So the HR lady realized that they had made a mistake with the $89 for Jen's insurance and dropped it down to $40something (the difference between the $125 family plan and the $80something employee plus child plan) post-tax. And she made sure I knew about the Queer Tax, which I did. (By the way, the Queer Tax in this case amounts to an extra $117 ( Read more... )

I am so effing pissed right now. It's a good thing it's Saturday because I could seriously strangle an HR person right now. (No offense to anyone working in HR ( Read more... )

CONGRATULATIONS, KATE AND TRISH!!!

I am so proud of you guys. xoxoxoxo

Heck yeah, kids. Three down, forty-seven to go.

Woo and hoo, as Corey Jo would say.

So my agency, the one I just started working for, just merged with another, bigger agency. Well, technically it hasn't happened yet (July 1), but it's a done deal. Today I had to sit through 2.5 hours of merge/benefits information and fill out all of the same new hire forms I filled out a month ago. Good times, good times ( Read more... )

tell me about your most recent interaction with homophobia and how you dealt with it.

and then give yourself a hug, because i wish i could. i think you are amazing.Awwh, I love you too! Big big love ( Read more... )

So part of my job that ISN'T mindless and boring and unskilled is the planning and leading of trainings for university staff people on LGBT issues - mainly student staff but not entirely. I don't always agree that standard "diversity trainings" are terribly helpful and sometimes they do little more than make people feel defensive, so it's kind of ( Read more... )

Oh my gosh, I can hardly stop laughing right now at the irony of it all ( Read more... )