Benefits of a recession

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

It's been nice being home.

I hate not working but I haven't been unemployed ever so it was weird and nice being home this week.

I thought you worked for the government according to some other thread. They never lay off anybody? We had one guy take sick leave for 8 months and his job was still here and unfilled when he came back.

[Hack&Lube]

I'm kind of screwed as this is the first time I'm actually looking for a "real" job and early foothold in career type work since graduating and just world travelling or doing part time work here and there for the past 1-2 years.

In addition to having a non-practical degree, I have no idea what to do.

[VladtheImpaler]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

I'm kind of screwed as this is the first time I'm actually looking for a "real" job and early foothold in career type work since graduating and just world travelling or doing part time work here and there for the past 1-2 years.

In addition to having a non-practical degree, I have no idea what to do.

Go back to school and get that law degree - you can live off government cheese, and by the time you graduate, the boom will be firing up again.

[flamesfever]

Originally Posted by fotze

Ya but you geologists draw pretty pictures all day with your pencil crayons though.

I've always thought that the tremendous boom in the oil and gas business in the 60's was related to the invention of the coloured felt markers.

[Wookie]

Originally Posted by fotze

I agree with most of this. I haven't really seen any savings. At least the evil oil companies appear to be passing on most of the savings from wookie's chart.

Groceries seem to have gone up, why does no one call for the feeds to investigate collusion on thoise prices. I haven't seen a difference in flights (aside from the usual seat sales that have always popped up from time to time). Flights should be immediately impacted the greates by lower fuel costs. Pretty much everything should be lower due to the lower fuel costs.

I think businesses are trying to hang on to the last bit. Just like those oil tankers waiting at sea. Cut your losses and accept it.

I agree - it's surprising everything hasn't come down. It does take time though. I'm just wondering how long. Gas has helped.

Airlines seem to have just removed the fuel surcharge.

A guy who works in a similar department to me just financed a deal for $100 million. It started about a year ago, the delay has been in getting all the contracts done, signed, legal stuff worked out and our management giving the rate. I asked him if costs have come down at all, nope, not a single change.

[Ironhorse]

My house is going to be in need of new shingles soon. I wonder if the prices will have come down from a couple of years ago, when I was quoted $4K! Too bad the feds will not rebate new roofs...

[mykalberta]

Originally Posted by Wookie

Is that still $.85 worse than still $1.40?

The 0.85 has nothing to do with the recession. It had to do with dodgy bankers who were inflating the price of oil with call options and the like, now that those banks and suckin hind tit.

Please dont tell me that $150 oil was due to demand, come one. World demand has not dropped more than 60% in a few months. I dont not drive because of a recession fear.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Ironhorse

My house is going to be in need of new shingles soon. I wonder if the prices will have come down from a couple of years ago, when I was quoted $4K! Too bad the feds will not rebate new roofs...

Are you sure it won't qualify?

http://www.budget.gc.ca/2009/pamphle...liant3-eng.asp

Examples of HRTC Eligible and Ineligible Expenditures

Eligible

* Renovating a kitchen, bathroom, or basement
* New carpet or hardwood floors
* Building an addition, deck, fence or retaining wall
* A new furnace or water heater
* Painting the interior or exterior of a house
* Resurfacing a driveway
* Laying new sod

Ineligible

* Furniture and appliances (refrigerator, stove, couch)
* Purchase of tools
* Carpet cleaning
* Maintenance contracts (furnace cleaning, snow removal, lawn care, pool cleaning, etc.)

I would think new shingles would be more like new carpet or resurfacing a driveway than it would be like regular maintenance.

I considered doing it last year, but this credit comes at a good time so I will probably schedule it this year.

I think Dan02 does this sort of work (maybe I shold see what his schedule is like), maybe he has a better idea of this qualifies.

[Shazam]

Groceries have gone up because of the Canadian dollar going down, and the fact that's the middle of winter so we need to import virtually everything that's fresh.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by fotze

We had a guy that didn't show up for a few months because he opened up a store. They decided they should stop paying him after a while.

See that story with revenue canada where they have been paying millions to people no longer on the payroll? No bit about trying to get the money back? Nothing to really rectify the problem, just that they will "monitor the problem so that it doesn't get worse". Do you think Revenue Canada would be that shabby if you owed them money? Pathetic. /rant

Bob Slydell: Milton Waddams.
Dom Portwood: Who's he?
Bob Porter: You know, squirrely looking guy, mumbles a lot.
Dom Portwood: Oh, yeah.
Bob Slydell: Yeah, we can't actually find a record of him being a current employee here.
Bob Porter: I looked into it more deeply and I found that apparently what happened is that he was laid off five years ago and no one ever told him about it; but through some kind of glitch in the payroll department, he still gets a paycheck.
Bob Slydell: So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch.
Bill Lumbergh: Great.
Dom Portwood: So, uh, Milton has been let go?
Bob Slydell: Well, just a second there, professor. We, uh, we fixed the *glitch*. So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it'll just work itself out naturally.
Bob Porter: We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever possible. Problem is solved from your end.

[Gundo]

I saved over $8000 on my new SUV just by driving up to Edmonton because the car market is more competitive up there. My wife works with lawyers and a recession means crime goes up, crime goes up lawyers get busy and next thing you know she gets a promotion and a raise. I work in the concrete industry which is seasonal and with the slowdown in subdivisions im looking forward to only working 60-70hrs a week instead of 85+hrs a week in the summer so I get more me time in the sun.

Yeah my portfolio took a $10,000 hit in the last year, but I took a loss of 13% when the entire market took a loss of almost 40% so still nothing to complain about there, just pour more money into the low market if you can and enjoy the benefits of the next boom.

[Julio]

There is definitely better service in retail and other service industries, and as a manager in that industry, both the quanity and quality of my employees has risen.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by Gundo

I saved over $8000 on my new SUV just by driving up to Edmonton because the car market is more competitive up there.

What type of vehicle did you buy? are most vehicles cheaper up there?

[Gundo]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

What type of vehicle did you buy? are most vehicles cheaper up there?

We bought a 2006 BMW X3, only difference between the ones we looked at here and in Edmonton was the interior color. But as a whole they were much cheaper up there. But everything I have seen Edmonton seems to be 10-15% cheaper all around sometimes even more.

[Shazam]

I went to M&M Meat Shops and there were FOUR employees! Service! Yay!

[Wookie]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

The 0.85 has nothing to do with the recession. It had to do with dodgy bankers who were inflating the price of oil with call options and the like, now that those banks and suckin hind tit.

Please dont tell me that $150 oil was due to demand, come one. World demand has not dropped more than 60% in a few months. I dont not drive because of a recession fear.

Blah blah blah, it can be argued forever as to the reason for high prices. The graph shows we're at a 4 year low, and 8 - 10 cents ago we were at a 6 year low.

I consider that substantially cheaper regardless of the reasons.

Isn't this recession caused by greedy consumers and bankers as well?

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by Wookie

Blah blah blah, it can be argued forever as to the reason for high prices. The graph shows we're at a 4 year low, and 8 - 10 cents ago we were at a 6 year low.

I consider that substantially cheaper regardless of the reasons.

Isn't this recession caused by greedy consumers and bankers as well?

Speculators had a very large role in the oil price bubble:

http://www.time.com/time/business/ar...859380,00.html

There's a zillion of these types of articles detailing some company futzing around with futures like they knew what they were doing.

[Wookie]

Originally Posted by Shazam

Speculators had a very large role in the oil price bubble:

http://www.time.com/time/business/ar...859380,00.html

There's a zillion of these types of articles detailing some company futzing around with futures like they knew what they were doing.

Oh, I don't doubt that...

But the point I was making doesn't require proof or debate, gas prices are near a 5 year low. Cheaper than they were previously. That's all I was saying.

Still, original question remains, what are people seeing come down in price?

I'm mostly interested in the trades? Which doesn't mean I'm hoping some of our "trades" people here are suffering.

I know FlamesGimp stopped doing floors because he couldn't find decent staff. Now maybe he can - but there's not much work? ?

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

I would think new shingles would be more like new carpet or resurfacing a driveway than it would be like regular maintenance.

I considered doing it last year, but this credit comes at a good time so I will probably schedule it this year.

I think Dan02 does this sort of work (maybe I shold see what his schedule is like), maybe he has a better idea of this qualifies.

Thanks for the plug Bobblehead, as for the tax credit. I am 99% sure a new roof qualifies, however, small repairs might not.

I did some research for this thread and found some links, including a newspaper article where the reporter claimed to have called the finance department and confirmed that yes a new roof is definately covered by the credit.


However, i hit submit and to my chagrin, I had lost internet connection and hadn't noticed and lost the post and unfortunately at the moment don't have time to put it back together.

errr had one of them open in another window

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/l...lumbiaConsumer

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Dan02

Thanks for the plug Bobblehead, as for the tax credit. I am 99% sure a new roof qualifies, however, small repairs might not.

I did some research for this thread and found some links, including a newspaper article where the reporter claimed to have called the finance department and confirmed that yes a new roof is definately covered by the credit.


However, i hit submit and to my chagrin, I had lost internet connection and hadn't noticed and lost the post and unfortunately at the moment don't have time to put it back together.

errr had one of them open in another window

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/l...lumbiaConsumer

This might help you

http://www.budget.gc.ca/2009/pamphle...liant3-eng.asp