What is this Harrison Bergeron shit?

[dorchadas]

Got an email for a training that we have to take at work about bystander intervention. Okay, fair enough, the Bystander Effect is fake but it's still worth reinforcing the urge to intervene, but I'm writing this post due to the note listed on the email:

Note: Given the 1-hour time requirement by law, you cannot skip ahead in this eLearning module; you are asked to spend 60 minutes consuming the information. We appreciate your understanding.

The law requires that everyone receive one hour of instruction, therefore you will be instructed for one hour. Do not resist, citizen.

I wonder if this is the actual law or just corporate idiocy.

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[renegadefolkhero]

I looked this up out of curiosity, and it requires an actual hour of training lol. They need to submit records confirming they did it or be fined up to $1k per employee.

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/cchr/supp_info/sexual-harassment.html

I'm imagining the commission being like, "Well, everyone needs training on this but we know they'll just do like five minutes so how much should we mandate?" and somehow they landed on an hour, maybe not realizing HOW LONG an hour is for a corporate training module. That's about as long as all my annual mandatory training combined.

[dorchadas]

Just chilling here reading every slide in about five-ten seconds and then waiting the rest of the minute before skipping forward to the next slide. Excellent use of my time.