01-25-2025, 10:08 PM
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#21381
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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The posts remind me of when we were in high school trying to stretch out a couple of thoughts to fill the number of words / pages requirement for an essay.
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01-26-2025, 12:10 AM
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#21382
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Originally Posted by curves2000
Like with every other post and poster you like to see what you want to see and like to argue random things, cause I dunno, maybe your bored?
She is in the country living here full time as a tourist and spending more than her 180 days in a calendar year. She comes and goes as she pleases to the US but spends more than 50% of the year here. That may be issue #1.
Her previous employer who she worked for has large operations in Canada, including Calgary. Working remotely in Canada without a work permit is generally not allowed. I actually don't care but the rules are the rules.
Her new employer, the non profit, may or may not have operations here. Frankly I don't care if they do but based on everything else said before, she is probably making a mockery of rules and laws. She is an American who thinks perhaps rules don't apply to her. I could go on and on but no point because you can't process it. She couldn't return to office at her east coast job because she lives in Canada.
There are multiple governments and tens of millions of people who are being told they need to return to office. This is happening everywhere. It's ok to admit your wrong. One missed email and call from me is not forcing trillion dollar companies to make these decisions. I am purely speculating that this is probably due to business decisions and management inserting control.
You may not like it, I may not like it but that does not mean it's not happening. I really don't know what point YOU are trying to argue with WFH.
For someone who spends an insane amount of time online from home apparently, do you really think the headlines and the culture shift is happening cause I said something on CP about a small AB Government department?
Just plain weird responses. Like you argue everything. A simple search about WFH a dying trend for a lot of employers and you get a ton of responses. Your answer? "The search engine must be wrong, I work from home fine!"
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
It’s funny watching him use the same formula over and over again.
- brings up a “real” issue with some loosely related anecdotes that suggest he doesn’t actually know much about the issue
- people point out the obvious
- brings up even more loosely related anecdotes, which are now borderline absurd or have nothing to do with the original issue
- people once again point out the obvious
- reframes criticisms of the anecdotes as denial that the original issue (which hasn’t even really been explored) exists at all
And over and over again.
We’re talking about WFH and his complaints so far have been people not responding to emails and a woman than makes too much money and makes his husband watch the baby for two whole hours (wow!) a couple times a week. Two things that have nothing to do with WFH but he’s going to respond pretending that people are denying issues with WFH exist.
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Every time. What a funny guy.
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01-26-2025, 11:04 AM
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#21383
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Franchise Player
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If she’s working from Canada but being paid by an American employer it isn’t that just money right into the Canadian economy with non of the benefits of being a Canadian citizen / legal worker
Seems win / win !
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01-26-2025, 11:43 AM
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#21384
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Vancouver
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Seems like he really just wants to call immigration on his friend's wife. Or that maybe his friend does, being so hard by.
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01-26-2025, 11:54 AM
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#21385
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jan 2021
Location: On the cusp
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PuckSlap
BSTL in a public place.
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I thought you were female? My bad.
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01-26-2025, 11:57 AM
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#21386
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: the middle
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach
Seems like he really just wants to call immigration on his friend's wife. Or that maybe his friend does, being so hard by.
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It'd be a real tough case for them. Get called because she's working without a work permit, but she's never working!
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01-26-2025, 12:01 PM
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#21387
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Barnet - North London
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That’s one heck of a loophole!
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01-26-2025, 12:02 PM
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#21388
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Niceland
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PepsiFree
If the husband gets handed his child (poor, poor man) for a couple hours a few times a week doesn’t that imply that he’s also WFH?
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You are missing the point completely. If she only has to give him the baby a few times a week, it supports the idea that her WFH is really not all encompassing and she can simultaneously watch the baby all but a few hours in a week. Thus the employer may not be getting great value.
Not sure how misogyny worked its way in here
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01-26-2025, 12:12 PM
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#21389
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I know people are unreliable #######s on kijiji and FB marketplace and the like, but FFS, if I said I'd buy your entry door, and tell you I'm having my builders prep for it, and set up transport it and without a word it's just "oh I sold it to someone else"... I hope you die in a fire. So angry.
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I feel kind of bad. I have done this, but it is kind of how to keep yourself sane when selling stuff that a bunch of people have shown some interest in. I always tell people to message first to confirm that it’s still available (considering half of them don’t check the status of the ad) and I’ll give the exact address once they say they’re ready to pick the item up. One guy got upset about it, but I want to clean my house and I am not holding stuff on the chance that somebody might come. I get an entry door is pretty unique. He probably just wanted it gone and was excited that somebody grabbed it.
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01-26-2025, 12:55 PM
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#21390
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jonesy
You are missing the point completely. If she only has to give him the baby a few times a week, it supports the idea that her WFH is really not all encompassing and she can simultaneously watch the baby all but a few hours in a week. Thus the employer may not be getting great value.
Not sure how misogyny worked its way in here
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You found a “point” in there??
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01-26-2025, 01:19 PM
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#21391
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jonesy
You are missing the point completely. If she only has to give him the baby a few times a week, it supports the idea that her WFH is really not all encompassing and she can simultaneously watch the baby all but a few hours in a week. Thus the employer may not be getting great value.
Not sure how misogyny worked its way in here
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If I had to guess, it’s because the woman is the focus of the contempt when the man is also guilty of not providing “great value” to his employer (as he also is WFH and takes several hours off per week to care for the child). The woman in this situation is not only successfully holding down a high paying full time job that provides over 75% of the household income, but she’s also handling the vast majority of the childcare responsibilities. That’s testament to both her and the value of WFH for both employers and employees.
The husband, while framed as the voice of reason here, is actually the one deserving of criticism.
And the people who believe the value of work is the time spent and not the quality and quantity of the output are the ones missing something crucial. If the outputs remain the same, how is the woman sitting in an office and paying for childcare better for anyone than sitting at home and not?
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01-26-2025, 01:22 PM
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#21392
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Originally Posted by Wormius
I feel kind of bad. I have done this, but it is kind of how to keep yourself sane when selling stuff that a bunch of people have shown some interest in. I always tell people to message first to confirm that it’s still available (considering half of them don’t check the status of the ad) and I’ll give the exact address once they say they’re ready to pick the item up. One guy got upset about it, but I want to clean my house and I am not holding stuff on the chance that somebody might come. I get an entry door is pretty unique. He probably just wanted it gone and was excited that somebody grabbed it.
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Yeah, at the end of the day the person who pays first is the one who bought it. I’ll happily say I’ll hold something, but if someone else wants to buy it first, it’s theirs. Of course I’ll send a courtesy message that someone else is interested to the original person to see if they can make faster arrangements, so I understand why it would be a gear grinder if there was not courtesy message.
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01-26-2025, 01:28 PM
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#21393
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: SW Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
You found a “point” in there??
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Lol exactly. There's no point in curves' posts, and if there was she's changed it 5 times by the time you get to the end of the incoherent ramblings anyway
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01-26-2025, 01:35 PM
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#21394
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Originally Posted by btimbit
Lol exactly. There's no point in curves' posts, and if there was she's changed it 5 times by the time you get to the end of the incoherent ramblings anyway
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That’s why it’s so easy to predict his responses.
Starts with a premise and a conclusion, uses poor supporting arguments, people point out his supporting arguments are poor, he reframes those criticisms as denials that his conclusion exists.
“People who WFH are bad. Here’s A B and C as evidence. Employers are forcing people back to work!”
“A B and C don’t make sense and don’t actually support that premise.”
“Oh so employers aren’t forcing people back to work??”
You could set a watch to it.
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01-26-2025, 01:35 PM
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#21395
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Franchise Player
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It grinds my gears when someone comes up with a catchy new saying, or digs up an old saying, which catches on and becomes popular on social media and most people sound extremely stupid when they use it or they don't even know what they are saying. One of the newest ones that I'm seeing on Reddit is "noun the verb" and it comes up in a lot of political criticism. It sounds so stupid.
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01-26-2025, 03:00 PM
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#21396
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
You found a “point” in there??
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Bad takes are points.
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01-26-2025, 03:10 PM
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#21397
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Craig McTavish' Merkin
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Originally Posted by Sliver
Woah, dudes. I plunked in Curves's post to google AI and asked it to condense it for me. I wonder if photon could whip up some code to do this automatically.
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No need. Human evolution has already created the perfect tool to deal with his posts. It’s called “the thumb” and I use it to scroll past his posts.
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01-26-2025, 03:14 PM
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#21398
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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Yep, every one is tl;dr
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01-26-2025, 03:41 PM
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#21399
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by habernac
Yep, every one is tl;dr
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I could possibly agree with them but not a chance I’m reading that no paragraph Berlin Wall of text. As my dad used to tell my auntie when she was blabbering under his breath. STFU.
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01-26-2025, 04:21 PM
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#21400
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: California
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I love curves posts. It’s always fun seeing where the discussion will go. I enjoy the craziness.
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