OBP Disclosure

Another one bites the dust …

OBP (Other Business Partner, though personally I liked Sera’s definition of it … “Oriental bodywork practioner“) finally got the disclosure speech today … totally at Shaft’s insistence too … so he gets most of the credit for its occurrence. 🙂

You see … OBP and I were having what Shaft calls … “vagina conflict” … we were being bitchy to one another since before she left for a short vacation last Thursday. Of course, it was entirely her fault (we’ll wait to see if Shaft weighs in on that one … seriously, it was !!) … sometimes she forgets … I’m one of the two phreaking bosses !! 🙂

Anyways … I planned on talking with her Tuesday first thing … well she didn’t roll in until almost noon … and then as I was quick to learn … we were apparently still feuding … so we didn’t talk at all really for the rest of the day … gawd juvenile behavior is such fun !!

Then I was going to talk with her yesterday … but Shaft was out on the road … doing the housecall thing … and I was in my avoidance routine … really not wanting to do a disclosure … convincing myself it would be better if I did it when Shaft was around so she could go to him if she freaked out … so I didn’t even go to talk with her until about 6:00 p.m. as she was leaving the office for the day … so it had to wait another day.

Which was today … I started the day with 4 hours of electrolysis and then went home to check on my dog and then met Shaft, OBP, and Summer Intern at Pizza Hut for the Hut Hog Buffet … yum yum … lol

We got back to the office and Shaft was like … “talk to her now dude … I’m going to send her into your office” … so I picked up the phone and made a couple of phone calls … then sat down and thought about what I’d say this time … Shaft came back in my office and said “NOW” … so I went and got her and started the talk.

Now … what we’ve been feuding about is that Shaft and I have been talking with another attorney to come in and sort of replace me (come on … seriously … like I can be replaced ?? hehe) … and she’s all bitchy about that possibility … even though it’s in the mere exploratory stages now and she’s not a voting partner (but we always ask and consider her opinions on significant decisions) … I was unfortunately the recipient of her attitude. So though I wanted to talk about me … as I always do … we spent the first hour talking about this whole new attorney thing, why we are thinking about it … why it makes business sense while I’m gone on my opening discussed extended vacation and again that I might not come back (also openly acknowledged) … anyways … it provided a good entry an hour or so later to give the disclosure speech … which I did …

Went with the normal medical approach … I’m been diagnosed as suffering from a condition called gender identity disorder, also known as transsexualism, more commonly associated with the condition people who have sex change operations have … I think it’s an accurate diagnosis … a brief explanation of what it feels like, what I’ve done as part of the evaluation of the diagnosis, some personal feelings of mine about it … rattled off my options … and then … said this whole sabbatical thing is my Option 1 plan … blah … blah … blah.

And you know what … she was still focused on this new attorney issue. My transsexualism … wasn’t really of any interest to her. Cool. 🙂 She had no questions, offered no comments, and went back to talking about the new attorney thing. Hilarious !! I’m not sure she was even listening to what I was saying !! 🙂

Yeah, I’m sure she’ll need time to let it soak in, but after all is said and done … I don’t think she gives a rip one way of the other. Which is kewl, ’cause now … we can talk about it a little more openly in the office !! 🙂

How do I rate this disclosure … totally, phreaking weird and categorized as a non-event. 🙂