M@ Around The World

Out & Equal Workplace Summit On Wednesday, September 13, myself and several co-workers converged on Chicago, IL for the 2006 Out & Equal Workplace Summit . Almost 200 companies sent a combination of over 1700 GLBT employees there in order to share best practices about workplace policies for inclusiveness, learn about trainings and other information about laws etc concerning GLBTs, and in order to network and meet people from all over the world. The summit itself was the 14th - 16th, but the day before (13-SEPT) GE had its own GE GLBT Alliance national meeting. Just trying to get there was half the fun... The trip just to get out to Chicago from Atlanta was half the fun of the trip. Yes, I am being sarcastic... :-) My comrades from Atlanta and I were scheduled to be on a Delta flight to the Midway (MDW) airport in Chicago leaving at 8a. Now having been the one that setup these plans, I figured that we'd have plenty of time to get to our GE meeting (which started a...