What do you do about people who tell gay jokes at work? What if they offend you? What if you tell gay jokes that are not taken well? What do you do if you are not out at work and are offended by gay jokes? Follow the steps below and hopefully you will end up [...]
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Whether we like it or not, HIV and AIDS are real problems facing the LGBT community. The question one often asks is whether they should tell their employer if they are HIV positive. This can become a point of major contention amongst legal scholars and just ordinary citizens. How, then, are you supposed to figure [...] 54% percent of closeted LGBT workers had to lie about their personal lives in the last year while only 21% of those who are out had to lie. These are statistics from a recently published HRC report (see link at end of article) which talks about LGBT treatment and attitudes in the workplace. While still [...] The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) just released a report on the state of the workplace for LGBT Employees. I encourage everyone to read this. The information will astound you. It will also help you to see that others are experiencing the exact issues that you do. A few highlights: 1/3 of Fortune 500 companies prohibit discrimination based [...] I work in a field that is primarily made up of straight white married men. In my 13 years on the job at various companies in three states, I have only run into one other confirmed gay guy. No lesbians. Now, I did have a married man hit on me and I did hire someone [...] While listening to Sirius XM Satellite Radio lately, I have been hearing a commercial play frequently. It is a promo for the Catholic Channel. This commercial talks about the topics they cover. The one topic is about how religion in the workplace is dangerous for the Catholic and/or Christian. I suggest that any topics surrounding [...] Should a company offer a training session on diversity or LGBT issues? When I worked for a Fortune 500 company, we had to take an ethics training session every year. It was a common sense overview of ethics issues and a sales pitch for the company’s ethics violations reporting. Honestly, that training was pretty worthless [...] Is it right to hire “family” over experience? If you were hiring someone for a position, as an LGBT person, would you hire another LGBT person just because of their sexual orientation? Some people would and some others would say that it is your obligation to do so. Personally, I will hire the candidate that [...] |
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It's Nobody's Business
In the HRC’s new report on equality in the workplace, they found that 60% of people who are not out at work is due to the reason that it is “nobody’s business.” For me this is a foreign concept. I mean, I understand that people want privacy, but it has always bothered me that people [...]