What's the most ridiculous work seminar you've had to attend?

For me, it was a training seminar on how to cooperate with fellow workers. It was ridiculous for two reasons: The teachers who had to attend got along fine with each other and with other staff. And at the end of it, we were all forced to get up from our chairs and run around the room in circles flapping our arms and hands while honking like geese. We were told that geese cooperate when they fly together so it would help us if we imitated them.

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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

Greenmountaingal: That would be ripe scenario for a lawsuit...Sounds like something they did in psychology classes in the early 70's...all kinds of junk. Some psychologists came to one of my high school psychology classes and was talking about creativity, she would start telling people to stand up and pose a certain way, and about half the class was standing or whatever, she pointed to me and said "Now you crawl through that guy's legs (he was standing with his legs apart), I just looked at her and said "No" and she ordered me to do it again and I said NO louder and she stopped telling me anything. I wasn't about to crawl around on the floor to begin with and much less through a 16-year old boy's legs. Sheesh...the rest of the class was going along with her bull-crap.