I know I'm preaching to the choir here and nothing I'm about to say is new or insightful, but holy shit there's nothing more draining than listening to some HR bitch yap as she wastes the time of people with real jobs. Look lady, I know you have to pretend that you aren't a parasite and that your adult daycare job is important, but those of us who create the excess productivity for you to leech off of have shit to do. I hear these cunts are a real joy in the dating market too, but I've been spared any first hand experience on that front.
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Its not nearly as serious. Its literally just "hey we have a meeting today about not harassing women" and they expect you to not be on your phone or talking in the back. Its annoying more than a serious threat, but its also non-negotiable.
The worst ones I've dealt with were 4~ hours on a single module, basically removed your ability to do any other work for the day after. And most jobs seem to do "yearly refreshes" where you have to redo 90% of them every year, which can add up to something like 40+ hours between them all. Which is literally a week of lost productivity at the minimum.
Absolutely the case, else it wouldn't be so omnipresent. My company literally said "we will eat the consequences, we aren't enforcing the vaxx, its more money lost that way" but still complies with these HR jokes.
Most frivolous lawsuits weren't as frivolous as they seemed, but the corporations who lost had great connections to journalists and media to make it sound like they were.
Small Civil Court shit like Judge Judy is filled with frivolous lawsuits, but the big corporate ones usually have to pass a lot of smell tests to even get there. Not that some haven't made it through, but the "you can sue anyone in America lol!" meme is more of a European's consuming too much news media than reality.
Weird stuff. Apparently, a lot of people have the same experience as you, because people are very Mad at me. I guess I should be thankful that this is condensed into a stupid training here.
Oh, I'm aware, even the McDonald's case. But the 'hostile work environment' stuff is pretty crap. Like the black guy who got $160 million at some Elon Musk company because a Mexican called him 'nigga'. Maybe it's not even the frivolous nature but the huge punitive payouts. Here, you get back pay and very small punitive damages, if any.
What's up then with GOP trying to limit liability? Just a giveaway to corporate interests? (Not surprised.)
I think its also a huge selection bias. Its very overpresent in office/corporate jobs, and not nearly as common in the rest of the job market. Mine are pretty minimal enough to not be more than a novelty that I just know about, while others it might be constant.
But a lot of people's in these types of forums are office drones working in tech and other silly stuff that inspired Office Space in the first place.
DEI and other Woke laws are one of the primary sources of what we would consider the frivolous ones, because its a pretty instant win thanks to laws on the book like Title IX and the Civil Rights Act's numerous forms. Because you really don't have to "prove damages" other than "I was emotionally hurt because they insulted my gender/sexuality/race."
Its why the HR thing is so beloved by corporations. Because in theory its designed to minimize that specific scenario.