Davezilla talks about Diversity Training:

The presentation stated with a three minute video with possibly the stupidest analogy I have ever encountered. It talked about the importation of the potato into Ireland. Ireland kept breeding the potato strains together. Eventually only one strain existed which was wiped out during the Potato Famine in the 1840s. They contrasted this with the clever Incas, who grew over 100 strains of potato. This kept the strains diverse and genetically stronger and therefore they never saw a blight.

Presumably the moral is that people are vegetables. Or that if we have 100 varieties of employees we will never suffer a famine. But if those Incas were so damn clever, how come they’all dead and the Irish are still around and well-fed? Riddle me that Batman…

Hee. Funny. The post isn’t anti-diversity, BTW, it’s just anti-bad-presentation.

My company did the diversity training thing about a year ago. My partner and I missed it the first three times, so we had to watch a video of the boring-as-hell presentation. The two of us (that would be big-white-guy-with-shaved-head me and little-skinny-black-dude partner) were not impressed.

I’ve had things to say about this before, and I’m all for the big mind expansion, but damn, does it have to be that god-awful boring?