11 April 2016, 12.30 pm
I am attending a webinar. It is a namby-pamby webinar about unconscious bias. On reflection, perhaps I should have waited to hear the rest of it before trying to knock myself out; possibly I was taking the “unconscious” bit too literally. My head hurts. It took a lot of effort to get into the webinar. At first the webinar said Go away; you need Internet Explorer to watch this. So I went away and had a word with my computer. The computer said: Go away; I do not like Internet Explorer; I have given you Microsoft Edge instead, and I have locked Internet Explorer away in a dark bit of disk space where it is going quietly mad. But other systems don’t like Microsoft Edge! I moan. The computer does the IT equivalent of a Gallic shrug. Eventually, with the help of something called Cortana – which is kind of like those waiters who ask you if everything’s OK but have no intention of processing your response – I locate Internet Explorer in its dark bit of disk space. It is indeed unstable. Meanwhile, the webinar presenter is competing valiantly against a backing track of people who have not put their microphones on mute. We can all hear what they’re having for lunch, along with various other things they feel it appropriate to discuss whilst supposedly engaging in CPD. Which is quite an eye-opener. At the end of the webinar, the presenter sets us some homework. The homework is to make ourselves conscious of our biases. I am still working on being conscious full stop, with a pack of frozen peas and some gin.
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