I've had a generic harassment training, not specifically sexual, but one thing I hate about all those trainings is how infantilizing they are. They all had some "gamified" aspect to their horrendously simple multiple choice questions (the answer is always "talk to HR"), they presented simplified situations with no real shades of grey, and they assumed the employee had the intellectual level of a five year old. I've heard about workplaces with real harassment, I'm not sure why we can't use those examples instead of a scripted version that wouldn't be out of place on a Saturday morning cartoon.
On a different tack, I am part of an allegedly marginalized group. I would love if they replaced the infantilizing trainings with videos and podcasts featuring people from my group talking about technology, talking about their careers in technology, and dressed in a wide variety of professional attires and not just what is stereotypical for my group. But then they'd have to do that for every allegedly marginalized group and I'd spend half my week in diversity training. So I'd prefer if they let me code. If my coworkers need to be babied in order to not commit crimes on work premises, maybe they shouldn't have been hired in the first place.
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I've had a generic harassment training, not specifically sexual, but one thing I hate about all those trainings is how infantilizing they are. They all had some "gamified" aspect to their horrendously simple multiple choice questions (the answer is always "talk to HR"), they presented simplified situations with no real shades of grey, and they assumed the employee had the intellectual level of a five year old. I've heard about workplaces with real harassment, I'm not sure why we can't use those examples instead of a scripted version that wouldn't be out of place on a Saturday morning cartoon.
On a different tack, I am part of an allegedly marginalized group. I would love if they replaced the infantilizing trainings with videos and podcasts featuring people from my group talking about technology, talking about their careers in technology, and dressed in a wide variety of professional attires and not just what is stereotypical for my group. But then they'd have to do that for every allegedly marginalized group and I'd spend half my week in diversity training. So I'd prefer if they let me code. If my coworkers need to be babied in order to not commit crimes on work premises, maybe they shouldn't have been hired in the first place.