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How do I come out as trans at a new job?
I have just recently come out as transgender to my social circle.
However, I started a new job just this past week, and all my documentation is in my deadname as I haven’t started the paperwork process. We’re also all remote right now. I also don’t have much of a feel yet for how the place and my co-workers will take it. (We create and maintain websites for lawyers, if that helps people with the advice.) It’s a small company (about 25 people) and not much formal HR process - all the paperwork is outsourced. They talk about respect for others, but my experience isn’t there to see it yet. (My three direct co-workers and my supervisor have all be very nice, and very helpful, but that’s workplace.)
I haven’t told anyone at work yet. Eventually, though, there will be a return to the office, and hormone effects, and it won’t be avoidable. I’m hoping to get ahead of it and be myself 24x7 instead of spending 40 hours a week cosplaying.
Any ideas would be helpful. Thank you.
I need a (trenchcoat) belt.
I have a trenchcoat that, due to a long line of increasingly stupid situations, I no longer have the belt for. Searching for replacements has been ridiculous, as I can find many of them for "women's trench coat belt replacement", but nearly nothing for men (much less a big man), My wife tells me going out in it without the belt looks "ridiculous", so I can't wear this coat and it hangs in the closet.
I get things like "use a scarf for a sassy offset" but, uh, that's not me.
What can I do with this?
Dealing with a 'team-building event' that involves drinking I don't do.
My department at work is setting up a 'team-building event'. The ones in the past have included a cooking class, a game night, a drink-and-paint, and karaoke. The one they're revving up for now is a booze cruise. The problem? 1) I don't drink alcohol and 2) I have an arthritic knee and am considered lightly disabled.
How do I find a lost person?
My fiancee's mother moved to Puerto Rico a number of years ago, and in a move lost all her mother's contact information. Google hasn't really helped, because her mother has a very common name. I need to find her, and I really don't have a good idea where to start looking.
This language is not what I think it is, but is it art?
What is a good resource for understanding art theory - book recommendations, websites, things of that nature. I keep finding myself realizing that there's uses of language in art that doesn't match up with what I think it should be.
Smaller than an elbow...
How do I find out what earbuds don't hurt my ears?
Sometimes you just gotta say...
Thinking about going back to school, but I have some questions about things, and hoping people can help me and answer them. (Information and questions inside.)
I have an issue with a UTI... on a Mac.
My Macs have decided suddenly to merge the information on two kinds of files into a single file listing. As I use separate programs for these, switching back and forth is really not an option, and manually setting things is going to eventually drive me crazy. Help!
Stapler Rentals - back in the saddle
Is there a place I can rent, borrow or otherwise find a way to use a saddle stapler in the Seattle area? They're expensive to purchase, and it seems as if a lot of the copy centers no longer keep them around. I've checked Kinko's, Office Depot and Staples, and they don't have them for rent or use (and it's either the web site or ship-to-store to buy, even if you wanted one.
I know it's a camera angle, but how do I MEASURE it?
How do I measure the angle I hold my camera at to take a picture, so I can take other photos to composite together and have it not look terrible?
Go ahead, rub it in... to hair.
I have managed to reach the age of forty-mumble with no idea how to deal with hair-care products. I shampoo regularly (Head and Shoulders for the dandruff works fine), keep my hair fairly short (but not buzzcut, because my head looks stupid when the hair is too short), and sometimes blow it dry, but all this other stuff - pomade, hair spray, the stuff the salons call 'product' is beyond me. Where can I go to find out about how to use them?
Router recommendations for more power.
Comcast gave us a router when we subscribed. It has issues. But we can replace it! Help me find the best one. (Warning: lots of data below, because I want to answer as many questions as possible off the bat.)
Kill the oil stink
We've just moved, and I'm working on the backlog of laundry. The problem is that one of the hampers apparently was close to the oil furnace of the old house, and now the entire basket smells like oil. How do I get rid of the smell?
Gone gone o form of man, bring me now some Marzipan!
Looking for recipes for marzipan. Actually making it, not things to do with it.
Help a wine-challenged fellow give a good dinner.
How do you find out what kind of wine goes with what kind of meal?
Maple Leaf Guitar Rag?
Many years ago, late one night in Philadelphia, I heard a cover of the Maple Leaf Rag that stunned me. I never found the artist, nor have I ever heard it again. I'm hoping the hivemind can help. It started out the traditional piano version, and then there was a pause... and it turned into a guitar rock version. I heard it on WMMR at about 1:30 AM in the late 1980s. HAs anyone ever heard of anything like it, and if so, who was the artist?
My beard is flaky... in the not-good way.
I've recently decided that, at the age of 40, I'm old enough to deal with facial hair. I now have a pretty reasonable goatee, but now I've run into a new trouble: dandruff of the chin.
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