you should probably read this
but for what it's worth, I agree 

and no, the irony that I have a similar suit is not lost on me 
Probably a boring story, but "the company" decided many years ago some of us (not me they had already worked me out, sort of

) should go to some of those courses (Dog knows why most INJINEERS are strange).
Anyway, I am there working away in a shared office, phone rings I pick it up, pleasant lady explains what company she is from and asks for my colleague, I scream down the passage, "HOY BASIL ITS DALE CARNIGUIE ON THE LINE, COME AND ASSERT YOURSELF!!!" he got some very amusing "comments" about my atitude to her companies courses