Wednesday, August 20, 2008

possible transgender.

There are several questions about my company / job / “work situation” that are often swimming around my head which I haven’t gotten around to asking anyone, or find it inappropriate to ask out loud, from the mundane (Is our office’s only bathroom unisex or is there a men’s bathroom of which I am unaware?) to the obvious (Am I underpaid?). Some are skill-related questions (There’s a difference between “specialty” and “speciality”?!) which I should be able to answer on my own. But the biggest question of all… Is the person who sits two cubes from me a man or a woman??? I have been wondering about this since day 1 and plan to find out when I hear someone refer to this person as “he” or “she” in English, since there is no delineation in Chinese. I’ve collected evidence over the past two months, and just when I’m sure this person’s a woman, new findings arise that make me think “man for sure.”

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