sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) (09/22/84)
As if it weren't obvious already from the number of people from here
who contribute to net.motss, BBN and its subsidiaries truly exercise
a non-discriminatory employment policy regarding gay people.
From the BBN (and BBN Communications) Personnel Handbook:
"BBNCC believes that it is a person's contribution to the job that counts
rather than his or her creed, color, sex, or other physical or personal
characteristics that are unrelated to job performance."
This could hardly be construed as "pro-gay" (whatever that means or should
mean.) Rather, it means what it says, and the company and its employees
generally follow through on it: being gay is simply not an issue;
competence is. I do not know much at all about the situation of those
requiring a security clearance, since my job does not require one, but that
is a matter complicated by a third party, the US Government.
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/Steve Dyer
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sdyer@bbncca.ARPAag5@pucc-i (Henry C. Mensch) (09/22/84)
<Oh, no! Not again!>
There seems to be some ambiguity about my original posting
about "Discrimination at the workplace/grad school." I'm not really
concerned about places that are going to ask those sorts of questions
at an interview; in many places that's illegal, and so many employers
won't bother with that kind of stuff.
What I am concerned about is what happens when an employer
finds out that an employee is gay, and then takes inappropriate
action. I would not want to be the subject of such action, and
will try to avoid these situations.
This is where you come in. I suppose that, at this point,
my old article explains what I'm looking for, so you can read that
if you're interested.
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