Have you ever come across discrimination of being a gay in your career?

leiraymond

i think so, except for fashion industry

jjevvann

i know that being in the legal fraternity - being gay is career suicide.. or being gay and being out. at least thats because i am here in south east asia.

enviouseupho

Never experienced any discrimination towards me, but I've seen co-workers go through it in my short career as a teacher. While I was co-teaching at a private school in Hong Kong last year, A couple of co-workers got fired because our higher up staff found out they had boyfriends. They apparently snooped at our social media; I'm lucky I private my accounts. The program is supposed to last 3 trimesters, and at the start of the second trimester, they told them in a formal letter that they ran out of funding so had to let some co-teachers go, but thats total bs, cause I got a pay raise. After that, I was scared as fuck because I just started seeing someone, and one of the professors saw me kiss my boyfriend when I entered his car late one day… the next day I asked if anything was going to happen to me, and she told me to not worry cause she'll pretend she didn't see anything. :cheers:

But besides that, working back home in Hawaii at restaurants and retail as a college student now... no one really gives a shit so :mb2: except when I worked at a Korean-owned cosmetics store, I had to keep me liking guys a secret cause the managers made homophobic comments ...

hw597

London here . IT (on the business side)

In my experience it tends to be a subtle thing. Not so much discrimination as much as limiting the cards you have to climb the corporate ladder.

For me personally I don't love "boy's club" atmosphere's. I have definitely seen people use male camaradarie to further themselves.

Taking clients to a strip club is not going to be for me. Neither is shooting with the MD. etc. I'm not invited becuase its not my kind of thing and I don't have that "mate" rapport with them. I don't feel offended as I really don't want to go and if I was invited I would be pretty much obligated. They aren't "work" events however missing out on the kind of bonding has a consequence.

I'm not passed on for promotions or anything I just recognise it would be easier if I had that particular type of leverage for networking.

In many ways its more down to personality that sexuality.

hw597

@enviouseupho:

While I was co-teaching at a private school in Hong Kong last year, A couple of co-workers got fired because our higher up staff found out they had boyfriends. They apparently snooped at our social media; I'm lucky I private my accounts. The program is supposed to last 3 trimesters, and at the start of the second trimester, they told them in a formal letter that they ran out of funding so had to let some co-teachers go, but thats total bs, cause I got a pay raise. After that, I was scared as fuck because I just started seeing someone, and one of the professors saw me kiss my boyfriend when I entered his car late one day… the next day I asked if anything was going to happen to me, and she told me to not worry cause she'll pretend she didn't see anything. :cheers:

Shocking! I always imagined that teaching would be one of the more gay friendly career paths. Particularly because so many guy's I know tend to head in that area.

gaypraha2

I can report the total opposite of this. I did get a cool job BECAUSE I was a fag. the CEO was gay and I had one interview with him then an interview with the technical director. he preferred another guy to me but the CEO said : no way, I want him.. and so I got the job. there were about 50 guys who applied. So being a fag can be an advantage. Depends where you live.