Coming Out In Corporate America Gays are making huge strides everywhere,...

Business Week ^ | DECEMBER 15, 2003

[narses]

Gays are making huge strides everywhere, but in the executive suite.

One chilly fall day last year, Gary Osifchin trooped into a mandatory training session at S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. The privately held company, located in Racine, Wis., which was voted 2003's "all-American city" by the National Civic League, manufactures Raid insecticide and Glade air fresheners. It's the kind of place where factory workers ride to the assembly line on Harley-Davidsons, dine on local bratwurst, and chase it down with Milwaukee beer.

[narses]

Will they do the same for "domestic partners"?

[Romulus]

the owner of my company, a lifelong, Tridentine Rite Catholic.

Now this is what I call Breaking News!

Could it be that Sinkspur's bitter disdain for the Tridentine rite is nothing more than a projection of labor relations grievances?

The mind boggles. ;-)

[I got the rope]

I wonder...when is it appropriate to talk about sex in the workplace. Why would the topic even come up?

[Romulus]

Nope.

[sinkspur]

Could it be that Sinkspur's bitter disdain for the Tridentine rite is nothing more than a projection of labor relations grievances?

I don't have a "bitter disdain" for the Tridentine Rite.

I'm paid very well. And, as I said in a later post, he actually belongs to the SSPX.

He could be a Rastafarian; as long as he pays me as well as he does, I don't care.

[narses]

An interesting idea. I'll bet their Christmas Party would be worth the price of admission.

[narses]

"He could be a Rastafarian; as long as he pays me as well as he does, I don't care."

Would you work for Planned Parenthood?

[sinkspur]

I have a job.

Also, in response to a previous post of yours, we don't have a Christmas Party.

[WackyKat]

Insofar as it concerns homosexuality, you bet I do

[narses]

You didn't answer the question though. Silence ill becomes a cleric "deacon".

[narses]

So to be Catholic is to be a BIGOT according to "WackyKat"!

My free exercise of religion makes me a bigot. What does that make you?

[WackyKat]

But I expect this debate will lead to complaints about how our insurance premiums are helping to pay for meds for gays who have AIDS and really deserve to die because they might have done something wrong to catch it etc. etc. Excuse me if this hasn't come up already. I haven't read all the posts.

Read Narses posts. You'll find those disgusting attitudes there.

[Romulus]

So? I could [not]care less.

Well you should, because employee benefits cost money. The fact that many companies discriminate against singles by extending health benefits to marrieds is at least excusable with the argument that marriage serves a social purpose (and it's this that keeps me from complaining too loudly about the disproportionate way premiums -- and tax burdens -- are distributed). But since the gay lifestyle actually imposes additional stress on the social fabric, while contributing nothing, there's no justification for its subsidy.

[narses]

Read the article. Sensitivity training is part of the modern workplace. DEVIANT sex is OK to talk about in the workplace, even mandatory!

[narses]

"You'll find those disgusting attitudes there."

Personal attacks are against the rules. Next time I hit the abuse button.

[sinkspur]

The fact that many companies discriminate against singles by extending health benefits to marrieds is at least excusable with the argument that marriage serves a social purpose (and it's this that keeps me from complaining too loudly about the disproportionate way premiums

What a tight-ass! Most companies cover families as a way to keep the employee happy. And, BTW, I pay extra to cover my wife.

[Cronos]

AlQ, come and get us, we really ARE becoming the BigSatan.

[Dolphy]

I wasn't jabbing pregnant women, just pointing out that both good and bad choices lead to medical costs. As far as I know, most health insurance premiums are calculated on things like location, age, gender and loss experience. Personal information like weight, smoking, sexual morals, etc. is not part of the equation.

Why does one partner get benefits for the couple? I would think both are working.

Many companies don't provide health insurance. And many married working couples pick whichever coverage they feel best or most cost effective, they don't maintain separate coverage. Domestic partner coverage doesn't mean that one of the partners isn't working. In any event, domestic partnership benefits are offered to help the employer keep employees, not visa versa.

[longfellow]

YEAH THEY DID A GREAT JOB TAKING OVER AND DESTROYING THE COMPANY AND BUSINESS I WAS IN.

[narses]

"What a tight-ass!"

What a phrase for a "deacon" to use. I assume you meant it in a loving, fraternal fashion, but really!