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It seems that my employer is sponsoring a seminar to teach us how to bridge the gender communication gap.

I am a pretty good communicator although I admit I can always improve. The number of women engineers has increased over the years. There are currently seven in my work unit. Including the admins makes nine. I have a woman operator working for me but she does not count because she is abnormal. She buys her husband guns (pistols AND an AR), and even bought him a dually crew cab. Yes she is a freak of nature.

So far none of the women have complained about my communication methods.

Anyway, I have been married for 38 years. I fully expect that if one cannot conquer the art of bridging the gender communication gap in 38 years of working in the trenches then one little seminar and a book are a waste of time.

Seldom does a week go by that I pick up on a miscommunication between me and my lovely bride. The term "That is not what I said" scrolls across my subconscious quite often.

I just thought it was a tad strange to spend money on an objective that seems to be made out of unobtanium.

Anygunanywhere

I see you are making a fundamental error when it comes to understanding the training objective.

The purpose is not to help improve any inter-gender communication.

No, the purpose is to document that company-required training was completed for defending against any potential or future litigation. Paper trail.

Then the legal defense revolves around throwing you under the bus: "we provided training, but this caveman chose to ignore both the training and company policy."

Jumping Frog wrote:I see you are making a fundamental error when it comes to understanding the training objective.

The purpose is not to help improve any inter-gender communication.

No, the purpose is to document that company-required training was completed for defending against any potential or future litigation. Paper trail.

Then the legal defense revolves around throwing you under the bus: "we provided training, but this caveman chose to ignore both the training and company policy."

Where is that face palm smilie?



Actually, just showed my pics from the weekend of my 6 week old grandson sleeping on my chest Sunday morning to my admin and one of the woman engineers so I am not actually a total caveman.

Anygunanywhere

Jumping Frog wrote: No, the purpose is to document that company-required training was completed for defending against any potential or future litigation. Paper trail.

Exactly, in private business this training almost always results out of one of two things: 1) A complaint or threatened/actual litigation regarding discrimination or hostile work environment due to the workplace being a "good ole boys club" environment, or 2) Insurance requires that type of training to be conducted to have such lawsuits covered.

It's a different story in government or government subsidized industries...

I am not attending the training, just so you know.

Yet.

It is scheduled for corporate offices for now, not field.

Anygunanywhere

anygunanywhere wrote:She buys her husband guns (pistols AND an AR), and even bought him a dually crew cab. Yes she is a freak of nature.

Anygunanywhere

Wait till I tell mrs.jmra that she fits your description of a freak of nature.

jmra wrote:

anygunanywhere wrote:She buys her husband guns (pistols AND an AR), and even bought him a dually crew cab. Yes she is a freak of nature.

Anygunanywhere

Wait till I tell mrs.jmra that she fits your description of a freak of nature.

Anygunanywhere

jmra wrote:

anygunanywhere wrote:She buys her husband guns (pistols AND an AR), and even bought him a dually crew cab. Yes she is a freak of nature.

Anygunanywhere

Wait till I tell mrs.jmra that she fits your description of a freak of nature.

LOL< my wife just said, hey that fits me and us.... then I told her the description labeled her as a freak of nature.. She responded in a tone and language Im not permitted to posts on this forum

E.Marquez wrote:

jmra wrote:

anygunanywhere wrote:She buys her husband guns (pistols AND an AR), and even bought him a dually crew cab. Yes she is a freak of nature.

Anygunanywhere

Wait till I tell mrs.jmra that she fits your description of a freak of nature.

LOL< my wife just said, hey that fits me and us.... then I told her the description labeled her as a freak of nature.. She responded in a tone and language Im not permitted to posts on this forum

Ya'll would have to know my operator to truly understand my description. She freely admits that she nowhere fits the mold of a typical woman.

Anygunanywhere

anygunanywhere wrote:

E.Marquez wrote:

jmra wrote:

anygunanywhere wrote:She buys her husband guns (pistols AND an AR), and even bought him a dually crew cab. Yes she is a freak of nature.

Anygunanywhere

Wait till I tell mrs.jmra that she fits your description of a freak of nature.

LOL< my wife just said, hey that fits me and us.... then I told her the description labeled her as a freak of nature.. She responded in a tone and language Im not permitted to posts on this forum

Ya'll would have to know my operator to truly understand my description. She freely admits that she nowhere fits the mold of a typical woman.

Anygunanywhere

If only that were the mold....

E.Marquez wrote:

jmra wrote:

anygunanywhere wrote:She buys her husband guns (pistols AND an AR), and even bought him a dually crew cab. Yes she is a freak of nature.

Anygunanywhere

Wait till I tell mrs.jmra that she fits your description of a freak of nature.

LOL< my wife just said, hey that fits me and us.... then I told her the description labeled her as a freak of nature.. She responded in a tone and language Im not permitted to posts on this forum

yea my wife did too, something about stooped privates and not being able to comprehend, went something like this (in best female drill SGT voice) I TOLD YA BUT NOOOO YOU WOULDN"T LISTEN, YOUR GOAT SMELLIN *** HADDA DO SOMETHING I TOLD YA NOT TOO I'm gonna be tired tonight watchin you push to austrailia

JP171 wrote:

E.Marquez wrote:

jmra wrote:

anygunanywhere wrote:She buys her husband guns (pistols AND an AR), and even bought him a dually crew cab. Yes she is a freak of nature.

Anygunanywhere

Wait till I tell mrs.jmra that she fits your description of a freak of nature.

LOL< my wife just said, hey that fits me and us.... then I told her the description labeled her as a freak of nature.. She responded in a tone and language Im not permitted to posts on this forum

yea my wife did too, something about stooped privates and not being able to comprehend, went something like this (in best female drill SGT voice) I TOLD YA BUT NOOOO YOU WOULDN"T LISTEN, YOUR GOAT SMELLIN *** HADDA DO SOMETHING I TOLD YA NOT TOO I'm gonna be tired tonight watchin you push to austrailia

A former male co-worker of mine used to tell everyone:

I've been married for 30 years.

In that time I have found that I must do the following 4 things:

Listen

Drive

Carry

Pay.

:-)

(The carry part was just gear in general, not gun carry).

SIA

surprise_i'm_armed wrote:A former male co-worker of mine used to tell everyone:

I've been married for 30 years.

In that time I have found that I must do the following 4 things:

Listen

Drive

Carry

Pay.

:-)

(The carry part was just gear in general, not gun carry).

SIA

5 things.

Open doors.

Anygunanywhere

anygunanywhere wrote:It seems that my employer is sponsoring a seminar to teach us how to bridge the gender communication gap.

I am a pretty good communicator although I admit I can always improve. The number of women engineers has increased over the years. There are currently seven in my work unit. Including the admins makes nine. I have a woman operator working for me but she does not count because she is abnormal. She buys her husband guns (pistols AND an AR), and even bought him a dually crew cab. Yes she is a freak of nature.

So far none of the women have complained about my communication methods.

Anyway, I have been married for 38 years. I fully expect that if one cannot conquer the art of bridging the gender communication gap in 38 years of working in the trenches then one little seminar and a book are a waste of time.

Seldom does a week go by that I pick up on a miscommunication between me and my lovely bride. The term "That is not what I said" scrolls across my subconscious quite often.

I just thought it was a tad strange to spend money on an objective that seems to be made out of unobtanium.

Anygunanywhere

As one who worked in a BIG company environment for 38 years, I'd suggest yet another reason for the seminar. The "personnel" types who run and host them would agree with you that there is little hope of you every bridging the gender gap (and several other gaps that I won't mention here) but you need a periodic reminder of your gross inadequacies in this area as well as demonstration of the "enlightenment" that you lack.