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.

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.

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 ...