Squirrel Cage by Jones Cindi

Author:Jones, Cindi [Jones, Cindi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Amazon
Published: 2012-06-29T07:00:00+00:00

Revelation, part 3

“Ellen, may I talk to you?” I asked her as I entered her office.

“Of course David, what can I do for you?”

Ellen was our Human Resources director.

“Ellen, I would like to look for a position in one of the California facilities.”

“David, I know something is wrong. Do you want to tell me about it?

“Ellen, I’m going through a divorce. It is painful. I will support my family but I am receiving so many pressures from so many sides that I am just not effective here. Do you know what I am saying Ellen? I’m trying to NOT tell you the real problem. I do not want to hurt others.”

I was hoping that Ellen, a non Mormon member might catch on quickly to what I was trying to say… or at least make a false assumption. She did not have to know for certainty my problem. I felt no need to verify rumors. We had known each other some time and had worked in two companies together. We were not close friends but we had run into each other every day for the past five years.

“David, I’m afraid I don’t follow. I know very well that you are having problems of some kind. You have arrived at work troubled for several weeks now. I hate to say it, but there are rumors spreading around,” she offered.

“Rumors of what?” I asked.

“David, they are rumors and I shall not validate them.”

I would later learn that everyone thought that I was gay. Where they got that impression, I shall never know. Perhaps it might be easier to live against a rumor of being gay versus a certainty of being transsexual. I had shown up at work with my face red and swollen for several weeks now, tell tale symptoms of heavy sessions in electrolysis to remove my beard. I just told them that I was having some skin problems related to shaving. It sounded logical to me. My hair had grown longer as well. Long hair was not unusual in the 80’s. If you had, who cared? But David had always been a very clean and well dressed marketing product manager. He was a straight shooter and a “goody goody two shoes.”

Our company was small here when we occupied only one floor in the office building. The company had been purchased by a large computer and instruments company based in Palo Alto. My once company president was now my plant manager in the new organization and he was also an official on the regional leadership of my church. Yes, he was LDS.

“Ellen, I’m facing considerable pressure from my church, I’m sure that they will be excommunicating me. I’m sure that you must realize what that will do to me here in the valley. It will destroy my career. I’ll have to move regardless.”

“Look David, I know that there is substantially more. Do you want to tell me about it? Ellen, please, just let me know what I need to do to look for other positions within the company.

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