Jun 04, 2008 10:08 PM GMT
I had my annual performance evaluation at work this week. I did very well as I expected to and there were no surprises. I love my job and like my boss a lot. We have very open lines of communication and throughout the year we keep tabs on the good, bad and ugly regarding expectations and goal attainment, so most things are on the up and up. I hope my staff would say the same about me, but I struggle, lol.
I am writing because he gave me the highest mark in a section titled ‘Integrity & trustworthiness’. While he was talking about very nice things that occurred in our professional environment over the past year, I was troubled by the fact that he doesn’t know that I am gay and would be horribly put-off by it. He is a fundamentalist Christian (who maintains a blog he doesn’t know half of his staff reads, lol), and so clearly I am not exactly the embodiment of ‘Integrity & Trustworthiness’ he was describing. I do fit the bill pretty much as far as work goes, and he recently became aware that I am a non-believer, but the orientation would be hard for him to swallow.
It is a matter of privacy, self-preservation and where I’m at in my own coming-out journey that no one at work knows I am gay by my own confession. If someone thinks they know, I am not aware of the suspicion. Anyway, this bothered me and I thought I’d post for some feedback.
I am writing because he gave me the highest mark in a section titled ‘Integrity & trustworthiness’. While he was talking about very nice things that occurred in our professional environment over the past year, I was troubled by the fact that he doesn’t know that I am gay and would be horribly put-off by it. He is a fundamentalist Christian (who maintains a blog he doesn’t know half of his staff reads, lol), and so clearly I am not exactly the embodiment of ‘Integrity & Trustworthiness’ he was describing. I do fit the bill pretty much as far as work goes, and he recently became aware that I am a non-believer, but the orientation would be hard for him to swallow.
It is a matter of privacy, self-preservation and where I’m at in my own coming-out journey that no one at work knows I am gay by my own confession. If someone thinks they know, I am not aware of the suspicion. Anyway, this bothered me and I thought I’d post for some feedback.
