I had to attend a mandatory training recently on personality type. I have the opportunity to comment on the training and i am getting increasingly annoyed. It is me... or why does my employer and or co workers have any right whatsoever to know such personal information about me?


We were asked to

(1) state our hobbies. I stated mine. I was laughed at. Yes everyone laughed. Thank you training people for that lovely memory.

(2) we were asked to write down a personal memory from our youth and then give it to other people. We didn't know other people would be seeing it until we wrote it down. There were many awkward moments with this.

(3) we did our personality test and were divided into our groups. We were not told we would be divided into our groups when doing the test. Accordingly if you messed up the test or didn't take it seriously you could be in the wrong group and, forever, more, be labeled as a certain type of person with your co workers.


In theory this was to make us know how to see things like our co workers do but I don't see why I have to. Do your job and nothing else matters.


I feel like who I am what I do in my free time is for ME to dole out to people, or not. Not be forced to cough up in front of all my co workers so they can speculate and gossip even more.


Before I make those comments -- am I off base?