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 [...] 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 [...] Whether we want to admit it or not, sometimes we are required to have a “straight” interview. Often we see large conservative organizations such as banks or computer companies as monolithic giants that want straight-laced employees. In the heydays of IBM, the service engineers all wore navy blue polyester suits with black wing-tip shoes, a [...] I am certainly not a lawyer. Unfortunately, it does not take one to understand the U.S. Government’s policies on discrimination. Every time you seek employment you will see a statement that says: This company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or age. We all hope these statements [...] |
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Lying from the Closet @work
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 [...]