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So Canada Day is coming up. July 1st which is next Tuesday.

And we have next Tuesday off. We come in to work on Monday, then we have Tuesday off.

Really? We can't just slide things a little bit and make a long weekend out of it? It's like Christmas where it absolutely has to be on the exact day?

Come on.
 
My wife once got released with 6mo pay. She was the most recent hire at a firm that was a feeder fund for Bernie Madoff and since she was last in she was first out. They released her about 6mo after she was hired. Not only was there no money left for later releases (eventually everyone was released), but my wife was first to hit the local job market which was soon flooded with casualties from this firm and others. She was hired 3mo later.

That day she got fired she was devastated. But in retrospect it was perhaps one of the best things that ever happened to her professionally.
 
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My wife once got released with 6mo pay. She was the most recent hire at a firm that was a feeder fund for Bernie Madoff and since she was last in she was first out. They released her about 6mo after she was hired. Not only was there no money left for later releases (eventually everyone was released), but my wife was first to hit the local job market which was soon flooded with casualties from this firm and others. She was hired 3mo later.

That day she got fired she was devastated. But in retrospect it was perhaps one of the best things that ever happened to her professionally.
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Well yeah, look at her now! That's pretty nice though, three months of pay from the old job, plus 3 months from the new gig, that's a nice little nest egg right there.
 
Cami
You get a full year?! Is it always paid? A FULL YEAR??????????
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If your employer is cheap, you only get what the govt gives you, which is roughly half your salary. A lot of employers top up.

My wife-to-be gets 6 months full salary, then she loses the top-up and only gets govt. money.

Not a bad deal.

Canada needs babies.
 
The government pays?! Fucking shit, I was born in the wrong country.

Lucky bastards.

I cannot believe you get a full year!

We only get six weeks and it's not always paid either, at least not in lower jobs. Soon as your vagina is back to normal, it's back to work!
 
Matty
One of our directors just couldn't stand her. I liked her because she occasionally snapped at business nerds. Very unprofessional, and entertaining.

:mrquincy:
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I've seen a similar move, guy I worked with at an advertising agency took his two weeks vacation back to back only to be fired at the end. The rumor was don't take your two weeks back to back, but plenty did. The real issue was he was kind of a dick and the CFO hated him. :handshake:
 
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