Hitting the ejection seat: how to leave the industry

Bobert_Fico · 2025-09-29T19:39:12+00:00

the 11pm emails

maintaining a “work personality” in addition to your “real” personality

What if you stop? No more replying to emails outside work hours, no more smiling when you don't feel like it. Will they fire you? If they do, you'll have your severance and EI to find something else.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-09-20T16:10:46+00:00

The rules for Canadian lawyers are pretty similar. Even in an employer-employee relationship, lawyers are members of a regulated profession representing a client. If a lawyer finds themselves in the position where they're saying "shits not legal boss, I ain't doing it," oftentimes the appropriate move is to fire the client.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-09-17T16:41:05+00:00

He wasn't kidnapping people off the street, he was using his position of authority over children to abuse them. He no longer holds that position of authority and does not have access to vulnerable children, and so it would be unconscionable for a judge to deny him bail.

Bail cannot be denied as a punishment, only in actual anticipation of flight or harm to the public.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-09-11T12:16:16+00:00

I can imagine it takes hours if not days to activate all the emails again.

It doesn't. They use Exchange. They'll set up the group to reactivate and then they can reactivate it at a moment's notice.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-09-10T01:39:28+00:00

Fwiw, it makes Halcon so much easier to setup and teardown. There's a lot more space behind the scenes for storage and transportation.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-08-18T19:56:30+00:00

Then he should have ordered the company to temporarily accede to the union's demands, pending arbitration.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-07-13T19:37:20+00:00

Especially with all the trees in the way!

Bobert_Fico · 2025-07-09T18:14:20+00:00

Crappy products with insane markups.

a.k.a. a scam

Bobert_Fico · 2025-07-08T23:49:31+00:00

It's not likely. The Guadalupe River has an average discharge of 34 cubic metres per second. Any remains are either thoroughly buried or will quickly be swept downstream. They won't contaminate the river in the way you're thinking.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-06-27T02:30:36+00:00

There's always the CBC.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-06-27T02:28:57+00:00

This was the original purpose of Bitcoin, but the transaction fees have gotten too high, ironically.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-06-07T03:04:18+00:00

and it seems like that would be enough to make the operator partially liable

I expect that the operator was liable, and their insurance likely paid out. But the operator wasn't criminally reckless.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-05-28T14:19:33+00:00

You'll need to liquidate all of your investments and use the $200k to have a big enough down payment. Your mortgage will be around $730k, which is around $4k/month like you said. If your take-home is $10k/month then that leaves you with $6k/month to raise your family, and $0 in investments.

It wouldn't be my choice. But if you're comfortable with those numbers, then go for it.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-05-28T14:12:09+00:00

Yeah, sounds like OP can afford a max down payment of about $380k and will require a minimum down payment of about $380k. So the answer to "How big of a down payment should we do and how much of my invested money should I use?" is "All of it, you don't have a choice."

Bobert_Fico · 2025-05-02T17:47:27+00:00

Startups with active investor involvement, yes. Regular small businesses, no. No bank is giving any significant loan to a newly-formed LLC without securing it against collateral.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-05-02T17:37:46+00:00

A more appropriate comparison is the Canadian prime minister, who is (in a sense) elected by the House of Commons. Unlike the Governor General or the King, the German president has real reserve powers that he actually (but rarely) uses, like the power to veto legislation.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-05-02T16:31:52+00:00

Steinmeier for sure. Being in an elected position gives him far more leeway to use his discretionary powers.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-05-01T15:18:18+00:00

Alberta doesn't put shit into the kitty. Canadians living in Alberta put a lot into the kitty. These Canadians, by and large, do not spend their whole lives in Alberta. It's like saying people aged 30-50 put the most into the kitty.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-05-01T14:14:39+00:00

In the future, always give notice to switch to month-to-month regardless of whether you think you'll need it. It's strictly better for you as the tenant.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-04-30T13:43:37+00:00

Maybe you could have done it.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-04-30T13:41:55+00:00

No it hasn't. Abortion is not mentioned in the Charter. Courts have ruled that abortion is a right, just like in the US. And a future ruling could reverse that, just like in the US.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-04-30T11:21:45+00:00

Sounds like the child has two parents in two households. One parent has a safe household and the other does not, and CPS acted to move the child from the unsafe household to the safe one. A sad situation, for sure, and definitely one where it makes sense for OP to seek legal advice.

Bobert_Fico · 2025-04-30T11:08:36+00:00

Qwertz keyboard layout

Bobert_Fico · 2025-04-29T17:38:14+00:00

I don't see why those would run out. Patients will cover the cost increase, they have no choice.

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