The Matt Walsh Show - December 22, 2021


Remembering Woke HR Training with Matt Walsh

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As we are reflecting on the past year, and I think about what this past year was all about, and it really was about suffering, that s what every day of life is about. Life is suffering. And one thing that I suffered through this past decade was HR training videos that basically my producer forced me to watch. Because again, the sadistic people in the audience, and even the Sweet Baby Gang, like to watch me suffer. So we re going back and, and now we re all going to suffer through it one more time. We re going to go back and review some of these HR videos and see if there s anything we missed in them the first time around.

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00:00:00.000 As we are reflecting on this past year, and I think about what this past year was all about,
00:00:04.640 and it really, it was all about suffering. And that's what every year is. That's what every day
00:00:09.520 of life is suffering. Life is suffering. And one thing that I suffered through this past year was
00:00:17.120 HR training videos that basically my producer forced me to watch. Because again, the sadistic
00:00:25.420 people in the audience, and even the Sweet Baby Gang, like to watch me suffer. So we're going to
00:00:29.240 go back and, and now we're all going to suffer through it one more time. We're going to go back
00:00:33.100 and review some of these HR videos and see if there's anything we missed in them the first time
00:00:38.360 around. Let's watch. You know, one of the great things about working in conservative media is that
00:00:42.460 I don't have to take any insufferable, horrible diversity and inclusion, HR, you know, training
00:00:49.280 courses at work that a lot of people have to be subjected to. I've never been subjected to that
00:00:53.540 from our HR department. But many of you have had to endure it. So I thought that today,
00:00:59.240 maybe as an act of solidarity, because I'm such a generous person, I would endure some of this
00:01:03.820 training to see what it's like, just to see how the other half lives and perhaps to offer my own,
00:01:09.680 my own review of it, I guess, shall we say. So this is from a company called mTrain, which according
00:01:15.100 to the website, venturebeat.com is, quote, a startup providing online education and guidance on human
00:01:21.780 resources and compliance topics. Among their clients are Dolby, Live Nation, Netflix, Yelp,
00:01:27.320 BuzzFeed, and the New York Times. Maybe at your own job, you've had to sit through videos like
00:01:31.960 this. Maybe if you work at one of those, if you work at one of those places, you're probably not
00:01:34.840 watching my videos. But either way, if you have had to watch these, you have my condolences. Now,
00:01:41.320 mTrain has all their videos proudly displayed on their YouTube channel where they generously allow
00:01:45.860 you to watch it for free. So you don't even have to work at one of these places to do it. So in your
00:01:50.080 free time, if you're wondering, you know, what you can do to be more diverse and inclusive in your
00:01:54.960 personal life, you can always go to this channel, check out their offerings. They've got videos on,
00:02:00.340 what do they got, workplace harassment. They've got videos. Those are probably good. They've got
00:02:03.980 stuff on sexism in the workplace. They've got some HIPAA compliance videos. We might skip those. I
00:02:09.220 don't know. Today, we're going to skim through their managing unconscious bias playlist, how to manage
00:02:15.340 your unconscious bias. Because you can't get rid of your unconscious bias. You just got to learn to
00:02:18.960 live with it and manage it, right? So they've got many offerings in this genre. We'll watch maybe
00:02:24.800 a few of them today. And we'll start with this. This is a video called Examples of Unconscious Bias 0.97
00:02:30.000 Pattern Matching. So the idea here is a little confusing at first, but they show us a scenario
00:02:35.400 and then you jump to the wrong conclusion about that scenario based on stereotypes because you're 0.97
00:02:42.320 a worthless bigot. And then we find out what was really happening. Okay. So that's basically how 0.97
00:02:46.580 this works. And let's take a look.
00:02:48.780 Hey. All right. Let's see.
00:02:58.580 It's the dry cleaners down on Mission. Two blocks up. You know, you know, you know. I need the red shirt and I'll see you later.
00:03:17.840 All right. Okay. We'll just stop there for a second because what the hell kind of dry cleaning
00:03:25.480 transaction is that? That's what I want to know. So I'm supposed to feel bad because I saw the two 1.00
00:03:30.800 guys whispering in a corner and exchanging wads of cash on a street corner. And I didn't immediately
00:03:36.040 assume it was a dry cleaning thing. You're going to blame me for that. That's my fault. No, I'm not
00:03:42.440 unconsciously biased for not taking the dry cleaning possibility into consideration initially. That
00:03:47.680 doesn't make me biased. I'm just a sane, rational person. And I have lived in the world. And I know
00:03:52.680 that usually when two guys are on a street corner whispering and exchanging money, it's not because
00:03:57.040 one of them wants their shirt ironed. But very often, sane rationality is confused with bias these
00:04:01.920 days. And the thing is, it's also, it's also, this is one of my problems with it. It's dangerous
00:04:05.680 to tell people not to make common sense assumptions in the world. We do have to make
00:04:12.060 assumptions about people. And they're not always going to be flattering assumptions.
00:04:16.260 Like if you're heading into a part of town where you're going for a jog or something and you end
00:04:20.980 up at a part of town where you see a lot of guys on street corners taking wads of cash from random
00:04:24.640 people and then handing them unknown objects, which they discreetly tuck away in their pocket,
00:04:30.460 it's probably safe as to turn around and head in the other direction rather than assuming that this
00:04:35.100 is just a part of town where everybody really likes to have their pants properly pressed. 1.00
00:04:39.160 So, um, this has gotten off to a stupid, stupid start already. As stupid as expected, I guess. 1.00
00:04:45.880 Let's try a new video. This one is called, um, this is called Examples of Microaggressions in the 1.00
00:04:51.540 Workplace. All right. So the famous microaggressions, we've all heard about them. Now we get to see an
00:04:56.260 example of them. Let's watch this.
00:04:58.060 My hair looks crazy. It looks like a mess.
00:05:00.000 I don't believe it. Your hair always looks awesome.
00:05:02.140 I mean, how do you do it? Do you twist it? Do you do it yourself?
00:05:04.440 Yeah. Yeah. I twist it myself.
00:05:06.300 Oh, I mean, do you mind? Oh, yeah, actually I, I do mind.
00:05:11.200 Oh, sorry.
00:05:12.240 But I mean, if you're really curious about it, there are like tons of YouTube videos out now about
00:05:19.000 natural hair. So maybe check that out. 0.99
00:05:23.620 Okay. So that, that's a microaggression. I still don't know what a microaggression is. I just watched
00:05:28.880 an example of it. I'm not even sure who committed the microaggression. There was a microaggression
00:05:33.300 floating around there somewhere. I'm not sure who it's emanating from. Um, now I agree that it's weird
00:05:37.920 for someone to want to touch your hair. You know, I, I wouldn't want someone touching. I don't want
00:05:41.360 someone touching any part of me, uh, in the workplace. And so, but, but haven't you just made
00:05:46.260 it a hell of a lot more awkward by turning it into a big deal and then telling them to consult
00:05:52.100 YouTube. So you're the one who's made this awkward. It was already a little bit awkward.
00:05:56.840 You've just ramped the awkward up to level 10. Now before it was like a three or four. Now it's a 10
00:06:01.860 because of you. Someone says, Hey, can I touch your hair? Uh, no, but there are YouTube videos for
00:06:06.740 hair touching freaks like yourself. I want to check some of those out. See, it seems like the
00:06:11.600 response is even weirder than the initial request. And at any rate, how does that count as a
00:06:16.180 microaggression? The white lady was trying to pay the black lady a compliment about her hair, 1.00
00:06:22.200 maybe awkwardly, but you know, not every awkward human interaction or clumsy comment or, or even
00:06:28.240 impolite action is a microaggression. Sometimes it's just someone being awkward or impolite. It happens.
00:06:35.140 It happens in the world. In fact, nothing that happens ever is a microaggression because that's
00:06:42.960 a made up category and it doesn't mean anything. Uh, there are more examples with this video. So
00:06:48.060 let's, let's keep going. How do people at work sit through this and just keep their mouth shut?
00:06:54.100 I wouldn't be able to do it. I couldn't physically do it. If you feel like you're not getting the
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00:08:08.840 or just click the link below. So this has been, uh, this has been really fun. Not really fun.
00:08:13.000 Actually, it's been something, uh, it's been something at least I'll say that, uh, that much.
00:08:16.620 At least I decided that because, because many of you work at places with HR departments that
00:08:22.340 make you sit through sensitivity training videos. I should both as a form of, um, as an act of
00:08:29.040 solidarity, but also as a form of sort of anthropological research, I decided I should
00:08:33.400 subject myself to the same. I found these videos on the YouTube channel of a company called
00:08:40.460 M train, which provides sensitivity training material to a lot of big companies like Buzzfeed
00:08:45.860 and live nation. And I think New York times, which accompanies, they use this company to
00:08:50.320 give them their sensitivity training material. So last time we watched, uh, their videos on
00:08:55.560 microaggressions in the workplace. And those were great today. We're going to take some time to watch
00:09:01.400 some of their teaching, uh, videos on the important issue of workplace harassment. This is an issue
00:09:08.720 that's very important to me. Um, I am often harassed here at my job. For example, the other
00:09:16.740 day I wanted to go brew some coffee and, uh, and I went to the cabinet where the coffee filters are
00:09:22.540 supposed to be. And there was no coffee filters. I actually had to walk to a different cabinet to
00:09:26.840 get them. So I considered that to be in a way, a form of harassment, maybe even a microaggression.
00:09:32.380 I don't know. Uh, I'm not sure if M train would consider that harassment or not, but we'll find
00:09:36.900 out. So let's start here. Here's a video. This one is on inappropriate touching. Sounds pretty frisky.
00:09:42.740 We'll, uh, we'll take a look and see what we find out. Okay, great. So pull the numbers from last
00:09:53.400 year and plug them into the report and then distribute it before we meet with Christine tomorrow.
00:09:57.460 Okay, absolutely. I can do that. Oh, last late night. Just in time. I need to get back to the gym.
00:10:03.800 Me too. My back is killing me. It's like there's a knife between my shoulders.
00:10:08.100 Have you tried a yoga roller? Works for me.
00:10:10.200 That doesn't do any good. There's really only one thing.
00:10:12.820 Okay. I can, this is already heading bad places, but I see where this is, this is setting up.
00:10:17.600 And, uh, I, I, I feel like I know where this is going.
00:10:20.460 You know, I hate to ask, but would you, would you walk on my back?
00:10:26.380 Walk on your back? I mean, no, I, I mean, I'd hurt you. 0.81
00:10:30.680 My daughter does it all the time. Really, it's the only thing that helps. I'd really appreciate it.
00:10:34.080 No, I can't do that.
00:10:35.260 No, come on. It'll take two minutes. It'll really help me out.
00:10:39.900 Come on.
00:10:40.860 I don't think I should do this.
00:10:42.740 Help me out.
00:10:43.320 Help me out.
00:10:43.380 Help me out.
00:10:50.460 Ah, there you go.
00:10:54.620 Oh, that's just stuff.
00:10:57.020 That's it.
00:10:58.040 Right there, right there, right there.
00:11:03.600 Okay. I have to tell you, I, I didn't, I thought I knew where it was going.
00:11:08.220 It, I didn't expect that.
00:11:09.660 That's not where I thought.
00:11:11.200 So that was a, there was a twist ending at the end there.
00:11:13.820 Kind of an M. Night Shyamalan twist ending.
00:11:16.180 So I have questions.
00:11:16.880 Number one, is this really a common problem in the American office environment?
00:11:22.060 I admit I haven't worked in, you know, I was, I was working from home for years.
00:11:25.180 I haven't worked in an office environment that much.
00:11:28.300 I haven't seen anybody walking on anybody's back here.
00:11:31.180 I can report, is this a common thing that comes up a lot?
00:11:34.260 Because I've never heard this in my life.
00:11:36.620 I could just be naive.
00:11:37.900 Do women often get approached by men at work, asking them to walk on their backs? 0.99
00:11:44.160 What other weird requests do you get? 0.99
00:11:46.080 Like, hey, listen, hate to ask, would you mind hitting me in the shins with a crowbar? 0.99
00:11:50.840 Would you mind? 0.99
00:11:51.480 It would really help me out.
00:11:52.320 Thanks a lot.
00:11:52.820 I appreciate it.
00:11:54.780 I don't know.
00:11:55.440 This, this seems like kind of a niche grievance.
00:11:58.640 This seems way too specific.
00:12:00.280 I just imagine the brainstorming session at M train when they were deciding on their next
00:12:04.740 harassment skit. 1.00
00:12:06.640 And somebody was like, oh, I know.
00:12:08.820 Let's do one where someone wants a lady to walk on their back. 1.00
00:12:12.520 Yeah, let's do that one.
00:12:13.500 Dude, you're telling on yourself a little bit.
00:12:16.660 Calm down.
00:12:17.240 This isn't very professional.
00:12:19.060 The second point, though, is why did she do it?
00:12:22.780 See, this is always a problem I have.
00:12:24.060 Even some of the, the me too stories that you hear about.
00:12:26.740 And I, you know, this is a me too.
00:12:27.880 This is a me, this, this woman, this is a me too right now.
00:12:30.180 We're watching a me too happen.
00:12:31.640 But why did you do it?
00:12:33.880 You could tell she was, she was very uncomfortable and she's looking traumatized as she's walking
00:12:38.980 on the dude's back.
00:12:41.360 Just walk out of the room.
00:12:42.960 If you're going to walk, just keep, keep walking out of the room, walk over his back out of
00:12:47.460 the room and then go tell someone and say, hey, this freak in there is laying on the
00:12:51.440 ground, begging me to walk on him.
00:12:54.100 Call the police.
00:12:54.980 That I don't understand.
00:12:57.740 You know, I, I kind of feel like if you're a woman in the workplace, someone asks you
00:13:01.440 to do that and you actually do it, then you're just as much to blame as he is. 0.99
00:13:06.240 If I'm the boss, I'd fire you both for being a bunch of weirdos. 0.98
00:13:09.280 If I walk into the room and see that you're both gone. 0.99
00:13:12.360 I don't care that the woman has a troubled expression. 0.77
00:13:15.500 I don't know if I should be doing it.
00:13:16.740 Get out of here. 0.98
00:13:17.200 You both, you freaks. 0.99
00:13:18.520 Get a motel room. 0.96
00:13:19.500 If you're going to do that, don't do it here.
00:13:21.140 Yeah.
00:13:21.460 Just as abysmal as I remember.
00:13:22.680 I'm glad that we could experience that again one more time as the year comes to a close.
00:13:27.740 Really, really special moment that we were able to share together.
00:13:30.480 You're welcome.