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@dan @irene @alice Oh no, the instructor could have told you the next class at least 🤣 but I guess the situation was maybe a bit too serious. That's the worst thing I heard happen in a negotiation class since an incident where our instructors taught a course to Samsung employees and HR decided to fire a woman who they deemed too aggressive and uncooperative in the exercises. The instructors managed to beg them to reverse course, but shit these classes can be high-stakes huh

@dan @irene @alice Thank goodness for small mercies but also holy shit

@irene @alice It probably is because my instructors must have gotten it from somewhere and also the WHAT

@alice The first exercise assigned in a Negotiations class I took was to hold hands with a partner with our elbows to the desk, for everyone to be awarded one point for each time the back of their partner's hand touched the desk. Most pairs immediately started arm wrestling, but it turned out we had let our assumptions override the actual instructions: The partners could have cooperated to take turns letting each other push their hands down to the desk, meaning the few team members who cooperated to touch the desk as much as possible scored the most points while the arm-wrestlers lost out. It was a perception-expander that changed our idea of what a negotiation could be, and really it's applicable to life in general.

@kdawson That dovetails nicely into a comment I saw recently about Swedish history education consisting of "This territory used to belong to Denmark," "Here's a fort we constructed to defend ourselves from Denmark" and so forth.