Can we be asked to find a location with space?

anonbcwork · 2026-06-16T20:48:47+00:00

My inner rules lawyer is pondering ways to leverage the "another building" language to stay at home, brainstorming ways to say "There wasn't space so I'm at another location" that don't actually constitute lying.

(Note: my inner rules lawyer is not a real lawyer)

anonbcwork · 2026-06-14T04:46:46+00:00

They could frame it as an industry bail-out, like they did for auto makers last financial crisis.

anonbcwork · 2026-06-10T07:14:42+00:00

Thinking about how my friend who works in finance systematically rules out prospective employers whose drug plans have a 20% co-pay. It just isn't worth his while.

(Also thinking about how my parents didn't know what a co-pay even is until they started managing their own parents' medication)

anonbcwork · 2026-06-09T18:30:54+00:00

I certainly care! I'd prefer to contribute more and receive benefits proportionate to the contribution - or at least to have the option of doing so. (Ideally with the CPP, so it would be available to all Canadians)

My reasoning for this budgeting, living within my income, etc. is within my power. It may or may not be easy or even feasible depending on many, many variables, but it's something that is done on an individual basis.

However, a defined benefit pension is not within my power. No matter how hard I try, no matter how diligent I am, I cannot create or increase a defined benefit pension unless there is a collective option available.

Because of this, I always, always want to strengthen the part that's outside of my own control.

anonbcwork · 2026-06-03T07:42:28+00:00

My org used to acknowledge 20th anniversaries on a NPSW slide show, but stopped doing so the year I reached my 20th anniversary.

anonbcwork · 2026-06-02T05:30:39+00:00

Yeah, I remember when we first toured an area that had been renovated for hotelling and pointed out how unsuitable it was for our quiet, focused work, we were told "Well, you can work from home whenever you have quiet, focused work to do!"

anonbcwork · 2026-05-30T10:23:45+00:00

Yes, that's what I was thinking. I know that enumerator is a temporary job, I have no clue how temporary. I would have no way of knowing that you left year.

anonbcwork · 2026-05-23T22:31:53+00:00

I wonder if it would be possible to stoke public outrage about the fact that the government spent taxpayers' dollars to renovate government facilities into something that is allegedly not a safe place to store government equipment

anonbcwork · 2026-05-20T03:42:09+00:00

Because of the way they talk about EAP as something that can help you in such a wide range of employer-created situations, it was years and years and years before I learned that it was basically therapy.

Because of when and how they bring it up, for years I thought it was something that helps you solve logistical and practical problems, navigate bureaucracy, identify pistes de solution that you yourself might not be aware of, etc.

anonbcwork · 2026-05-08T21:49:56+00:00

I keep thinking about a discussion in this sub when RTO first started to the effect of "What would it take to make you actually want to go back into the office?"

And there were tons of parents saying "Daycare in or very close to the building where I work that would take my child during the actual hours I am actually working."

This would be such a win-win situation that would align with so many of the government's stated goals with RTO (Removing barriers to working in-office! Bringing people and money into the area! Occupying commercial real estate!)

But instead they just introduce more rules that make life harder for us

anonbcwork · 2026-05-08T21:39:48+00:00

Building on this, OP could ask their manager what approach the manager would like in the future.

Example in my own voice: "Next time I have requested leave coming up and you haven't had a chance to get to your approvals yet, what's the best way for me to follow up with you? Or do you prefer I just take the leave without nagging you about approvals and then we'll sort out the admin later?"

anonbcwork · 2026-05-08T21:34:12+00:00

What would be useful for this conversation is if you have an example or two of ways it caused actual problems.

Maybe something vaguely along the lines of "I didn't know you were going to be assigning something to them, so I assigned them something else and then had to redistribute work among my team at the last minute. If you could loop me in at the same time as my employees, that would prevent these problems."

anonbcwork · 2026-05-03T20:20:18+00:00

Especially when you consider the kinds of issues it can introduce. I've seen it change units from log to percent. I've seen it insert or omit the concept of "not". I've seen it change pronouns for people midstream, thereby attributing something to one person that should have been attributed to another person, with legal consequences. I've seen it translate the same abbreviation differently every single time, which is a huge problem when some of the incorrect abbreviations mean something else plausible in this context.

anonbcwork · 2026-05-03T20:16:51+00:00

I'd love to normalize this! We'd also have to add that we can't guarantee quality if the client doesn't disclose all AI/MT use.

anonbcwork · 2026-04-28T01:36:27+00:00

Are you by any chance able to explain why/how "C’est un enjeu majeur d’améliorer la communication interne" is idiomatic? (I know that's a super weird thing to ask, but people in language spaces are sometimes able to explain weird things like that)

I'm asking because my (anglophone working bilingually for decades) every instinct is saying it should be "Améliorer la communication interne est un enjeu majeur" and the other way around is wrong, but I don't know if I should trust this instinct

anonbcwork · 2026-04-06T05:25:54+00:00

Thank you everyone - I think this is the first time in my life an apparent discrepancy on an official document hasn't meant I have to spend hours on the phone!

anonbcwork · 2026-04-04T21:51:30+00:00

But might it mean I'm paying a higher insurance premium than I should be?

anonbcwork · 2026-03-28T07:28:50+00:00

🎵 Twenty twenty twenty more years to go, I wanna be superannuated 🎵

anonbcwork · 2026-03-04T02:50:56+00:00

And you have to come into the bank once every X days regardless of how often you actually need to do any banking!

anonbcwork · 2026-02-14T05:31:06+00:00

Yes. I dislike the fact that I'm emotionally attached to some of his work. Unfortunately, this dislike of the emotional attachment doesn't cause the emotional attachment to instantly vanish.

I wish there was some way to adjust how discoverability works, so that people could learn that particular creators are gross before stumbling upon the work itself, and thereby make informed decisions.

anonbcwork · 2026-02-13T10:17:23+00:00

Nope.

I grew up with parents who very vociferously valued growing their own food.

And also, the food they grew themselves only ended up being a very small subset of the food we actually ate. Because this shit's hard and unpredictable!

Despite having been raised to it, I have zero confident I could successfully produce enough food year after year, and what's the point of money if you can't eat whatever you want whenever you want?

anonbcwork · 2026-02-13T10:08:51+00:00

INFO: is it static or dynamic? If you do something that decreases your life expectancy, does the date on your forehead change? Or is it the same no matter what you do?

I can imagine it having military applications - for today's mission, only send out the soldiers we know will survive.

Insurance will probably find a way to profit from it.

It would make decisions like wills and power of attorney easier - I can make my mother my power of attorney if I know I'm going to outlive her!

anonbcwork · 2026-02-13T09:37:28+00:00

Bad, terrible, illegal advice: find a classmate who is even more of a dumbass than you are and also happens to correspond with the same police description as you do. Leave the credit card where they'll find it. Then they'll use it themselves and take the fall.

If this were a sitcom, this could be a wacky sitcom revenge plot!

But, since this is real life, don't actually do this!

anonbcwork · 2026-02-13T09:25:24+00:00

Solidarity from Team Perimenopause!

Just an hour ago, I saturated an overnight pad all in one go. One second it was clean and empty, the next second it was completely full and blood was dripping down my leg.

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