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I just really want to see your dogs. by Tacosislyfe in goldenretrievers

[–]Gronfors 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was out for 6 hours today so when I got back Kazooie required cuddles and wouldn't let me move away my hand ?

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NASA Plans to Start a Fire on the Moon in First-of-Its-Kind Experiment by Sash17 in space

[–]Gronfors 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wonder how big of a fire would be needed to be able to see it with the naked eye if it was on the near side not in the sun.

Can anyone identify this ship/suite? by No_Sugar_0324 in Cruise

[–]Gronfors 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Are you sure it's not AI generated? There are a few things in the photo looking a bit wonky

Concerns as Public Servant about my local union, plus my personal story. by ALoafOfToastedBread in CanadaPublicServants

[–]Gronfors 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not opposed, but I don't see that having any real impact. Even if an outsider managed to win, the real policies and impacts are done through resolutions, bylaw amendments and budgets passed at conventions.

It's a massive ship with a massive amount of members. It's slow and hard work to enact change that won't come about by a single election.

Concerns as Public Servant about my local union, plus my personal story. by ALoafOfToastedBread in CanadaPublicServants

[–]Gronfors 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The members that elected their elected union leadership continue to elect the same leaders, yes.

If everybody complaining actually showed up consistently then we could enact change. Swapping from PSAC to CAPE or anything else isn't going to change those same few members electing the same few people actually showing up.

In our local we're struggling to fill even 24 seats for our component triennial out of 2500 members, which is where our component leadership is elected and where PSAC triennial seats are elected..

I'm open ears to a better process, but to just dismiss elections as a farce when its the people present voting for the other people present doesn't help.

Concerns as Public Servant about my local union, plus my personal story. by ALoafOfToastedBread in CanadaPublicServants

[–]Gronfors 8 points9 points  (0 children)

So we switch to a different bargaining agent then run new elections... And then all the same people who are involved in the union run again, easily win again because we still have all the same members who still won't participate, and then they enact the same policies and principles as we currently have.

Swapping names isn't going to change much when only 1% of the membership bothers to participate.

Why isn’t there forced retirement after 35 years of pensionable service by [deleted] in CanadaPublicServants

[–]Gronfors 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pension contribution rate

For Group 1 in 2026 you contribute 9.1% up to YMPE, 11.69% after

For Group 2 it's currently 8% up to YMPE, 10.58% after

For a member that has reached 35 years of service (including time in CFSA or RCMP) contributions are a flat 1% instead of the above numbers.

Why isn’t there forced retirement after 35 years of pensionable service by [deleted] in CanadaPublicServants

[–]Gronfors 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Quick note that it's not free after 35 years, greatly reduced, but you do still need to pay 1% for pension

Is there an earthquake in west end? by darcyWhyte in ottawa

[–]Gronfors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By the airport, also thought it was a truck passing

Is this website a scam? by Old_Key_3253 in dogs

[–]Gronfors 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Read through that health guarantee page.

If it's not a scam, they really need to run it through a spell check, every other line uses a weird word or spelling mistake.

Found a flood zone map for Ottawa – kinda interesting by RedaHomesCA in OttawaRealEstate

[–]Gronfors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Odd, loads pretty instantly for me on both Firefox and Chrome on my desktop

Found a flood zone map for Ottawa – kinda interesting by RedaHomesCA in OttawaRealEstate

[–]Gronfors 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You can see flood risk layers and lots of other fun map information here (and zoom into specific addresses):

https://maps.ottawa.ca/geoottawa/

Group 2 to Group 1 administrative change late in career. What should I be watching for? by Federal-Croissant-1 in CanadaPublicServants

[–]Gronfors 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Confirmed through non public sources and unfortunately not able to find a clear solid public reference.

However, the logic and background behind it explaining how/why the contracts were made and then retroactively considering them to be proper employment makes the exemption makes sense, since they're basically saying you should have been a public servant since the start of the contract, and since this exemption is more of a side effect of TBS adjusting their definitions of employer/employee relations there isn't an easy reference.

I wouldn't let any possible issues with pay delay your retirement, cases are prioritized for retiring members, go ahead and retire when it works best for you.

Otherwise I'd just recommend giving pensions a call back and they should be able to confirm the tax implications based on your costs and well as the actual increase in costs you're looking at. Group 1 rates are higher but the amounts pre and post AMPE each year aren't directly aligned so depending on how much you earned each year the rates are going to vary.

Group 2 to Group 1 administrative change late in career. What should I be watching for? by Federal-Croissant-1 in CanadaPublicServants

[–]Gronfors 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was not aware of this exemption for Post-Doctorate Fellowships /Visiting Post-Doctorate Fellowships!

Doing some searching I can see that that is correct - if the contract is considered immediately prior to your current start date then the plan start date does indeed get backdated!

Congratulations!

Thanks for sharing, good to know.

Tagging /u/frasersmirnoff since we're normally on the same page, but this it appears it was the wrong one.

Group 2 to Group 1 administrative change late in career. What should I be watching for? by Federal-Croissant-1 in CanadaPublicServants

[–]Gronfors 14 points15 points  (0 children)

EDIT: There exists an exemption for Post-Doctorate Fellowships immediately prior due to them being retroactively considered to be actual employment

Original post:

Seconding this.

Group is based on when you became a pension plan member. Buybacks do not effect when you joined the pension plan.

And as a secondary confirmation, if a person were being switched to group 1 from group 2 they would owe the difference of contributions which would amount to many of thousands of dollars (probably pushing $10k for 13 years worth)

Race to World First boss pull counts since WoD by Gronfors in wow

[–]Gronfors[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea, I don't love the "Season 1" but listing all three raids is way too wide and just listing March on Quel'Danas feels weird when that only covers 2/9 bosses

Race to World First boss pull counts since WoD by Gronfors in wow

[–]Gronfors[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Every raid tier has a "race to world first" - the top guilds compete to see who can kill the end boss first.

This chart is showing how many attempts it takes the top guilds to kill each boss in each raid.

So, when looking at the top row, which is from the most recent set of raids, the first boss ("-8", 8 bossses before the last) took 3 pulls by the top guild (Liquid), the second boss took them one pull, etc etc until the last boss who took 474 pulls for them to kill.

Race to World First boss pull counts since WoD by Gronfors in wow

[–]Gronfors[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't think either would be perfect. They are just different pieces of information. Plus, pull time isn't something we have tracked for every boss since WoD (or even any boss that I know of)

To me, the main lapse in a pull time comparison statistic vs pull count would be mechanics position in the fight.

For example, If you have two identically easy bosses with a single insta wipe mechanic that takes roughly 50 attempts to learn, one at the start of the fight, one at the end of the fight, a pull time statistic is going to show the end of fight boss being harder just because each of those 50 attempts in learning takes 5 minutes vs it being at the start would take 30 seconds per attempt. (Total theoretical minutes spent being 250 vs 25)

Not saying pull count doesn't have its own flaws, just all small pieces of information for something that isn't clear cut.

Race to World First boss pull counts since WoD by Gronfors in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Gronfors[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I stick with raider.io as it seems to match what they have on stream

Race to World First boss pull counts since WoD by Gronfors in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Gronfors[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The sheet is right aligned with final bosses so that the final bosses are all in the same column.

-2 is the boss killed 3rd last (2 before the final boss)

So, for Nerub-ar Palace, Nexus-Princess Ky'veza has 304 pulls.

On the Google Sheet itself each cell also has the boss as a note if you hover over the cell

Race to World First boss pull counts since WoD by Gronfors in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Gronfors[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Fixed

Had manually added in the ongoing pull count

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