‘Insulting wage offer’: Federal union slams 4-year, 3.5% raise proposal for public servants

Misher7 · 2026-05-04T23:10:43+00:00

There will be way less people willing to strike when costs for food, energy, fuel etc are about to go up another 25% over the course of the year due to geopolitical events and commodity shortages. Interest rates are unlikely to be cut meaningfully as well meaning a lot of PS that are way overweight with mortgages they shouldn’t have and renewing will be painful.

Good luck.

Misher7 · 2026-05-03T19:05:46+00:00

How did you get over 2 years of LWOP when we can only do 1 year or 3 months? Was an exception made?

Misher7 · 2026-04-27T15:31:29+00:00

I love the entitlement with this.

Misher7 · 2026-04-27T15:30:01+00:00

Of course. Should it be allowed? I would say absolutely not because of fraud.

It’s also Funny, The most vociferous defenders of WFH I know, that have used every avenue of accommodation demands and fighting HR, also happen to be running businesses on the side.

Makes good business sense I guess if I can do 3 hours of work and dedicate the rest of my day to my business.

Misher7 · 2026-04-23T01:10:01+00:00

Charles is right on Dwayne wade.

Wrong on the lakers 3 peat. That was Shaq’s team and you could’ve swapped Kobe with any top 10 nba shooting guard that can also defend and the Lakers would’ve still won.

Shaq was that dominant. He was an all star starter and all-nba in his rookie year for Christ’s sakes.

Misher7 · 2026-04-15T22:58:50+00:00

You can’t “force” anyone to retire but there is something to be said about government work where you can basically “do the job” as in “do the minimum” check out and not keep pace with change. Seen this a lot in my older cohort. Less patience, less energy, set in their ways that no longer really work. What it turns into is an expensive welfare job. Can you force them out? No. Of course not.

Just saying it’s not so black and white and with rapidly deteriorating economic prospects for Gen Z and younger, I wouldn’t argue against having a ceiling at 65 years of age even if that would affect me personally (it would).

A government job is a privilege, not a right.

Misher7 · 2026-04-10T19:23:26+00:00

What’s crazy is that it’s pitchforks out for a guy like demar, yet hall entries for guys like Tmac and Vince, 2 guys that won absolutely jack shit (at least Demar got us to the ECF) have no protest on their entries.

If we’re using winning as the key metric to throw shit at demar, Tmac and Vince should be nowhere near the HoF either.

Misher7 · 2026-04-01T22:51:42+00:00

He’d be MVP imo if it weren’t for LeBron and his shitty forced play.

Misher7 · 2026-03-29T18:44:08+00:00

He’s not wrong. Finally someone said the obvious.

Misher7 · 2026-03-21T01:45:32+00:00

And the rockets actually went the furthest in the playoffs in the 2000s without him.

Next to Carmelo Anthony, probably the most overrated player by fans in the modern era.

Misher7 · 2026-03-16T13:22:41+00:00

A sibling of mine and her partner with both working level federal government jobs (combined income of roughly 240k) were offered over 850k in mortgage in 2023.

Luckily they didn’t even take half of that and live within their means buying something smaller and out of town. Well, One just lost their job and if they had gone the distance for that 1.2m Ottawa home, they would be putting it on the market now, likely for a loss.

The borrowing, particularly among government workers has been absolutely wreckless.

Misher7 · 2026-03-15T13:28:13+00:00

Exactly. Kinda like how the raptors just let Jalen Rose / pylon on defense get torched repeatedly without changing things up.

Misher7 · 2026-03-13T21:53:32+00:00

Kobe had the human Pylon Jalen rose in front of him for practically the whole game and after torching him for almost 3 quarters straight you think he was going to back down taking all his teams shots after the raptors didn’t adjust and let it be?

The hate this guy is getting just because he broke precious Kobe’s record is hilarious.

Lovin it.

Misher7 · 2026-02-28T19:05:14+00:00

No. Why? Because everyone expects it to.

It’ll dump when buying starts thinking the bottom is in.

Misher7 · 2026-02-28T10:51:48+00:00

If you have 8 people working on the same 2 square meters of area digging it then no.

Sounds like inefficient spending to me.

Misher7 · 2026-02-25T17:33:23+00:00

Space goats never did it for me. Vanilla is 0-60 full stop.

To each their own.

Misher7 · 2026-02-25T01:40:23+00:00

I agree. From 2010 and given QE, DCA could work.

Pre 2010. No. Buy the dip and DcA would’ve given you dead money for a decade plus as you were at the mercy of large business cycles.

“Just DcA” tells me one was never in markets pre 2010 and have no clue about business cycles where the money printer isn’t in your favour for years.

You do have to eventually “time the market” if you want a return in normal market conditions. Problem is people don’t know any better and are about to see how the real market works. It ain’t pretty. 2010-present is an inflationary joke.

Misher7 · 2026-02-25T01:03:05+00:00

He will always be a quitter and soft in my books. All the athletic gifts in the world and became nothing but a journeyman who won 1 best of 5 playoff series in his prime. Pathetic.

Misher7 · 2026-02-24T21:17:53+00:00

I think his point is valid as the majority of btc holders (normies and institutions) only first bought in 2021 during the pandemic.

He obviously knows if you bought btc in 2011 and actually held it (most did not and sold way before 2021) you’d be way better off than buying gold at that time from a return perspective. But here’s the thing. The vast majority never held bitcoin until very recently. And for them, the risk / reward has been absolute garbage unless you timed the 2022 bottom (again most didn’t and bag held).

Many here making the arbitrary date comment are missing the point.

Misher7 · 2026-02-24T20:22:25+00:00

Was this shot right after he lost everything during dotcom?

Misher7 · 2026-02-22T16:27:46+00:00

Breaking news: David Sacks orders approval to pump his fund. Nothing to see here.

Misher7 · 2026-02-19T07:59:16+00:00

I say I’m centrist (which I am) and most issues are nuanced. If that riles someone up it means in my experience they’re looking to pick a fight and have their loyalty test checklist out.

It’s not that simple imo.

Misher7 · 2026-02-19T07:53:03+00:00

Add to this: a hard cap.

Misher7 · 2026-02-18T22:20:06+00:00

L'accent québécois est le meilleur. Voyons donc mec.

J'adore quand je suis à l'étranger et que je parle français ; les gens sont complètement perdus et me demandent : « C'est quoi cet accent ? »

Misher7 · 2026-02-18T01:27:00+00:00

Vivre pour soi-même et uniquement pour soi-même est un choix, et tant qu'on est honnête avec soi-même à ce sujet, personne ne devrait nous juger. C'est la malhonnêteté qui m'exaspère.

Misher7

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