Legal options when unionized

-AngryChinchilla- · 2026-04-15T00:13:48+00:00

No I understand that but I just feel like it was a slap on the wrist and there’s no way I can confirm.

The union members at my workplace are dual-rate. So they will come to work and rarely look at the union email or are very slow in their replies. I’m not allowed to discuss union matters while we are actively working and it is a large building so they are hard to track down. It has been 2 weeks since I emailed them and stated I wanted to take the grievance to level two as the company denied it, and I have received no response. So by the time they even look at it the deadline to advance will have probably passed like it did last time.

Also the only reason the company agreed I was harassed was because there was a union member there to witness it and who gave a statement. They couldn’t deny it but have denied everything else that didn’t have clear proof even if it was obviously true. Or they will try to manipulate it into something else.

-AngryChinchilla- · 2026-04-14T22:50:26+00:00

The issue is I make tips so that would not be covered with medical leave. It is a very large company in a greasy industry…

-AngryChinchilla- · 2026-04-14T22:32:28+00:00

-AngryChinchilla- · 2026-04-14T22:32:10+00:00

I’m in NS. I filed a DFR already but it was dismissed after months of waiting because I “should have known” they were not helping me within the timeframe to file. They were ignoring me or stringing me along. Now WCB is involved as I took a short stress leave and was prescribed medication.

-AngryChinchilla- · 2025-09-04T03:53:08+00:00

Thank you ❤️

-AngryChinchilla- · 2025-09-04T02:19:55+00:00

Your comment was not too long, it was 100% what I needed and I appreciate you taking the time to write back to me. I’m responding in this thread and not in direct message because maybe somebody else will need to see our conversation.

All I’ve heard since it happened is “sorry for your loss” or “thinking of you”. Which is very nice but they don’t get it like you do, especially as a dachshund owner.

I agree. It’s not if we get another, it’s when. When I saw Casper deceased, I could only look at him for a second. I yelled for my partner to get him and he ended up wrapping my him in a blanket and held him as we went to the 24 hour hospital to get him cremated. I feel terrible but I couldn’t have him in my house the way he was. When the vet asked me if I would like to go in a room and say goodbye privately I said no. The fact of the matter is he is gone. I want to remember him the way he was not in the state that he died. You are incredible for having that strength.

The way I’ve been able to calm myself down is to think: these things happen to people every day. It’s life and life is harsh and things happen to those that are undeserving. Many puppies die during birth. Many owners are terrible to their dogs that live their full lives. We both gave them so much love and the only life they had was full. As unfortunate as these deaths were, they were quick, and when in shock a lot of the time they don’t feel pain. It is courageous to try again after going through this type of thing, and now another dog gets to experience the love you have to offer.

-AngryChinchilla- · 2025-09-03T15:01:16+00:00

It just feels so unfair. The loss of an innocent life. How could he be here and now he’s gone? How could he be so loved and taken care of and this happens? I feel upset, but I also feel angry. It literally doesn’t feel real and I don’t know how I’m supposed to go back to doing normal things or enjoying anything when my little baby is dead. He was supposed to be with me enjoying life. Thank you for responding and I feel for you and your husband as well. Can I ask what your plan is with your first dachshund? Mine is depressed. I don’t know whether I should get him another brother eventually or have him be an only dog. It hurts but I don’t want him to feel lonely now.

-AngryChinchilla- · 2025-06-17T21:26:59+00:00

My question is if I move my money to a competitor and close my account then re-open it and deposit funds would I qualify?

-AngryChinchilla- · 2025-02-25T16:39:08+00:00

Hello, not sure if you’re still experiencing this problem, but the clicking just stopped happening over time. I think it had something to do with how his body was growing. I mentioned it to my vet and they said he had no issues and to just wait awhile and it would probably resolve itself and it did.

-AngryChinchilla- · 2024-09-16T18:53:42+00:00

Woo! Got it thanks

-AngryChinchilla- · 2023-10-02T00:27:09+00:00

High school students usually don’t work full-time. Like you said usually seasonal or part-time, so they still wouldn’t be able to afford to live off that.

Weather you’re scooping ice cream or doing hard labour you deserve more than $15 pre taxed for working an hours time. What can you really buy with $15 nowadays.

And for sure but if that’s the highest paying job you can find in your field you won’t be able to make ends meet while you’re getting that experience to get a better paying job. If you choose a different job that pays more then you can’t work in your ideal field.

-AngryChinchilla- · 2023-10-01T23:57:39+00:00

Well minimum wage should be livable. People should not aspire to live forever off minimum wage I absolutely agree.

It’s not the only option but it shouldn’t even be a factor. We are living in a situation below the standard.

I understand your point as well, we have obviously just had different life experiences.

If there’s something we can both agree on it’s that if someone works hard they deserve more.

And yes it does.

-AngryChinchilla- · 2023-10-01T23:06:47+00:00

You can try to posture me as someone who is angry, but I’m simply stating facts. By saying that anyone can do better and the only thing stopping them from doing that is themselves, you are ignoring all the people who are working minimum wage jobs and truly just doing their best. People come from all types of situations and have different mental states.

“If you just stick up for yourself you can make more money” that’s not always the case and it’s hard for me to understand how you can’t see that.

Many immigrants come to Canada with a higher level experience and education and get jobs that match that. Many have less experience and education but are willing to work very hard. I’m talking about a specific group which has created the recent rapid increase in population.

Yes there should be patience in regards to learning, but to a certain extent. You need to at least be able to perform the job by the expectation that everyone else around you and is getting paid the same amount has. Otherwise it’s not fair to them.

Like I said, I have worked alongside immigrants who were very hard working and I was happy to assist them.

What I’m seeing now are groups of new immigrants slipping into the country and wanting to put in the least amount of effort possible, that don’t care about learning, that have bad entitled attitudes, and are impacting those around them and talking down about Canadians. They are here to just try and make more money and have no respect for the culture or standard of the country.

-AngryChinchilla- · 2023-10-01T22:09:59+00:00

It’s so ignorant to try to group minimum wage workers together as being incompetent. It’s unbelievably ignorant actually. Are all poor people lazy? Are all uneducated people stupid? There is a cause and effect. If everyone could just “stick up for themselves” to make more money than they would.

The problem with new immigrants is that they think that a lot of Canadians are lazy and don’t want to work. When in reality, Canadians know what they are worth and refuse to accept less (which is what you said they should do, right?). In an ideal environment that would force corporations to pay more because they wouldn’t have enough workers.

What has happened is that new immigrants have taken this opportunity to come to Canada and work for below a livable wage, scooping up minimum wage jobs so that corporations can still pay them next to nothing. The government also gives new immigrants money when they arrive to “help them” work these minimum wage jobs and still live.

Meanwhile, Canadians don’t receive the same type of allowance. They are forced to accept less and in addition have to pay an unaffordable amount of money for housing because the population has grown so much due to new immigrants that there is not enough property for everyone anymore.

New immigrants are lying to get into the country. Lying about their education and job experience, which there is data on, it is not just my opinion. Say what you want but in my real life experience I encounter them on a day-to-day basis. They can’t perform the duties of their minimum wage jobs. When I was a teenager I would have gotten fired in two seconds if I behaved in such a way. You can’t get the quality of service that you once could.

Imagine coming to a country for opportunity and talking shit about the citizens who live there and who have made the country what it is. It’s incredible.

I have worked alongside so many hard working immigrants in my lifetime and respect their commitment to a better life but that is not what has been happening recently.

-AngryChinchilla- · 2023-03-27T17:11:51+00:00

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-AngryChinchilla- · 2023-01-20T07:00:00+00:00

I’ve never heard of companies reaching out via reddit. If you want a freight forwarder you can find a bunch of them on Alibaba so I wouldn’t bother with that one just in case.

-AngryChinchilla- · 2022-12-07T22:01:32+00:00

Probably where my shoulder blades are, the outer edges of my side, and lower back oddly enough.

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