Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Discrimination at the workplace/grad school: an inquiry Message-ID: <953@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 18:16:20 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.953 Posted: Fri Sep 21 18:16:20 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 21:43:52 EDT References: <485@pucc-i> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 20 As if it weren't obvious already from the number of people from here who contribute to net.motss, BBN and its subsidiaries truly exercise a non-discriminatory employment policy regarding gay people. From the BBN (and BBN Communications) Personnel Handbook: "BBNCC believes that it is a person's contribution to the job that counts rather than his or her creed, color, sex, or other physical or personal characteristics that are unrelated to job performance." This could hardly be construed as "pro-gay" (whatever that means or should mean.) Rather, it means what it says, and the company and its employees generally follow through on it: being gay is simply not an issue; competence is. I do not know much at all about the situation of those requiring a security clearance, since my job does not require one, but that is a matter complicated by a third party, the US Government. -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA