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Discrimination in the Workplace

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Hey guys, I was wondering if any of you experienced any kind of discrimination/bias in the workplace due to your sexual preferences. Also, if you care to share, what kind of job was it (clothing store/fast food industry/corporate office...anything really)? I personally feel that in a place of work, sexual preferences shouldn't matter anyway, but some people do like to inquire so I was just wondering. :)
 
Hey there! I have never experienced any type of discrimination in the work place. I manage a Wendy's and just this week went to our corporate office and have had no discrimination there based on my sexual preferences. So dont worry, people are grown up :)
 
briefboy86 said:
Hey there! I have never experienced any type of discrimination in the work place. I manage a Wendy's and just this week went to our corporate office and have had no discrimination there based on my sexual preferences. So dont worry, people are grown up :)
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First of all CONGRATS on moving up!!! (!) Secondly, I'm really glad to hear that you had no issues. I just graduated high school, so I don't have much work experience... lol.
 
Work for one of those oil companies. I think that if you are profession, then it is the work that you do that matters. I would guess I'm mid-management and have gay friends that are supervisors and such.

While I don't think there is any doubt, I've never really talked about it. The supervisor is in his mid-forties and not married and his boss knows. He is well thought of in his area.

Then there was one that was rather pushy in Gay Rights in another area that did not get retained after his internship.

Respect other people and do your job well. Business can not afford to be too narrow.

Rand
 
I wouldn't say that I've ever felt discriminated against, but I've definitely felt hostilities towards me.

I work in advertising sales. I came out while I was working in this job, and I made a decision not to necessarily "come out" at work, but just be truthful when things were brought up/asked about.

Word trickled back to one of my sales managers, and things just got strange. He was new to management. On one hand, he tried to be cool about it. In a weekly meeting I had with him, he was like "hey, so I heard about this. Just wanted you to know I heard about it, but its cool." and I was like, "uh, ok. Moving on...." but then he would make comments that just showed he was uncomfortable because it would be like "Now, we have a promotion coming up that relates to Pride, so I don't know if that's something you'd want to take the reigns on, because, you know..." or "You know Mariah Carey is coming into town, and we think we could set up a really cool afterparty so I don't know if you're aware of a cool kind of place to go for that since she has a big gay following"And it was totally well intentioned, but eventually I just had to tell him that it was cool and appreciated, but to just kind of cool it...

I didn't make a big deal out of it, because I knew he was new to management, maybe three or four years older than me, and I just think he didn't know if it was right to discuss it or not. So I wasn't discriminated against by any means, but there was always a weird thing between him and I after that... he never approached me or talked to me about work the same way afterwards.
 
My coworkers don't mind that I am gay but one of my bosses is very homophobic. He has tried to get me to switch departments before but the other boss whom I love working for refused it. I know he wants to get me laid off badly but he knows I would retaliate (sexual orientation is a protected class in MA). He basically deals with me through emails, IMs and texts only and he doesn't acknowledge me in meetings or face-to-face. Many other coworkers don't like him either but he is basically a dinosaur at the company. If it wasn't for my other boss restraining me (it's a complicated situation to understand if you don't work in either finance or a big "desk" corporation), I probably would have reported him to the COO of my division.

My job probably explains why I am a bitter queen already even though I am only 25.
 
I have gotten it twice....

1) I was fired at Chick-fil-A... they gave me no reason because in Florida you don't have to as its at will.

2) Was at McDonalds. A guy was bothering me, in turn all the people at my store had my back and they fired him. I am still employed with them 3 years later :)
 
I have and it sucks. Unless you can prove it, you can't really do anything about it. If you've ever seen the movie Philadelphia, that's kind of how it goes. Unless you have some big shot attorney behind you, they'll find a way to discriminate and get away with it. I've worked with some very smart people.
 
I'm sorry to hear about your experiences. Has this made any of you wary in choosing places to work?
 
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