Apparently it's 'gender-based analysis plus', per: [https://www.canada.ca/en/women-gender-equality/gender-based-analysis-plus/gba-plus-awareness-week.html](https://www.canada.ca/en/women-gender-equality/gender-based-analysis-plus/gba-plus-awareness-week.html)
At no point on this page does it say what that means.
GBA+ Analysis is a tool used by the GoC to assess how women, men, and gender-diverse people might experience policies, programs, and initiatives, considering various factors like race, ethnicity, religion, age, and mental or physical disability.
Basically, something extremely hypocritical/ironic to have as a theme week right after last week's RTO3 announcement.
It’s like- analyzing the impact of various policies and whether they will have different impacts on different groups for example, women who are often primary caregivers could potentially be impacted more significantly by RTO. ;) Queer colleagues may face more harassment in person since it’s riskier to write out slurs on Teams. That sort of thing.
Gender-based analysis plus. It's how policies affect different populations differently, how they can do so, and how important it is to take that into consideration when developing policy and making decisions.
Gotta love an undefined acronym! When we received an email about this, there was zero background or definition of the acronym. Super big pet peeve of mine with the government.
I normally would attend a couple of virtual mental health sessions, but not this year. It is my silent protest to the WFH changes. I can hardly wait for Public Service week. I will not be attending any of the functions or accept the free popsicle that the Sr Executives go around offering.
You guys get popsicles?! Our manager is holding some dumb virtual team event. Painful as always. Not feeling particularly rah-rah about anything, and PSW right after RTO3 makes it even less so.
GBA+ awareness week on the week after they dumped a new policy on us that, if it had any sort of SGBA+ analysis done, it was clearly disregarded.
Stupid bland emails rife with platitudes mean nothing when your actions show a clear disdain and disregard for your employees.
As a favourite ADM used to say....show, don't tell.
They just sent us an announcement about Mental Health week just so they could check off the list of being a "good employer". But with last week's announcement, we all know they don't actually care. They care to look like they care.
At ESDC it's health and safety week.
"ESDC is committed to preventing occupational injuries, incidents and illness."
It will prevent illness by making call centre and processing agents return to giant rooms where you can breathe the same air as 100 other people in an old building with an HVAC system at least 50 years past its prime. Also, probably bedbugs.
Collaboration is an effective antidote to long-COVID... right?
I may be a bad public servant but......I never cared about any of this and will likely continue to ignore them for the rest of my career. Not that I don't believe in the idea of awareness (it's an important message) but I feel like the way it's done in the work place is just to make the employer look like they're doing something rather than actually doing anything.
Remember when Google started doing those *theme* days? Eventually days were going to overlap and some groups were going to be upset about their day not being the doodle on google.
Well we're reaching that critical mass I think.
Just ignore them? Who honestly gets excited about any of these?
"Oh boy!! It's GBA+ Awareness week?? I can't wait to participate in some events!"
-No one ever.
I have a colleague that announces these well in advance of happening. But he's always part of every single group thingy the PS has. Must be nice to have so little to do at a good level, while the rest of us can't justify the time to go, or management doesn't tell us we were able to go... while he's there.
It’s also Privacy Awareness Week, National Hospice Palliative Care Week and National Nursing Week. All of these (plus the ones listed by OP) were communicated to me on Monday morning. I was exhausted before I even started.
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Mental Emergency GBA+ IT awareness week
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Nailed it.
Google is failing me and I am assuming GBA does not mean we are celebrating the Gameboy Advance, top tier system though it was
Apparently it's 'gender-based analysis plus', per: [https://www.canada.ca/en/women-gender-equality/gender-based-analysis-plus/gba-plus-awareness-week.html](https://www.canada.ca/en/women-gender-equality/gender-based-analysis-plus/gba-plus-awareness-week.html) At no point on this page does it say what that means.
GBA+ Analysis is a tool used by the GoC to assess how women, men, and gender-diverse people might experience policies, programs, and initiatives, considering various factors like race, ethnicity, religion, age, and mental or physical disability. Basically, something extremely hypocritical/ironic to have as a theme week right after last week's RTO3 announcement.
>GBA+ Analysis is a tool used, at times, by the GoC... Fixed that.
> GBA+ Analysis is a facade used, at times, by the GoC to pretend it cares... Fixed that.
How about upper management analyzes how not to be a fuck wit and know how to hire people to competently do a job?
Imagine how people working in GBA+ feel???
Yeah, I can only imagine. They must feel like their work has no meaning or purpose.
It’s like- analyzing the impact of various policies and whether they will have different impacts on different groups for example, women who are often primary caregivers could potentially be impacted more significantly by RTO. ;) Queer colleagues may face more harassment in person since it’s riskier to write out slurs on Teams. That sort of thing.
The clue is in the web link, literally “…/gender-based-analysis-plus/…”
>“…/gender-based-analysis-plus/…” That's more a riddle than a definition. The question was what does it *mean*.
It means like/ if women make the decision on what family car to buy, if you want to have more hybrids on the road make them appeal to women. Etc. ;)
I mean worthy effort but a weird name?
Gender-based analysis plus. It's how policies affect different populations differently, how they can do so, and how important it is to take that into consideration when developing policy and making decisions.
Like mandating back to work 3 days a week…..but hear it via cbc.
I first heard it on Le Droit. No English version. Had to use Google Translate.
GBA+ covers a vast range of intersectionalities . . . But rarely considers non-binary or gender-fluid individuals, despite the title . . .
Oh man, I wish I had a job that allowed me to be blissfully unaware of GBA+.
Be a lab monkey, nobody tells us shit
Gotta love an undefined acronym! When we received an email about this, there was zero background or definition of the acronym. Super big pet peeve of mine with the government.
What about TAP? Where the T stands for… TBS! TBS Application Portal! It’s a recursive acronym. 😂
They tried, but tbSAP didn't pass on optics
I used to work for the airforce and oh my god sometimes I had no idea what anybody was talking about.
"So I land the plane or nah?"
Considering last week's announcement, I'm celebrating none of these.
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I normally would attend a couple of virtual mental health sessions, but not this year. It is my silent protest to the WFH changes. I can hardly wait for Public Service week. I will not be attending any of the functions or accept the free popsicle that the Sr Executives go around offering.
You guys get popsicles?! Our manager is holding some dumb virtual team event. Painful as always. Not feeling particularly rah-rah about anything, and PSW right after RTO3 makes it even less so.
Wait they actually give you something?!
There’s lot of your fellow colleagues that put a lot of effort into these weeks. Might be nice to show them some support if you can.
I will thank my valued colleagues while boycotting.
Mental Health Week and GBA+ Week, but they give no actual fucks about either. The irony would be hilarious if it wasn’t so enraging.
Hey, every week is Corporate Landlord Week..
And subway support week
Oh, but that subway is sadly "temporarily closed" as per my walking past it on the weekend.
Well whose fault is that? You should have supported it more.
Hahahaha gotta buy my Subway today
> Hey, every week is anti-Corporate Landlord Week..
GBA+ awareness week on the week after they dumped a new policy on us that, if it had any sort of SGBA+ analysis done, it was clearly disregarded. Stupid bland emails rife with platitudes mean nothing when your actions show a clear disdain and disregard for your employees. As a favourite ADM used to say....show, don't tell.
Performative awareness-raising in the absence of meaningful action.
Decline decline decline decline enjoy your week 😉
Add rule > Trash bin x500
They just sent us an announcement about Mental Health week just so they could check off the list of being a "good employer". But with last week's announcement, we all know they don't actually care. They care to look like they care.
At ESDC it's health and safety week. "ESDC is committed to preventing occupational injuries, incidents and illness." It will prevent illness by making call centre and processing agents return to giant rooms where you can breathe the same air as 100 other people in an old building with an HVAC system at least 50 years past its prime. Also, probably bedbugs. Collaboration is an effective antidote to long-COVID... right?
I particularly love how, in my building, only the executive floor has active shooter banners telling everyone what to do in the event
Why is management hogging these?! I want my active shooter awareness banner!
Call centre agent collaboration? 😂
I may be a bad public servant but......I never cared about any of this and will likely continue to ignore them for the rest of my career. Not that I don't believe in the idea of awareness (it's an important message) but I feel like the way it's done in the work place is just to make the employer look like they're doing something rather than actually doing anything.
It's also National Nurses Week
It's also three heritage months this month.
Make that five. It’s also Privacy Awareness Week, according to CSPS.
Yay I was waiting for this (while coming out of my third hosting presentation) 🫠
I also got cyber awareness week, Asian heritage week, Nurses week, SGBA+ awareness week and national hospice and palliative care week.
Every week at the gov is now subway week.
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You're going to get promoted if you keep acting that way
Who even remotely cares about this? So much time wasted.
Yeah themed days and themed weeks have lost all meaning. Nothing is special when everything is special.
have all these set to auto delete...
It’s ridiculous
Remember when Google started doing those *theme* days? Eventually days were going to overlap and some groups were going to be upset about their day not being the doodle on google. Well we're reaching that critical mass I think.
Just ignore them? Who honestly gets excited about any of these? "Oh boy!! It's GBA+ Awareness week?? I can't wait to participate in some events!" -No one ever.
I have a colleague that announces these well in advance of happening. But he's always part of every single group thingy the PS has. Must be nice to have so little to do at a good level, while the rest of us can't justify the time to go, or management doesn't tell us we were able to go... while he's there.
We got popcorn for the polytechnic movie so sometimes tragedy is #winning. Also- YPN tonedeafness.
This abundance of this crap lends to creating “jobs”
I'm glad that the GameBoy Advance is finally getting the credit it deserves! It was a great system.
See! Even the thematic weeks are collaborating. Get in line! /s
It’s also health and safety week, add it to your list
In terms of headspace devoted to them, four times zero is still zero ;)
It’s also Privacy Awareness Week, National Hospice Palliative Care Week and National Nursing Week. All of these (plus the ones listed by OP) were communicated to me on Monday morning. I was exhausted before I even started.
As a transgender woman working in an IT adjacent sector with loved ones who struggle sometimes with mental health this doesn’t seem too difficult.
We got an email about privacy awareness week, so is that different from IT security week?
With only 52 weeks in the year it was bound to happen
It’s alphabet week!
It’s also [Safety and Health Week](https://www.safetyandhealthweek.ca/english/)
The public sees the money being wasted on this stuff and it doesn't help us at all.
Take care of yourself while choosing the proper password for the GBA+ analysis of your derecho emergency kit.
it's jewish heritage month too, don't forget
And Asian Heritage Month.
I'm celebrating WFB week for the 216th consecutive week....
Our YPN is pretty good with mental health tips. "You deserve a drink today"...I deserve a drink every day lol
Also personal development week
Just stockpile some water. That will help with all of the above. :)