MizSuz
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ORIGINAL: MHOO314 My picture is posted and has been for over a year and I work for one of the most conservative companies still---last year I shared I was Wiccan and I am still there--I think at times we are too afraid-- after all, My question would be, well Mr Employer, you found Me on such and such a site under a screen name----what were YOU doing out there? smiles--- Being outted at work can be a total pain in the ass. Someone at work got hold of my website while I was on vacation and the entire building went nuts. My site was getting 1000 hits a day from my office building. When I returned from vacation I got reprimanded simply because they assumed that I was soliciting for clients at work since it was a pro site and word got out (I wasn't). I didn't bother to tell them that there is a woman in the midwest who has made harassing me her hobby for the last few years, emailing and calling anybody who would listen to her, and for all I knew it could have been her who did it. Once it got out it was never allowed to die. I was smeared across industry message boards, people from the internet took it upon themself to email the owners of the company, the CEO, the VP of HR, my boss (I worked for an exec). My company's policy was 'as long as it's not at work it's her business' but I never got a promotion after that. I got more responsibility and more money (they were very generous with the raises), but they wouldnt officially promote me. Three years after being outted I had to leave because I realized I was never going to go anywhere at that job because of this outting. Now I'm starting all over again in a new job (and it's going very well). I've never been 'in' - not to anybody. I do, however, have a reasonable sense of appropriate and inappropriate conduct in the work place and I do NOT date or see people I work with (old Italian saying - don't get your bread and your meat from the same store). Didn't stop the BS from flying once word got out, though. I still put my pics on the internet but I took a good bit of the website down. With the current political climate, and since I haven't considered taking a new client in a number of years anyway, it's probably a good thing I did. I have no interest in being the poster child for fighting the current administration.
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