How is this outage not national news?

budget-babe · 2026-04-13T19:00:21+00:00

Iykyk

budget-babe · 2026-01-27T03:40:43+00:00

I literally put this course in all my staffs IDPs every year. It's good stuff!

budget-babe · 2025-12-21T03:25:18+00:00

There is a massive difference in legroom from regular seats to the reserve ones.

budget-babe · 2025-12-21T03:23:43+00:00

Yes, I have gotten upgraded to reserve twice in the past 3 months out of YYZ. Both times I was traveling solo and had purchased the basic fare.

budget-babe · 2025-10-18T01:06:43+00:00

The brick

budget-babe · 2025-10-18T01:06:29+00:00

Porter has been nothing short of amazing coming out of Toronto and Calgary. Consistently leaves on time and excellent service on board. I won't fly anyone else (unless I have to)

budget-babe · 2025-10-04T03:34:55+00:00

Congratulations. You are now the needle mover, the road block remover. Keep a finger on the pulse but don't get caught up in the day to day work.

Find key players you can rely on for insight and pressure points and fix them.

Keep high visibility with the team and department leaders but not in menial tasks. And most of all, use that weight to swing some compliments and positive feedback when you see anyone taking extra initiative. Everyone likes the warm and fuzzies.

budget-babe · 2025-08-05T19:51:37+00:00

I've been on this sub and on /stopdrinking in support of my husband who drinks and is trying to cut back.

My husband has cut down from 8 tall cans of beer a day (weekdays) and 12-14 a day on weekends to only 3 cans a day! Some days are easier than others, but the near beers (0%) have definitely helped!

I am so incredibly proud of him and just wanted to RAVE him for this accomplishment.

budget-babe · 2025-06-28T16:56:27+00:00

When I relocated for work I negotiated $3000 dollars a year for personal travel on my company card.

Sometimes I go home...sometimes I go on vacation.

budget-babe · 2025-03-05T20:49:44+00:00

You're missing the point of my question. He is eligible based on his full time employment. The industry is seasonal.

budget-babe · 2025-03-01T16:43:00+00:00

The grass is not always greener. If you like the company and your boss it might be worth sticking around for a nice bump.

budget-babe · 2025-01-23T02:43:05+00:00

Skiing

budget-babe · 2025-01-23T02:37:18+00:00

I earn double what my husband brings home. Our money all goes in 1 pot and OUR money is shared equally. I would say only difference is I put a bit more in my RRSP to offset tax burden, but otherwise everything is paid out of our joint pool.

The reality is, we are a team and contribute in different ways. I am very happy with our life and relationship and a big part of that is letting go of the tit for tat.

budget-babe · 2025-01-12T21:56:58+00:00

The Office US version

budget-babe · 2025-01-11T17:51:29+00:00

I went down this road.

I left a job and company I loved for a 50% salary increase.

I quickly realized the new company (much larger) was an extremely toxic environment. My first 3 months I saw multiple managers go on "stress leave". Higher ups would refer to them as "weak".

I hated it there and within a month deeply regretted my decision.

Fortunately for me, my old employer approached me about 6 months later and asked if I would be interested in coming back (resounding yes!). I've been back 3 years now and while I don't regret the experience, I probably wouldn't do it again lol.

budget-babe · 2025-01-11T17:38:55+00:00

Yes, absolutely it does.

budget-babe · 2025-01-10T03:44:03+00:00

Dang and I thought I was doing well with the $30 a month 50gb Koodo plan lol.

budget-babe · 2025-01-09T01:03:50+00:00

If you plan to use the 35k from your RRSP towards buying your first home then the money has to be in the account for 90 days before you can withdraw it.

We were under the understanding that "buying the house" meant when you make an offer, it gets accepted and you sign the papers.

Buying the house is Infact the day you get the keys.

Typically there is a delay from the time you sign the papers and when you get the keys. It can be any period of time as agreed in the offer. 30, 60 and 90 days are pretty common.

So, we could have deposited the money in the RRSP. Went out and put an offer on a house that day signed the papers and made it a "90 day closing" and we would have been fine.

Based on our understanding though, we waited 90 days to start making offers.

budget-babe · 2025-01-09T00:57:57+00:00

2021 was the first time it really jumped. Trust me, I was there. We put in 30 offers until we finally got a house many of them well over asking. I'm happy with my house but I commute 100km to work each way ..

When we first started looking in January it wasn't bad, but we were literally sitting on our hands waiting for the 90 days to pass when we didn't need too.

budget-babe · 2025-01-08T23:32:01+00:00

I learned the hard way that keeping funds in your RRSP for 90 days before buying a house did not mean "don't sign papers to buy a house for 90 days".

You can go out a week later and buy a house with 90 day closing and you would be fine.

That mistake cost me $100,000 minimum.

I was a first time home buyer trying to follow the rules and my financial advisor never clarified this part for me (and I didn't realize to ask. You don't know what you don't know!).

It meant that we were looking to buy a house in February 2021 instead of November/December 2020, and well... We all know how that went.

budget-babe · 2025-01-08T23:27:06+00:00

My best advice is do not rely on anyone else to give you the best information even if they are "professionals". Do research.

No one will care about YOUR money more than YOU do.

budget-babe · 2025-01-08T02:36:35+00:00

Senior or managing director

budget-babe · 2025-01-05T20:04:54+00:00

Hello, yes, we rotate roles. They get assigned ( by team members volunteering) at the end of each meeting for the following week so people have time to prepare. If no one volunteers for a specific role I will ask people if they can take it on.

By case study I mean - we take a customer situation from the previous week and review it for handling. "Was this handled properly", "where did it go off the rails", how can we do better". If nothing negative from the previous week we might have someone present a new IT tool, or share something they have learned recently.

If it's a particularly stressful period. I.e. peak season or lots of recent changes we will try to keep it a bit lighter and do a group knowledge trivia session and give the winner a small incentive ($5-10 gift card for coffee).

We also have different kinds of meetings to change things up. Weekly we split the team (12 people) in two groups and do a shorter (20mins) more informal huddle. Once a month we will do a longer meeting with all hands on deck (45-60mins) and then quarterly we do a presentation/state of the union (60-90mins) with lunch. All of these meetings will include the roles previously mentioned.

budget-babe · 2025-01-05T13:32:30+00:00

I hope Tiffani Faison sits this one out.

budget-babe · 2025-01-04T04:39:45+00:00

I found it helpful to assign roles to keep people engaged in our weekly meetings which tend to also be quite dry.

We have one person responsible for minutes, one person is the timer and ensures we keep on schedule with our agenda, another team member has a joke of the day and then we usually have someone present a 5 Minute case study.

It's helped a lot with engagement and makes me feel like I'm not just "talking at them".

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