Unfortunate, but true. There’s no surer path to career suicide. That’s why you only hear truth on climate change from emeritus professors.
Around 15 years ago in a Fortune 500 company, the chief finance officer took four weeks of leave. Then he, or rather....she returned to the company on a Monday morning....decked out in women’s clothing and having had the full surgery treatment.
The CEO of the company was a former college professor who’d take the company from rock-bottom to the success they enjoyed, and he was 1950’s style management style. It took around 20 minutes on that Monday morning for word to reach his secretary of the finance officer having come back to work after leave....transformed into a woman. It took five minutes to chat with the head of HR and they formatted a firing package in a matter of minutes. There was a short two-minute conversation between the boss and the he-turned-she...and then a guard came to escort the he-turned-she out of the building. He-turned-she wouldn’t accept the offer on the table and took the company to court.
In the end, with lawyers and a court involved....I think the he-turned-she....got around three years of salary. As far as I know...he-turned-she never held another executive position for the rest of his life (he was mid-40s at this point in his life).