[crouton] Nathaniel Trost: The Buddahead Doll of Intolerance and Harrassment

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Posted by Nathaniel Trost:
The Buddahead Doll of Intolerance and Harrassment
http://crouton.powerblogs.com/archives/archive_2006_01_08-2006_01_14.shtml#=
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   My personal quote of the day: =E2That=E2s it, I=E2m writing a post digit=
al
   age New Testament with rent-a-cops need/greed rolling on Jesus iPod
   Shuffle.=E2
   I=E2m hardly in the Microsoft is evil camp, but this is truly an amusing
   piece of work: [1]Re-introducing the Real Windows Vista. Tee hee hee.
   As the dust settles from MacWorld I discover that someone at Apple was
   tuned into my secret little wishes and desires. Apple is letting
   people who got the Developer Transition Kit (that would be me) trade
   them in for one of the new Intel iMacs at no charge. And unlike the
   DTKs, the iMacs can be kept permanently. Wicked cool.
   One of the consequences of business in the state of California, is
   once you reach a certain size, you must have all employees engage in
   mandatory workplace sensitivity/sexual harassment training. Like
   almost everything in this day and age, it can now be satisfied via an
   online web-based program.
   Thus I was required to waste two hours of my life occasionally
   clicking =E2Next=E2, =E2A=E2, =E2B=E2, =E2C=E2 or =E2D=E2 while listenin=
g to poorly
   recorded audio clips and even more entertainingly inane video shorts.
   The most amusing thing to me was that at the beginning of of the
   course, there was a disclaimer regarding some of the potentially
   offensive or upsetting things, not condoning, done for the purposes of
   education, blah blah, yadda yadda.
   This became more amusing when the most dire thing represented in the
   course was, far from say Caligula, Dolemite or Men Behaving Badly, but
   rather a couple of white guys who look like DeVry drop-outs calling
   their asian co-worker =E2Buddahead=E2 at the lunch table.
   I predict as a result of this training, the workplace will become
   filled with =E2Buddahead=E2 references across all gender, ethnic and
   religious lines. And =E2borderline behavior=E2 will increase by
   approximately 350% in the week following the training.
   I guess in such a charged climate, leaving the assess chaps at home
   for a couple weeks might be wise.

References

   1. http://tauquil.com/archives/2006/01/06/re-introducing-the-real-window=
s-vista/