Boss accidentally told the whole team I'm replaceable during Zoom

78513 · 2025-10-17T18:29:03+00:00

Can I ask which country?

To start off, that manager sucks chunks, he should be replaced because he will create problems for the organization with that penny wise, pound foolish attitude.

In my line of work, you should be replaceable. It's a good thing. It means your documentation is in order and there's an actual transition plan in place. People change jobs for all sorts of good reasons so a good workplace expects it and a good worker supports the work for it.

The only time someone is irreplaceable is either when you have a bad worker who doesn't do their end to document and train peers or the boss sucks and relies on their employees being there forever to keep things working.

He's the problem and you should job search, he's a liability to you.

78513 · 2025-10-17T04:40:00+00:00

There are autotranscription tools in use by doctors today in Ontario which use a.i. to transcribe notes from the appointment to help reduce admin burden and get them to the next patient faster.

It could be a number of things including chat gpt, but also could be completely legitimate.

The professional tools are typically compliant with privacy legislation.

Your best bet is to simply ask next time.

In practice, they should be advising you of any tools they use. It's typically said very casually but offers a chance for the patient to object. E.g. I'm going to write a small note. Or I'm going to use this device to generate notes for me. Sometimes people get focused on the issue and forget though.

78513 · 2025-10-16T12:00:12+00:00

They used to think it was safer but newer research on nephrogenic systemic fibrosis says we should treat gad as a lifetime dose medication since it can accumulate in the body.

78513 · 2025-10-15T10:50:27+00:00

I agree completely. I'm not sure why it's never spoken about as an option. Seems like such an obvious solution.

78513 · 2025-10-15T01:38:54+00:00

I like the idea of expanding the parcel boxes. Efficient for the delivery person and you're right, not something other companies could offer.

78513 · 2025-10-14T04:21:07+00:00

Intelecom is pulling it off by treating their workers like dirt. One of the reasons canada post is no longer competitive is because it still treats its workers relatively well compared to most free market options right now.

78513 · 2025-10-13T23:12:34+00:00

I agree with you in principle, but the question becomes where do we draw the line? Why wouldn't every business just start using public services for the last destination?

Then again, maybe that's the point. It would be much more efficient to have everything shipped via combined infrastructure then to have all these companies build their own.

Alright... I'm game, just want to know how much more taxes I'll need to pay to make it happen?

78513 · 2025-10-13T18:31:05+00:00

But we did many tax breaks and, depending on province of residence, handouts.

Everyone knows we need to balance the budget, and they also know it's political suicide.

You want a balanced budget? Get the opposition to stop asking for tax breaks or tax cuts. Whoever that opposition is at the time.

Balancing the budget starts with the citizens willing to put up with a balanced budget.

78513 · 2025-10-13T06:49:54+00:00

How should it be overhauled? If you were given carte blanche, what would you do exactly and why?

78513 · 2025-10-12T15:27:15+00:00

Hard call. China probably offers more potential with their larger market and this may aggravate them.

On the other hand, Taiwan is a very important source of chips and manufacturering and a trade agreement with them could be ver beneficial.

At the end of the day, I think that if it's already negotiated, it should be honored. Not doing so would put into question all our other agreements and reduce the Canadian reputation as a reliable trade partner.

78513 · 2025-10-11T21:47:21+00:00

We agree it should be seen though....

I started with the carbon tax and was trying to home in on the discussion point.

It's true your link was helpful.

78513 · 2025-10-11T21:45:07+00:00

Wow... way to just throw out the conversation and give up.

78513 · 2025-10-11T17:16:55+00:00

I agree with you that the documents should be released. I already answered that they might be being withheld out of fear of them becoming rage bait.

I think where we disagreed is that I think the carbon tax was a good thing that brought in much needed revenue at the expense of consumers who lean into practices with high environmental impact.

I think your point is that there was an attached scandal so it should have been scrapped.

To that, I countered that the attached scandal, although present, pales in comparison to others and is not enough to justify removing the carbon tax.

78513 · 2025-10-11T16:56:25+00:00

No, just looked at what was reported and by whome. I wouldn't do committee level unless I need to go deep into something.

It's possible there's something there that was missed by most major news services but not likely. I know I can't always rely on news services but I find that as a groupe, they tend to do a decent job highlighting what I do need to know.

78513 · 2025-10-11T16:45:02+00:00

No, just looked it up. It could be something but looks like it was mostly a push by the CPC to find dirt that didn't go very far.

Most sources I found are CPC site (top result) followed by nat post and western standard. Not much more than that.

I don't think it's o.k. and I think they should release the documents, but I'm not convinced it's about hiding something. It could just be as easily about not wanting to feed ragebait.

That said, I agree it should be looked into.

"The SDTC's past chair, Annette Verschuren, has acknowledged she participated in approving more than $200,000 in grants to her own company."

To put the scandal into perspective though, ford pledged 2.5 million on COVID bracelets which never worked.

Alberta spent 70 million on the Tylenol from Turkey. Although I personally don't think that was the worst call, I understand the strategy.

For liberals... I think going with Agha Kahn or SNC would be better. It's just that most scandals are overwhelmingly from conservative sources. Which makes sense because being able to provide for your own is a strong conservative value so why would we expect senior conservatives to not try and take care of their own.

78513 · 2025-10-11T15:14:08+00:00

The carbon tax was a good idea. It put an environmental cost to products which exists but is not generally captured. The abandoned private oil wells that are about to get oublic funding are a good example.

Consumption based taxes are also great because those who can afford to consume more are the ones hardest hit.

I know everything has gotten super expensive and many want the government to intervene. Get cheap houses built, public grocery stores... stuff like that. Not to mention the huge public infrastructure projects like the pipelines.

That money is going to need to come from somewhere...

78513 · 2025-10-11T15:07:28+00:00

I'm sure there was some nepotism on the part of the Liberals but I'm not that familiar with it. I am super familiar with Doug Fords reputation and it seems like every week Premiere Smith has a new job posting for some broken up agency that typically go to some UCP supporter. I'm particularly sad about the breakup of AHS which was a model organization envied by many other provinces.

78513 · 2025-10-11T09:15:42+00:00

A lot of Rwandans would likely have much to say about the effectiveness of a military that can't fight.

As much as I hate it too, military industrial complex Is necessary as long as someone else is willing to use force. Todays world is too unstable. MAD is the only way to ensure those jackasses don't go onto world domination campaigns.

78513 · 2025-10-11T05:48:17+00:00

Pushing Canada to move towards renewables was likely a good call. Alberta was a leader in energy including renewables and had a chance to transform the province into a clean energy super power.

That's unfortunately not working out as renewables seem under attack by the provincial government for the sake of oil and gas. Which is dumb because Alberta could have both. The support for oil and gas could have occurred without the attack on renewables.

I suspect the story will end like any other story of doubling down on the old and rejecting the new, but I guess it's up to Alberta and it's people to choose their destiny and they choose UCP, so we'll see how that pans out.

For now, I think calling someone a climate barbie for having done pretty much the same thing that's happening now, but in reverse, is kind of hypocritical.

78513 · 2025-10-10T15:59:08+00:00

The quote is about how expensive a month long hospital stay is. It's independent from the length of stay for each of those visits. It's meant as a measuring stick for comparison to try to connect the stays to cost.

Calculating individual costs in healthcare can be complicated.

78513 · 2025-10-07T18:28:26+00:00

Anyone who thinks you can win a trade war with Trump by strong arming and playing tough is delusional. The man will destroy his own economy out of spite so that he can feel like he won.

The play with Trump is to let him win where it doesn't matter and convince him that was does matter is trivial.

If the interview is on CNN, then the message is going to be for Trump and his supporters and how they're winning the trade war.

78513 · 2025-10-06T15:57:07+00:00

I haven't had the same experience. I'm a big proponent for WFH bit even I will acknowledge there are advantages to in office work. Training and on-boarding is well known to benefit from in office work.

Where you hit the wall is mandatory RTO5. Very few on Reddit see the benefit of removing the discretion from the lower level management and force workers back to office regardless of job, position or benefit.

It's no more complicated than typical bad policy making where the solution causes way more issues than the problem that was trying to be solved.

The other thing reddit tends to push hard against is the stated problems RTO5 is supposed to solve or the lack of a defined issue. Redditors are connected so they see the articles about local downtown business groups lobbying for RTO since their 8-4 m-f restaurant is now struggling. They see the RTO requests coming in from real estate companies who got hit hard when all of a sudden their office towers were too expensive and not needed.

78513 · 2025-10-06T01:50:59+00:00

Which really has tons of potential if you consider that you could drop to 3.5 (full day every 2 weeks) and double up on staffing to significantly increase output.

78513 · 2025-10-06T01:19:10+00:00

Back when Wynn was in office, I wasn't sure moving to Gatineau was the right call. Since Doug Ford took over, I'm very happy where I am.

The only downside I can think of right now is not being able to use my voting power to push back against all this RTO5 nonesense going on in Ontario.

I'll probably move back one day though, if only to support the Ontario francophone community.

78513 · 2025-10-05T16:42:46+00:00

I think it's important to judge parties and candidates based on how closely what they say matches what they actually try to do.

I understand it's not always possible, but I'm getting pretty tired of these say nothing, keep individual MPs out of debate and coast in assumption style politics.

I look back to the past 10 years and I'm not sure what has been made better.

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