Apr 10 2009
not even if you paid me….
I have a love hate with my job. I love the fact that I can afford a house and to travel thanks to my job - but I hate the politics, and petty BS that come with it. I also know it simply is just not safe to be out at work.
I hold a mid-management position in a good ole boys company. I really am the red headed step child in the corner office. Most days I try to fly under the radar, do my thing and go home at 5pm.
Everyone at work knows I have a significant other. I’m lucky enough to have a girlfriend that loves to send me flowers - She never puts her name on the cards, always just my nickname for her (which is very genderless). I never say much when I’ve gotten them, I stay vague - and make it clear that I don’t mix my personal life with my professional….
I am only out to 2 people at work. The coworker I had mentioned in a previous blog is now some how my supervisor and oh hell is that weird. He is younger, doesn’t know any lesbians and completely fascinated by me. I will give him credit though he has not outed me to anyone else in our office, but I do get quite often rather un-PC comments and I either shrug them off or I laugh.
In the office next door to me - is a bible beater. He works my very last nerve - not only for his dedication to the bible, but for the fact he must share with all of us about how he goes to bible study every morning before work. Well because I am lucky enough to be in the office next to his, he always wants to stop and chat (yay for me!) - normally I half listen, surf the web or reply to emails as he is talking to me. I have often wondered if he has ever caught my glazed over look as he dribbles on about god knows what….
At least once a week - he always asks me how it’s going with my boyfriend *cough* - and I always just sorta nod my head, say it’s going well and quickly change the subject. There has been many a time I’ve wanted to just out myself to him, so he’d stop asking me that annoying question. But I sense if I did - I’d come to work with a bible sitting on my desk and him telling me he prays for me often.
sorry prayer is not going to make me straight LOL
well Monday he did his weekly asking of how it was going and I decided to step it up a notch and told him it was going phenomenal - well before I know it, he’s inviting “us” over for dinner with him and his wife. He then said maybe sometime we could join them for Sunday service
ugh! not even if you paid me *shaking head*
I don’t mix my personal life as a lesbian with my professional life in managment. Why must this yoyo force feed everyone the bible on a daily basis? You always hear about a seperation of church and state…and how they don’t want prayer in school etc etc
isn’t there something somewhere that states that this should be left out of the work place too?
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AMEN! Oh, my bad, I mean, Hell yeah!! i too am in a mid management good ole boy network. My field is all about the boys and the UN-PC crap is amazing. Most times I nod and say “pig” under my breath. I am out however, though they still enjoy the grotesque displays of testosterone. It’s like a mating call I swear.
Love your blog and I know where your coming from being in the south and working in the building part for many years I know the good ole boy network very well. as far as the bible thumper goes here is some info I don’t normally fill up a comment like this but I’m thinking it might help you.
1. There are few biblical verses that address homosexuality at all, and most of those are not directed at homosexuality per se. Opponents of same-sex marriage routinely cite seven verses in the Christian Bible as condemning homosexuality and calling it a sin. But when taken in context, these lessons speak not against homosexuality itself, but rather against rape, child molestation, bestiality, and other practices that hurt others and compromise a person’s relationship with God.
2. Jesus never said one word against homosexuality. In all of his teachings, Jesus uplifted actions and attitudes of justice, love, humility, mercy, and compassion. He condemned violence, oppression, cold-heartedness, and social injustice. Never once did Jesus refer to what we call homosexuality as a sin.
3. The Bible never mentions or condemns the concept we call same-sex marriage. Although opponents of same-sex marriage claim that lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender unions violate biblical principles, no verses in the Bible explicitly address gay marriage or committed same-sex relationships.
4. Those who claim a “biblical definition of marriage” as a model for today ignore various marital arrangements in the Bible that would be illegal or condemned today. The Bible is filled with stories of polygamy and husbands taking concubines. In accordance with the culture and laws of the past, women were often treated like property that could be traded or sold into marriage. Today we understand that these examples of marriage reflect the cultural practices of the time rather than a spiritual model for today
info came from http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/04/four_things_marriage.html