"On her blog she writes: "I have written many posts about how important it is for gay people to come out of the closet at work."
I do not mix the two, and I never understand people who treat work as one big social gathering -- "So, on Saturday night, I was out with Denise -- she has that new boyfriend you know -- well, we just got so drunk! When her boyfriend found out ..."
Sorry. I just don't need to hear anything at all in that vein. Let's discuss our 3 o'clock meeting instead: we have still have numbers to crunch.
I don't see this as a man-woman thing or an "I've got kids" thing. You're here to work. You're getting a paycheck. I have an idea -- focus on the work and shut up about the rest.
I have heard plenty of men talk about their kids at work even being up during the night with them. The author is just an idiot who wants something to complain about. I haven’t seen women treated differently because of talking about their kids.
The old guard used to avoid politics and religion at work.
Men talked about guns, guitars, cars, sports, and masculine things. Women talked about recipes, home decor, and feminine things. Both talked about the weather and their kids. Everyone seemed to get along with one another and shared their experiences. There was no confusion in deciding which restroom to use.
Men are not as masculine and woman are not as feminine as they used to be and the roles have changed to the point women are now “kicking ass” and men have become “pussies”. And gays, lesbians, and gender benders are suddenly everywhere in the workplace.
Toss in some political correctness, minority racism, freedom from religion, animal activism (their pets are their children - want to see some pictures - types), and veginism and you have the “progressive” liberal utopian workplace of today.
Express any conservative view supporting GOD, country, and family and you will be on the outside searching for a new job.
If you get an invitation to one of your co-workers same sex marriages, best tell them you have to be out of town that day attending a PETA meeting or something. Just don’t tell them PETA stands for People who Eat Tasty Animals (Hat tip to Ted Nugent).
I am retired and glad to be out of the workplace jungle. Peace.
Why wouldn’t it be??
BREEDERZ!!!
OK, I just skimmed this. But you haven’t lived until you’ve worked with somebody who’s undergoing gender reassignment.
But I generally believe that you should keep your personal life at home, when in doubt. It helps keep people out of politics and religion and other risky territory. Also if you’re visiting a lot, it may be you’re neglecting your work. You need special care with conversations in ear shot of customers and vendors, too. Vendors can be Typhoid Marys of company gossip, repeating it to competitors, etc.
I will mention a company by name—Days Inn Bozeman, because I generally liked working there, and it was 22 years ago. We had this tiny breakroom, smokers and nonsmokers together. I had lunch outside a lot, with a book, but couldn’t do this every day because its Bozeman and nobody is tough enough to do that in winter without proper clothing, etc. in summer it was like 90 of course. One of the girls talked nonstop about her husband, in-laws, etc. A lot of stuff was also b.s. and it was easy to call her out with inconsistencies in her stories, so I did. This did not go over well. Later she got in trouble for a false accusation of domestic abuse against the husband and even her own mother said she was lying.
Another one was a Queen Bee talking about her fingernails, her ex-husband, what she saw on TV the night before(Alf). I swear that these people are one of the best reasons to become self-employed.
I will add that I am not a big fan of employers trying to tell employees how to live at home on their off-hours either. Swedish Hospital in Seattle tried doing this with cigarette smoking and it did not go over well. Now that marijuana is legal here, I don’t know how they will handle that.
In the immortal words of a character from Dilbert: Having a personal life is like stealing from the company.
People forget that companies are manned by people who spend most of their lives doing something else.