Lbgt Employees More Likely To Leave Their Jobs.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/lgbt-employees-who-feel-unable-to-come-out-at-work-more-likely-to-leave-their-jobs--and-cost-business-millions-10016065.html

If they find it is so difficult for them to 'come out' then perhaps they are better leaving and thus making a job available for someone who really needs a job?

[Zacs-Master]

How do you equate being L,B, G or T as not needing a job?

[Old_Geezer]

Oh Gawd, not another new acronym/abbreviation to have to remember.

[joeluke]

I agonised long and hard before finally coming out at work........


.......but since I've confessed to being a Spurs supporter my colleagues have by and large treated me with respect

[Zacs-Master]

I seethe OP hasn't tried to justify their statement.

[DTCwordfan]

The OP is just out to needle JTH, Zacs....bloody hogwash in my book.

[joeluke]

Such employees need to find a backbone and a thicker skin, knuckle down and get on with their jobs

[Zacs-Master]

Disgraceful

[boxtops]

I don't see why they need to come out, what has their sexuality got to do with their ability to do their jobs? I don't go about at work proclaiming that I'm heterosexual, the office colleagues don't need to know anything about my personal life.

[jackthehat]

With all due respect, anyone at work who has talked about their (until very recently) wife/husband has already 'come out' as heterosexual.

It becomes a little mentally exhausting trying not to 'out' yourself by using pronouns that give the game away if you are working in an environment which doesn't seem to lend itself to inclusivity.

Not all work envionments are office or desk based.

[boxtops]

I see your point, jack - I guess I don't talk much about home life at work, but that's by the way. Must be hard if you work in an unforgiving environment, I can understand that.

[Zacs-Master]

We're all skirting around the fact that AOG has said that LGBT people don't really need job. AOG, we're all still waiting......

[boxtops]

You're right, zacs. Who's to say that anybody needs a job less than the next person?

[DTCwordfan]

Conspicuous by his absence, I would surmise, Zacs.

[sp1814]

AOG

You wrote:

"If they find it is so difficult for them to 'come out' then perhaps they are better leaving and thus making a job available for someone who really needs a job?"

That's exactly what the article states.

But it seems it seems you've reached an incorrect conclusion, because you wrote:

[i]making a job available for someone who really needs a job?"[i]

It appears that you conclude that these people aren't leaving for a position in another company. That they're simply resigning to claim benefits.

Is that right?

[Zacs-Master]

Again, disgraceful. If you post a 'question' surely you should have the grace to answer it. (?)

[douglas9401]

Such a busy sett.

[jourdain2]

Don't know what this is about, really. Had to find out what Lbgt meant and immediately felt tired and switched off. (This is from one who has friends whose sexuality is their concern.)

[Orderlimit]

^ i think they have their flag aswell

[Orderlimit]

*own flag

[anotheoldgit]

I don't know if the moderators had a day off yesterday, but if they hadn't I can't understand why they did not stop the usual suspects from turning this thread into a personal attack once again against myself.

/// How do you equate being L,B, G or T as not needing a job? ///

I never said that they did not need a job, I meerly pointed out that if they found their working environment uncomfortable why not leave and make way for someone who needs a job?

/// The OP is just out to needle JTH, Zacs. ///

Totally intended to cause ill-feeling between other ABers.

/// We're all skirting around the fact that AOG has said that LGBT people don't really need job. AOG, we're all still waiting...... ///

More goading from this person, when in fact I have never said that LGBT people do not need a job.

/// Conspicuous by his absence, I would surmise, Zacs. ///

More aggressive confrontation, does this person not realise that one has other things to do than stay on-line 24/7.

/// It appears that you conclude that these people aren't leaving for a position in another company. That they're simply resigning to claim
benefits. ///

Yet one more false interpretation of what I actually said, where have I said they're simply resigning to claim benefits?

/// Again, disgraceful. If you post a 'question' surely you should have the grace to answer it. (?) ///

Even more goading from this person, so as to create ill feeling, this person may stay on this site until 19.11 on a Sunday evening, but others have other much more important things to do.

If you are out their moderators perhaps you can see what some on this site are really trying to do.