This kind of stuff is rampant in all sorts of ways. For example, tech companies regularly discriminate against employees if they think that some customer, vendo

This kind of stuff is rampant in all sorts of ways. For example, tech companies regularly discriminate against employees if they think that some customer, vendor, etc would object to the employee and possibly threaten to take their business somewhere else. It results in weird shit like not hiring people from certain countries, competitors, or just people with an alternative lifestyle. Firing for being 'out of the closet' in one way or another also happens, but of course is always covered up with some other excuse (part of what HR is really for).