Equality and Diversity training

**pmeswani** · 12 February 2009, 10:52

Originally posted by swamp View Post

I've been told I have to do a two hour Equality and Diversity online training course.

Has anyone else had to do similar tulipe?

Not since contracting. But if the client is paying for it, milk it. I've access to a client's account on Books 24x7 site. Didn't make full use of it. Wish I had.

**voodooflux** · 12 February 2009, 10:56

Originally posted by swamp View Post

I've been told I have to do a two hour Equality and Diversity online training course.

Has anyone else had to do similar tulipe?

Yes, we have similar exercises at ClientCo. A recent one was "How to handle a bribe" but there was no option for accepting payment in unmarked, non-sequential bills delivered in a brown paper bag

**sasguru** · 12 February 2009, 11:04

Happens to the "best" of us:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7885081.stm

**BrowneIssue** · 12 February 2009, 11:09

Originally posted by swamp View Post

I've been told I have to do a two hour Equality and Diversity online training course.

Are they paying you to attend? If so, what's the problem?

Yes, 'cos I work on government sites, I've done load of equality, health & safety, site awareness and other stuff. Some required attendance, some was online. Most of it I have done half a dozen times now.

And having MyCo charging at about £1 per minute, I don't have any problem with that at all thankyouverymuch.

Miscellaneous principle: never turn down free training.

**Alf W** · 12 February 2009, 11:12

Yes and the course was utter bollocks. Full of trick questions. "Aha, that is not a blind man it is just a man in dark glasses, walking his labrador and holding his visually impaired friend's white stick you disablist you".

Where the wife works a load of them had to go on a 'working with your Indian colleagues' course which I thought was a little bit patronising. Presumably there is a reciprocal course.

**OwlHoot** · 12 February 2009, 11:17

Originally posted by swamp View Post

I've been told I have to do a two hour Equality and Diversity online training course.

Has anyone else had to do similar tulipe?

Is that the same one Prince Harry was ordered to do?

**wurzel** · 12 February 2009, 11:25

[QUOTE=Alf W;770419]"Aha, that is not a blind man it is just a man in dark glasses, walking his labrador and holding his visually impaired friend's white stick you disablist you".
QUOTE]

Reminds me of something that happened once in a pub where I was drinking. I was sat out the back in the pool room and in come 2 blokes one of whom was carrying a pool cue. On entering the room anyone over 5 1/2 foot tall needed to duck under a rather low slung beam, unfortunately one of these 2 guys didn't;

Smeck!

Cue lots of laughter from yours truly at which point his companion rounded on me and demanded to know whether I'd noticed that friend was blind. Turned out he wasn't carrying a pool cue at all. God, I felt so ashamed (and yes, I know I deserved a smack whether he was blind or not but I was 18 at the time)

**BrowneIssue** · 12 February 2009, 11:33

Originally posted by wurzel View Post

his companion rounded on me and demanded to know whether I'd noticed that friend was blind.

Typical.

So it wasn't the blind bloke that complained, it was someone on his behalf. A miserable do-gooder who belittles and disables the blind person by speaking for them.

Still, it might have been nice of this blind person's 'friend' to have warned them of the low beam. What a considerate soul. Not.

**swamp** · 12 February 2009, 11:46

[QUOTE=wurzel;770446]

Originally posted by Alf W View Post

"Aha, that is not a blind man it is just a man in dark glasses, walking his labrador and holding his visually impaired friend's white stick you disablist you".
QUOTE]

Reminds me of something that happened once in a pub where I was drinking. I was sat out the back in the pool room and in come 2 blokes one of whom was carrying a pool cue. On entering the room anyone over 5 1/2 foot tall needed to duck under a rather low slung beam, unfortunately one of these 2 guys didn't;

Smeck!

Cue lots of laughter from yours truly at which point his companion rounded on me and demanded to know whether I'd noticed that friend was blind. Turned out he wasn't carrying a pool cue at all. God, I felt so ashamed (and yes, I know I deserved a smack whether he was blind or not but I was 18 at the time)

Shocking. The beam could have taken his eye out.

igmc

Equality and Diversity training