I am reminded of some "diversity training" I was to attend at work way way back. The "facilitator" was droning on about how we should value everyone's opinion at work blah blah blah.
I asked if we should value the opinion of someone who was against diversity.
Now, of course, I was young and inexperienced and later learned that the "point" of such sessions was to remain quiet and get through it as efficiently as possible.
I later learned how to drink a lot of water and go to the bathroom a lot, and then stroll about the building for 10 minutes.
I later learned that while such things were "mandatory", they really weren't, at least once you had 25 years or so in the company, and I quit going to all of them.
Secretaries would nag me about taking this training that was a full five days residential (off site). i had heard it was bogus, and kept just failing to respond. In August one year, the VP's admin called me and said "John, I'm signing you up for this for either September of December, which is it to be?"
I said December. I retired that October. I imagine they spent money on my hotel room for a week and the training material.
I thought about going as they had open bar each night and the motel was walking distance from my house. Nah.
