Holy Shit!

[mainegreen]

I just got the best news!

In about two months I was going to face a real issue: my wife and child's health insurance was going to run out. To join them to the company plan would have set me back around 800 a month, and separate insurance on our own would have been around 500 bucks more on top of that a month. No idea how we were going to deal with that.

My boss just pulled me in to his office and told me to shut the door. I did, thinking 'oh dear, what now?'

Good news thats what! As part of my review, coming up in about a month, the company's agreed to pay the tab to add them to the health plan. I'm not allowed to talk about it as I'm the only one getting this, but hooo-damn! Best damn thing they could have given me!

:bounce: :woohoo: :woohoo:

I'm so excited I'm shaking.

[bicentennial_baby]

1. That is so fucking awesome!

:bounce:

Congrats! What a load off of your mind! :D

:pals:

[MrCoffee]

2. That's taxable income...don't forget to report it.

That's awesome news! Congrats!

[DS1]

3. scab

:thumbsup:

[DarkTirade]

4. That's fecking awesome.

:thumbsup:

I can't think of a good smilie to go along with this news, so here's a bunny with a pancake on its head.

[ceile]

5. Wonderful news.

:bounce:

[Rhythm]

6. I am incredibly happy for you, and also incredibly sickened

by the fact that decent healthcare is something so rare and valuable that a working American citizen gets excited enough to "shake" over it. It shouldn't have to be that way. It's like watching someone shake with excitement over a rice allotment, or the right to cast a vote. :hug:

Goddamn the selfish assholes who care more about billionaires than about saving lives. :(

[mainegreen]

11. I know. Sad, isn't it?

Still, we'd been facing basically an onrushing financial Mack Truck, and it seems to have magically taken the off ramp.

[Rhythm]

12. I know that feeling.

Huge congrats to you and yours. :hug:

[suninvited]

7. Fantastic !!

Great company you must work for.

[fight4my3sons]

8. Hooray!

:bounce: :bounce:

[Gormy Cuss]

9. Good news for you

but it sucks that the company can't extend that benefit openly and honestly to other eligible employees. It wasn't that long ago that employer-provided health care benefits included "family plans" for either no excess or only nominal premium over individual plans.

BTW, at one of my former employers the management cut a confidential "special deal" on child care subsidies for one employee, but in distributing the decision to others in the know, the senior manager sent a company-wide email. Within six months there was a new policy on child care subsidies. }(

[Midlodemocrat]

10. That is wonderful news!