Info needed on Salt Lake City (gay friendly?!?!)

mickeysaver

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As some of you know from previous posts, my honey travels a lot with her job. She works for a medical software company and trains doctors and their staffs on how to use the electronic medical records part of the company's program. Well, in 2008, she is going to be spending a lot of time in Salt Lake City, UT. She was ok with going out there until she learned through a coworker that the site had made a couple of special requests about the people sent out to their office. The requests.....#1 don't send any gays and #2 don't send any black people. :sad2:

So, now she's ticked off and a bit spooked about spending so much time in Mormonland. The company she works for knows that she is gay. The company that she works for is very much an equal opportunity employer. While the company founders are a straight white family, the employees are all races and there are a large number of gay people there too, including her boss!

The first part of the software deployment is always the billing software side of things. Her company sent out a gay white man and 3 black women for that deployment. :lmao: To rub their noses in it a little further, they are sending out my honey, a very queenie gay male, and two straight white girls with close gay family ties. :rotfl2:

Well, I laugh about it, but I also worry about Gabby. She really doesn't handle this sort of bigotry well. She is very upset with having to deal with it at all and the site has a real horse's butt for an office manager. They have totally unrealistic expectations about the ability of 4 people to train 45 doctors and their staffs on how to use the EMR software. They want one-on-one training....not gonna happen with roughly 21 days of training spaced over roughly 5 weeks, with lots of ground to cover!

So, I am begging for help from those of you in the know about Salt Lake City. Are there any gay friendly gyms? Are there any gay friendly restaurants? Normally, she doesn't worry so much, but with the Mormon thing being so huge out there, she's pretty spooked. TIA for any assistance that you can provide. Maggie
 
the site had made a couple of special requests about the people sent out to their office. The requests.....#1 don't send any gays and #2 don't send any black people. :sad2:

I don't know anything about salt lake city, but I just had to comment on the above quote.
I just am shocked that someone has the nerve to make such a special request, I mean wth is wrong with people????? :mad:
 
I believe the problem in this instance is religion based. I just really wish that her boss was sending a different team to this site. Maggie
 
I don't know anything about Salt Lake city, but, my DW made an important observation....

Just because there is someone in charge who made such a crazy request, doesn't mean that everyone she'll meet in the office and the area will be bigoted.

She can always come talk to us, regardless of where she is physically--probably knows this though. :)
 

I believe the problem in this instance is religion based. I just really wish that her boss was sending a different team to this site. Maggie

are there no Black mormons? I believe there must be. I just looked at a website about mormon religion and there is a black family pictured.
to ask for no blacks or gays is just so darn offensive i don't know what else to say.
 
Just because there is someone in charge who made such a crazy request, doesn't mean that everyone she'll meet in the office and the area will be bigoted.
thats a good point, and hopefully it will be the case.
 
I realized reading back that my post sounds like I am directing to mickeysaver, cuz i quoted her.........but i am venting out loud in general about that company, I can't stop thinking about this. I just have never heard of a company requesting something like that. I am just mind boggled, or maybe i live in la la land here!! LOL
 
I realized reading back that my post sounds like I am directing to mickeysaver, cuz i quoted her.........but i am venting out loud in general about that company, I can't stop thinking about this. I just have never heard of a company requesting something like that. I am just mind boggled, or maybe i live in la la land here!! LOL

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it would be illegal around here.
 
Gabby was able to find gaySLC dot com and found a really nice fella named Gambit that helped her find the safer/friendlier places to be. So, she and her team will be taking him out for coffee while they are there. She has found a gym and some restaurants too.

Thankfully, she is starting to feel a bit better about going now. Maggie
 















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