My experience, having worked in Manhattan for a long time, is employees don’t care what other employees do in their off-hours as long as they’re not committing crimes. (The state of one’s soul is a separate matter.) In fact, outside of “how was your weekend?” chatter, personal life comes up intermittently.
The gays with whom I worked were focused on work. Same with the straight people. The business of businesses is…business.
I bet many employees - straight and not - are relieved they aren’t being “forced” to mix business with bedroom this year.
pride fatigue
They should’ve NEVER started it, in the first place.
General Dynamics aggressively hired lesbians while I was there. I believe the reason was they could easily prove they were being “diverse” as you could spot the lesbians from down the hall. They were visually outspoken. It would not have had the same effect to hire gay men who dressed and looked like all the other men.
I have never had to work with so many angry, bitter, unhappy women. It was a relief to leave there.
To overcome the visual problem, my final male boss had a large, silver framed photo of his significant other, a Kenny Rogers looking man. As I recall “To the love of my life” was written on the photo. The photo did not face the boss as one might expect with such a photo. Instead, it faced towards his door where everyone could see it. Diversity achieved!
I just learned last night from my kid who works at Johnson & Johnson that they ended their drag queen performances for sp-called Pride Week. I had no idea that that was even happening. It’s extraordinary the power and money that the gay lobby has. God bless DJT. Make America “Straight” Again.
There are a couple very gay guys at my job. They are both friendly and very competent. Neither flies the gay flag at work which I appreciate.
They removed the word Gay to Hide what’s really going on , recruitment
Yes, what you describe seems to be the norm nowadays.
Brings to mind the old expression “…mind your business, and leave mine alone…”.
IMHO, militancy is an instant turnoff for most Americans, whatever the issue might be, gays, enviro, immigration, or the latest fad “Free Palestine”.
Nobody really cares what someone else does with their private time, and business is still business.
Focus on the task at hand and get on with it.
I worked in NYC for years, and the lesbian woman who occupied the cubicle adjacent to mine had up a picture of Vladimir Lenin! Almost all chatter was political with co workers, and whenever they tried to drag me in to it, I’d say, sorry, I don’t talk politics at the workplace. Until the last week after I’d given notice. I came out as a Trump supporter and got into a shouting match with that vicious lesbian. The pension and benefits were too good to leave sooner, but the last several years there were hell.
No pride month at Amazon.com. They always had banners for the latest woke crap.
Kind of a demeaning article towards Robby Starbuck.
In 2022 I decided that I would buy anything that I needed that Academy Sports sold because I had never heard of them being woke. I already bought my guns and ammo there. I signed up on their website and got some good deals on clearance items. Then, out of nowhere, they sent me an email with this title on June 1st:
“Celebrate with Pride! – starting at $25”
I cancelled my account and I have not been back in the store. They lost a lot of money with that stupid email. Idiots.
But did they terminate the employees who got them involved with DEI?
It’s all just a virtue signal anyway
TripAdvisor displays the silly pride flag - I deleted their App yesterday.
Practitioners of the other six deadly sins must feel neglected, they don’t even get a day, much less an entire month.