More updates on the work front...
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So yes, today I had to go in for follow up training at corporate HQ downtown, which was kinda boring but not bad over all, so not much to tell on that front... but guess what I got to do while I was down there? Go on, guess?
During one of our breaks and during the second half of our lunch break, I got snagged by the head of HR for the company. Yes, the same one who I mentioned in my last 2 posts. She pulled me into her office and asked me if anything bad had happened to me at work and if I had been "talking in code" on the phone due to people possibly listening in. After about 10 minutes of convincing her that wasn't the issue, we finally got down to brass tacks. We talked briefly about discrimination in the work place and many of the things she said put me at ease enough to give her some ammo to do more research with.
I told her I was intersexed and asked if she knew what that meant. She didn't, so I gave her a *very* truncated definition of it, and told her that I hide/wear clothes that hide or bind my chest or press it flat, and was trying to learn more about the company's policy regarding things like that, and she looked at me rather empathetically though semi perplexed, and then the perplexion (is that a word?) went away and the empathy remained throughout the rest of: "As far as gender identity and physical conditions like yours go, ALL of that is covered under the umbrella that the company uses for EOE, and if anything like that ever happens, you let me know immediately and I will absolutely drop everything I am doing and get on the front lines for you!" More so, she is going to have the legal department get me even more detailed information about all of this without telling them about me specifically, keeping with the confidentiality of our convo, and send it to me all confidential like, and told me that she's had to deal with gender identity stuff before on a limited basis, but that the cards were pretty much in my favour not only at work but as she understood it, according to local state laws as well.
W.O.W.
That was not what I expected to hear, but OMG am I glad I did hear it! My HR lady rocks! So far (aside from the fact that it's a bank) this job just gets better and better. Having talked with her, I'm no longer worried about wearing actual supportive bras to work or worried if they show through on occasion. Having corporate HR on my side is a good feeling. ^^
So yes, today I had to go in for follow up training at corporate HQ downtown, which was kinda boring but not bad over all, so not much to tell on that front... but guess what I got to do while I was down there? Go on, guess?
During one of our breaks and during the second half of our lunch break, I got snagged by the head of HR for the company. Yes, the same one who I mentioned in my last 2 posts. She pulled me into her office and asked me if anything bad had happened to me at work and if I had been "talking in code" on the phone due to people possibly listening in. After about 10 minutes of convincing her that wasn't the issue, we finally got down to brass tacks. We talked briefly about discrimination in the work place and many of the things she said put me at ease enough to give her some ammo to do more research with.
I told her I was intersexed and asked if she knew what that meant. She didn't, so I gave her a *very* truncated definition of it, and told her that I hide/wear clothes that hide or bind my chest or press it flat, and was trying to learn more about the company's policy regarding things like that, and she looked at me rather empathetically though semi perplexed, and then the perplexion (is that a word?) went away and the empathy remained throughout the rest of: "As far as gender identity and physical conditions like yours go, ALL of that is covered under the umbrella that the company uses for EOE, and if anything like that ever happens, you let me know immediately and I will absolutely drop everything I am doing and get on the front lines for you!" More so, she is going to have the legal department get me even more detailed information about all of this without telling them about me specifically, keeping with the confidentiality of our convo, and send it to me all confidential like, and told me that she's had to deal with gender identity stuff before on a limited basis, but that the cards were pretty much in my favour not only at work but as she understood it, according to local state laws as well.
W.O.W.
That was not what I expected to hear, but OMG am I glad I did hear it! My HR lady rocks! So far (aside from the fact that it's a bank) this job just gets better and better. Having talked with her, I'm no longer worried about wearing actual supportive bras to work or worried if they show through on occasion. Having corporate HR on my side is a good feeling. ^^
