fact, I once interpreted a “Say ‘No’ to Drugs” thing for kindergartners and first graders that was like that, and some of the teachers were skeptical. If that approach is already condescending when you are dealing with 6-year-olds…