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Hey Pandas, Do You Or Your Friends Have An Interesting Coming Out Story?
I came out at sixteen and got kicked out of the house for it. Didn’t last a day before they cried and asked me to come back, but my relationship with them is never the same. I came back after a week, and since then never felt like that part of my life has to be open and known to them. It was such a relief and anticlimactic when I came out in a classroom, that I thought it would feel the same when I finally did to people closer to me. In the decade following, I still struggle with understanding myself and my orientation but it’s no longer of utmost importance. Everything connects with each other. By simply living my life, reflecting sometimes, interacting with others, relishing in my solitude it’s getting a bit more clear. Kindness is beautiful. Confidence and passionate are sexy. Humor is cute. Any gender, any person can have these qualities. I have been attracted to females, males, and trans women and men. I have dated, loved, broken some hearts, and gotten mine’s broken in the last decade. Regardless of your orientation, life and relationships are sometimes hard/tedious/demands effort.
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TIL that the firm Cantor Fitzgerald lost 658 employees on 9/11. The CEO, who was taking his child to school that day, later distributed $180 million to the families and offered jobs to all children of the victims. 57 of those children were employed by Cantor Fitzgerald as of 2016.
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15 years ago, I worked for a company in Germany that was bought by a large US company. One of the first actions was a mandatory HR meeting. They used their US power point deck and guided us through the rules & regulations although directed by our local HR team to not do that: Here are some of the highlights: We are not allowed to accept tickets for the Super Bowl. Utterly confusion - 90% of the people had never heard of the Super Bowl... a discussion about why we would want to watch that anyways, started. We are not allowed to have relationship with anybody from a supplier or within the company. Uproar in the room: This is against the German constitution - what you do in your free time is non of their business. The discussion gets heated, everybody is discussing. The Americans on the line are very confused why.... The head of QA finally gets up and shouts "If I love that woman, nobody will prevent me from dating her". People signed the sheet that they participated and read and understood the presentation with "with reservations" People start discussing where to sign up for legal expenses insurance. HR refrained from that day from having mandatory global HR meetings. Management tried a couple of other stuff - at will employment (against the law - everybody has a contract), cutting vacation (against the law), canceling bank holidays (against the law). Make people work on vacation days (guess what, against the law) and a couple more. It was a prime example of cultural ignorance and incredible funny...Show All 3 Upvotes
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Hey Pandas, Do You Or Your Friends Have An Interesting Coming Out Story?
I came out at sixteen and got kicked out of the house for it. Didn’t last a day before they cried and asked me to come back, but my relationship with them is never the same. I came back after a week, and since then never felt like that part of my life has to be open and known to them. It was such a relief and anticlimactic when I came out in a classroom, that I thought it would feel the same when I finally did to people closer to me. In the decade following, I still struggle with understanding myself and my orientation but it’s no longer of utmost importance. Everything connects with each other. By simply living my life, reflecting sometimes, interacting with others, relishing in my solitude it’s getting a bit more clear. Kindness is beautiful. Confidence and passionate are sexy. Humor is cute. Any gender, any person can have these qualities. I have been attracted to females, males, and trans women and men. I have dated, loved, broken some hearts, and gotten mine’s broken in the last decade. Regardless of your orientation, life and relationships are sometimes hard/tedious/demands effort.Today-I-Learned-Interesting-Facts
TIL that the firm Cantor Fitzgerald lost 658 employees on 9/11. The CEO, who was taking his child to school that day, later distributed $180 million to the families and offered jobs to all children of the victims. 57 of those children were employed by Cantor Fitzgerald as of 2016. Amy Dodds • upvoted 3 items 3 weeks ago
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15 years ago, I worked for a company in Germany that was bought by a large US company. One of the first actions was a mandatory HR meeting. They used their US power point deck and guided us through the rules & regulations although directed by our local HR team to not do that: Here are some of the highlights: We are not allowed to accept tickets for the Super Bowl. Utterly confusion - 90% of the people had never heard of the Super Bowl... a discussion about why we would want to watch that anyways, started. We are not allowed to have relationship with anybody from a supplier or within the company. Uproar in the room: This is against the German constitution - what you do in your free time is non of their business. The discussion gets heated, everybody is discussing. The Americans on the line are very confused why.... The head of QA finally gets up and shouts "If I love that woman, nobody will prevent me from dating her". People signed the sheet that they participated and read and understood the presentation with "with reservations" People start discussing where to sign up for legal expenses insurance. HR refrained from that day from having mandatory global HR meetings. Management tried a couple of other stuff - at will employment (against the law - everybody has a contract), cutting vacation (against the law), canceling bank holidays (against the law). Make people work on vacation days (guess what, against the law) and a couple more. It was a prime example of cultural ignorance and incredible funny... Amy Dodds • upvoted 3 items 1 month ago
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