Posted by Roarkiller on 10.07.2014, 09:23 AM: Asians tend to have bigger families. I come from a family of six and most of my cousins' families average five per. And now that they've started marrying it's getting even harder for me to remember everyone's names, lol.
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Posted by Kazegami on 10.07.2014, 10:55 AM: I'm now off classes from Friday to Monday. Henceforth, I will be going nocturnal at weekends. 8D
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Posted by arren18 on 10.07.2014, 05:55 PM: Oh man, so lucky. I thought I had Thursdays off, only to find out after classes began that we had something then after all. I believe I'll have no classes on Fridays in second semester though.
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Posted by saviour2012 on 10.08.2014, 12:12 PM: How many of these points you guys agree with?
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Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 10.09.2014, 12:46 PM: I think it's interesting how it brings up the concept of a steady job. One of my profs told my class we would have to learn to adapt to a changing world which may involve having to go through multiple jobs and careers. For me, I know this is going to be true personally, because I cannot for the life of me imagine working a single job my whole life. I've seen this happen with my parents, and how unhappy they seemed with their work environments but chose to stick to them because of their safety net. My prof recommended trying to release that sense of security, and I found his words meant a lot, at least to me. I know I'm a mature and responsible human being. My choices are my own to make.
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Posted by fenkashi on 10.09.2014, 03:05 PM: Ugh I feel sick.
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Posted by saviour2012 on 10.09.2014, 03:36 PM: I dont know if i agree or not about a steady job. If i get a job with similar or better payscale then fine i will change it. But without those unless i have some money in my pocket to spend i wont leave it.
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Posted by husky51 on 10.09.2014, 08:37 PM: @fen
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Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 10.10.2014, 09:54 AM: Security jobs can pay a lot here depending on your amount of experience. My friend was working in security at a hospital before she had her baby. She was planning on working in a bigger hospital after gaining more experience, but she and her boyfriend are moving back out to Toronto to live with his family so they can save up to buy a house and cut down on childcare. I think she's sticking with security work when she moves back out there because she's had two decent jobs with it and loves it.
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Posted by husky51 on 10.10.2014, 11:32 AM: hahaha, reminds me of when I worked for the CHP and while normally out in the field in my van, inspecting truck and bus operations, this one day I was in the office and Vicki came up to me. Now Vicki had been with the Department about a year and a half longer than I and doing the same work as me. While she was setting up her vacation dates, she found out that she was only getting 10 hrs of vacation time per month and I was getting 12 hrs. (BTW, I didn't know any of this at the time). She came up and asked , "Why?"...
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Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 10.10.2014, 12:31 PM: Yeah, I agree with qualification. Although, at the work places I've been to, the guys usually did jobs such as lifting (which there were plenty of strong women who could lift the boxes just as well, but were told they couldn't have the job because they were a woman) or pushing buttons, or emptying water buckets for our stations. Or even driving a forklift. Things we could do, but people for some reason felt we couldn't because of our gender. So it was less about qualification and more about gender issues unfortunately. It was the same that happened with a girl I know who has been a manager and dismissed despite being just as qualified. Some didn't like that she got the job over an older male student despite her having more experience in management. It's things like that.
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Posted by saviour2012 on 10.10.2014, 08:46 PM: I agree with husky that if someone is qualified then they should be respected.
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Posted by husky51 on 10.11.2014, 11:12 AM: AHHHHH! I'm sitting here thinking of what to have for breakfast and someone is cooking bacon!!!!
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Posted by Saddletank on 10.11.2014, 01:21 PM: FFF aren't there gender discrimination laws in Canada? Surely there are! In Britain those practices would land any employer in an expensive lawsuit in minutes!
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Posted by husky51 on 10.11.2014, 07:26 PM: Don't know why, but just in the last three days, I've been receiving a lot of junk mail from the UK for some reason...
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Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 10.14.2014, 12:20 AM:
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Posted by arren18 on 10.16.2014, 02:22 PM: The difficulty with laws like that is that unless people report incidents then it can easily go unpunished. Suing a company isn't always an easy thing to do, so a boss with access to good lawyers can do what they like and not worry too much about any comeuppance.
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Posted by husky51 on 10.16.2014, 03:56 PM: Unfortunately, that's true over here as well. |
Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 10.18.2014, 11:29 PM: So I saw Margaret Atwood today. I should have gone and talked to her. I found it funny how everyone was assuming she was a dark, twisted lady who would be too intense. I just laughed and said, she's just a person. My boyfriend and I both found her to be a very interesting and hilarious lady. Really wish we had gone to meet her. Some of my friends did and took pictures. |
Posted by saviour2012 on 10.31.2014, 08:59 AM: LOL at what Pope did
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