CBC Radio 3’s Craig Norris attended the mandatory “Respect in the Workplace” workshop, and has posted his tongue-in-cheek list of “ways that I plan to instill and then foster more respect in our workplace.”
Craig’s List is featured each Tuesday on “The Happy Morning Funtime Show” on Sirius 94.
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At the end of this painful four-hour seminar we were asked to describe how we felt about the session.
I checked my dictionary and my thesaurus. There is no single word for “condescending waste of time.”
Here’s my respectful list of things that were disrespectful about the respect sessions:
-I felt disrespected by the condescending tone with which we were addressed by the instructors. The exercises were juvenile and did not take into account our intelligence or the reality of our workplace.
-I felt disrespected by the fact that the instructors were far too gung ho about the union, I felt like it was a recruiting session. My own experience with the union has left much to be desired and quite frankly the union is the last place I would go to complain about disrespect.
-if the cbc is not a healthy, respectful workplace environment, as the studies presented at the session seem to indicate, why then would cbc staff lead the session.
-four hours for a session that left me with very little knowledge of what the processes are and how the cbc will address its unhealthy environment was disrespectful of my time and the job I’m being paid to do.
Come to think of it, I came away from the afternoon with a new respect - for myself