Are you pissed off? I'm pissed off. Vent Thread.

[r00]

$600 for 3 tires.  not cool.

[Static]

Up here, Employment Insurance premiums are, by law, paid by both the business owner and the employee, up to a certain maximum that's actually relatively low, based on your income.  The amount paid is identical for both the business and the employee.  If you make $40,000/year or more, you're probably paying the maximum premium.  However, the business pays nothing extra if they lay off or fire the worker, ever.  The amount you're allowed to receive is based on your income over the past year, up to a maximum that I'm pretty sure is also about $380-ish per week.  But after a year, you're done.  No more EI for you.  If you haven't found a new job, its welfare time.

As well, our maternity, paternity, and disability leave is also handled through EI, so individual businesses never have to deal with it.  Businesses can opt to buy other insurance for their employees to supplement/extend it, as can individuals, but most don't because its too expensive for the amount of benefit given.

That's similar to the UK, only we have National Insurance.  Each pay check will have tax deductions and then an NI deduction which is supposed to go to things like unemployment benefits, illness at work, and government pension (which is laughable if you expect to live off that when you retire).   An employer has to give the same amount as their employee in NI (again, calculated by earnings), but that's as far as their duties to unemployment go.

[kristin]

Work has been a total nightmare. This week especially. Pair that with some outside of work responsibilities, and I'm about ready to drop. Thankfully, it's a long weekend. I'm kicking it off by getting my hair done, wooo.

[r00]

It's another one of those nights where I wonder if I'm the only person in my life that isn't a complete fucking nut-case.

[kristin]

I love those times. Those times when you look around, and realize that everyone you know is a total fucking psycho? Then you start to think that maybe psycho is the norm and YOU'RE the one with the problem.

[Aaron]

For the record, I fucking HATE turkeys. (and the holidays as well)

[r00]

Then you start to think that maybe psycho is the norm and YOU'RE the one with the problem.

haha yes!

[r00]

For the record, I fucking HATE turkeys. (and the holidays as well)

I'm opposite.  I love turkey season and the holidays.  For one, I love cooking turkey and all the leftover recipes for the days following.  Second, it is the time of year where I usually manage to get 2 to 3 weeks off work between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Can't fucking wait for a break.

[rynne]

The meat-seller lady at our famers market has been bringing a couple of live turkeys with her the past few weeks to advertise for Thanksgiving orders. She sets up a temporary pen next to her stand. I'm all for knowing that your meat had a face before it got to your plate, but it is a bit weird to be see semi-granola moms haul their kids up to the pen going, "Ooh, look at the turkey!" It's not a zoo; it's dinner.

(More concerning is the fact that she's essentially keeping livestock right next to her cooler of butchered meats.)

[rokken like dokken]

I'm opposite.  I love turkey season and the holidays.  For one, I love cooking turkey and all the leftover recipes for the days following.  Second, it is the time of year where I usually manage to get 2 to 3 weeks off work between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Can't fucking wait for a break.

Sounds like you've earned one, at any rate. 

I was supposed to go up to see the worksite that I've been engineering on for the last year or so today, but I didn't find out until I got to the airstrip ready to board the plane that the airport at the site is iced over and they have nothing to fix it.  I got up at 5am on my day off for pretty much nothing. 

[Aaron]

I'm opposite.  I love turkey season and the holidays.  For one, I love cooking turkey and all the leftover recipes for the days following.  Second, it is the time of year where I usually manage to get 2 to 3 weeks off work between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Can't fucking wait for a break.

I work with the turkeys.(they are dead and frozen when I get them thought.) (I have to rewieght them all. One at a time. And while they aren't that heavy, dealing with large amounts at once, like hundred for one guys order, sucks. And this is the second 100 the dude wants. Next order is 250 turkeys, or so I'm told.)

And working retail has killed what happiness I had. I used to love the holidays, but not really any more. (They won't approve vacation times from he second week of November till the end of December.) And I get xmas off, since the store is closed...

[r00]

Oh yeah.  I forgot you worked retail.  I remember hating the holidays too when I worked retail.  I would only get 1 day off a week from November through the first week of January.  It was total madness and you see the worst of humanity all at once.  8( 

[Aaron]

Ya. Retail for every month other then November and December is fine. During November and December.

And turkeys are a pain in my ass. In fact my arms are sore from how many I tossed around yesterday...

[boom]

Tossing turkeys...sounds vaguely dirty. 

Today's vent: the furnace is broken and since Theo isn't cold he assumed everyone else is fine and told the landlord it could wait till the morning when he comes into town. Now I'm sitting here in thick fleece socks and a sweater freezing my ass off.

[kristin]

For the record, I love turkeys, and I love the holidays.

Vent: despite all of the positive things going on with me, my anxiety is through the roof. I need to get back to yoga.