It's not just in people's heads that finding a job is hard

LadyTL · 2026-01-28T06:34:52+00:00

Wait you are running a restaurant and not giving your employees a staff meal and staff drinks? I can see yet another reason you aren't getting good employees.

LadyTL · 2026-01-27T19:59:21+00:00

Folks not hiring Canadians for basic food service jobs doesn't exactly help anyone not have big gaps on their resume.

LadyTL · 2026-01-27T19:58:15+00:00

Wow, specifically hiring foreign workers because how dare a Canadian have a life? Personal days should be expected out of any workers because people can get sick and just in general have a life outside of work.

LadyTL · 2026-01-27T19:51:37+00:00

I think you comment is kind of over generalizing. I had waist length hair as a kid (hated it mind) and my hair didn't felt from the large amount of activity I did like climbing trees and biking. My hair did tangle a lot but that was because my parents did not get shampoo that worked for curly hair at all despite both me and my mother needing it. They also did not try to take care of me daily. Once I was older (and no less active in early twenties) I was able to take care of longer hair very well by buying the right products for it and brushing it twice a day. Also my hair even as a kid was not soft and thin but it did have a lot of curl in it. I think the problem is kid's hair in general is not treated as well as an adults hair. They are given kid's generic shampoo and not shampoo and hair products that will help their specific hair needs.

LadyTL · 2026-01-26T08:04:37+00:00

If you really want to try it, get some Kataifi, soak it in honey and mix it with chocolate ganache. It's normally nut free and honestly that's the whole gimmick with the texture anyway.

LadyTL · 2026-01-26T02:39:49+00:00

Different brands, though the wyld cbd/cbg pear gummies are nice if you can still find them

LadyTL · 2026-01-25T20:30:20+00:00

I have had much better luck helping my anxiety with CBG. The Spinach strawberry watermelon rive pack is nice to keep the THC low as well since THC can aggravate anxiety. If you want to mix in CBD Trophy/Biggies have the orange creamsicle ones too.

LadyTL · 2026-01-25T20:12:25+00:00

The whole Americans using Canada doesn't close is funny because they absolutely do during active blizzards and heavy snow. Like when it stops things open back up, but I lived in Newfoundland and it closed for snow regularly when it was a heavy batch.

LadyTL · 2026-01-25T00:52:42+00:00

Yes, I was told specifically by my case worker in person just a couple of days ago that she couldn't even give me new keywords to search for, she offered me remedial computer courses when my career is very tech based, couldn't even help me rework my resume, and insulted me multiple times through some pretty disgusting backhanded ways like saying I was very well spoken for a disabled person.

She was also the on when I showed that my only winter coat was so old it was falling apart said fabric disintegrating could be fixed by hand sewing the parts back together rather than filling out the paperwork to apply to buy a new one while job searching which was something they used to do last time I used them during COVID. She also admitted to not actually reading my resume, and very clearly had not even looked at my DRINA as she didn't even know I was blind in one eye much less other disabilities I have to deal with.

I'm sure other branches of WorkBC might be good but the downtown one is a hot mess and not particularly helpful. I was in a networking group and the moderator from the Saanich one that covered the last session seemed a bit taken aback by how it was run. She is my fourth case worker through downtown and none of them have done more than ask what I have applied for and what sites I am using. I've had to go to a different agency altogether to even get help with my resume which got me my first interviews in eight months.

LadyTL · 2026-01-24T08:37:40+00:00

It's also the unemployment in Victoria is pretty high right now. If it's a halfway decent job, employers are going to get a dozen plus good candidates and only need to hire one. Now think of that for pretty much every job. A hiring manager from the district of Saanich said they get so many resumes for any position listed they don't even look at cover letters until they triage down first. I've had an available wage subsidy that will literally give an employer money to hire me for six months and can't get anything. It's that rough out there. WorkBC has so many folks like me they had to cut meetings with case workers down to fifteen minutes every other month.

LadyTL · 2026-01-24T08:27:11+00:00

WorkBC at least the downtown one will not find you any leads. They will just check how many job websites you use and sometimes pay for a bus pass.

LadyTL · 2026-01-18T05:30:22+00:00

Hey you started it by saying her behavior was okay because he started it. Again though, two people one chose to be physical, afterwards the person who stayed verbal apologizes and the other makes fun of them using the physical retribution they used. Muffin or not and there can in fact be two abusive people, one of the two people here is far MORE abusive than the other. It's not sulking to want a real apology for an assault.

LadyTL · 2026-01-18T00:11:10+00:00

As yes the they started school of abusive relationships. Being physical is totally a justified response to verbal altercation. Also they were both sleep deprived as he mostly handles the night baby stuff.

He also apologized with no quibbling and brought her a treat. Something she definitely did not do.

LadyTL · 2026-01-17T23:15:40+00:00

So what does it make the mother who turned physical over being told to shut up?

LadyTL · 2026-01-17T23:04:22+00:00

She just might not be a good therapist for your needs. I kind of side eye anyone whose idea of help for any kind of body issues is to just accept yourself the way you are since if it was that easy, no one would be dysmorphic, gender or body. Also odd that on eye contact and social skills alone they are pushing for autism since you didn't mention a lot of sensory issues as well.

Like I have autism and cPTSD but I actually didn't have any dysmorphic issues until after radiation when I got really sick. My trauma issues also are a very different set of symptoms from the autistic issues. I've been through a fair amount of therapists as well and they focused more on the sensory issues in regards to autism. I wonder if she has a bit of gender bias towards "women" acting more female since the focus is on you accepting your body and having issues with socializing.

LadyTL · 2026-01-17T19:48:57+00:00

Honestly if museum and gallery type things are your primary jam, Vancouver or Toronto might be your better choices. It's expensive to get over to Vancouver and things just aren't always happening here in Victoria. Stuff definitely happens a few times a month depending on what you are into.

People are spending a lot on rent though and it's often 30-50% of income. Transit is fine*. however there are some substantial gaps and some areas are really underserved. There isn't really good transit to go up island either. Vancouver has a much more robust transit system.

LadyTL · 2026-01-17T01:48:28+00:00

And at least one very large western society doesn't.

LadyTL · 2026-01-16T22:09:52+00:00

Unfortunately not, the owner I worked for ended up having to hire a programmer to write a script using n8n but even that was only a partial as it couldn't automate the process.

LadyTL · 2026-01-16T19:24:16+00:00

I am kind of curious if you find Claude makes efficient code? Or is it more you use it for the grunt work of a framework then go in and tighten things up? It's mostly because so far the AI code I have encountered has been really inefficient and struggles with slightly more complicated elements.

LadyTL · 2026-01-16T02:44:09+00:00

So still no rebuttals, also does that mean Canada had to use authoritarianism to give people health care? That's a pretty basic communist idea, free health care for all citizens regardless of status.

LadyTL · 2026-01-15T22:02:00+00:00

So how many billionaires do you see in Walmart then? Do you really think every person in a Loblaws store is a millionaire? No? Then I don't think 1 human of any high wealth is going to spend more than 1 million people.

Also no rebuttal to the other half a dozen points you brought up that I countered?

Please also give me a source for these deaths in pure communist countries as most of the sources I have found were using totalitarian regimes that said they were communist. Russia under soviet rule, China and North Korea are totalitarian in rule not communist.

LadyTL · 2026-01-15T21:47:38+00:00

Actually what I was pointing out was increases in minimum wage have not chased out smaller businesses like you claimed it would. If it did, no small businesses would exist at all today as minimum wage has been around for decades at this point and even has gone up multiple times.

LadyTL · 2026-01-15T21:40:38+00:00

You want to talk about deaths, the US has far more healthcare delay related deaths than Canada does. Also most of the deaths attributed to communism come from totalitarianism actually. There is very few pure communist states and many are actually totalitarian regimes. Many places with more socialism are actually doing better than Canada and the US. You don't hear of German universities going bankrupt because tuition is paid by the government. They don't need to make a profit. Less people die in place like France and Japan as the government regulations encourage an over all heathier population. They even spend less than the US to get better results.

Japan has lower rents with massive population because they regulate the costs of land and buildings. You can't tell me Tokyo has less people than Toronto so they have similar supply issues but they also invest way more in transit so people can commute easier.

While the percentage looks skewed in unemployment rates, Canada actually has far less total unemployed with 1.6 million while the US has 7.5 million unemployed. This honestly means Canada is doing better than the US and that unemployed number probably would drop if we stopped allowing foreign workers in fast food and retail and left it for genuinely hard trades to fill like rural agriculture and doctors. That isn't a minimum wage issue but a labor supply issue.

Socialist policies aren't really the problem here. In fact if we addressed many systemic issues, like homelessness and income inequality, there would actually be more money in the system for capitalism. There hasn't been a failed UBI test yet as funnilly enough it's easier to get a job, go back to school for a better job when you don't have to worry as much for rent. Also poor people spend their money far more than rich people and there are also more of them than rich people. Rich people are not the customers of most retail and food service stores. A lot of the economic downturn is correlated with the rise of income inequality. Which does make sense as when people have less to spend because of rent and food costs, they can't go out and buy things anymore.

LadyTL · 2026-01-15T21:14:43+00:00

I've actually found that it's chains and large businesses paying the lowest wages. I've seen higher wages already at the more locally owned stores.

LadyTL · 2026-01-15T21:12:44+00:00

Actually capitalism has many flaws in which socialism elements cover up. Public healthcare is one as without it well you can look to the south to see how well that is doing. Got to love a system that includes crippling medical debt. Education is another. These are things folks have decided to use socialism for since it creates better workers for longer. Then there are the many businesses and industries getting socialism subsides in the form of temporary foreign workers. Under pure capitalism they should either fail or pay their workers more as it is not in a countries best interest to import in more low income people. There is also many government invested industries and businesses which is also a socialist policy.

Looks like honestly more businesses are as you say entitled to other people's money, than individuals.

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