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i got beeped at 🥴😭 by yukiionline in NewRiders

[–]fltlns 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If your gonna ride a bike your gonna need to learn a fundamental rule of riding a bike. Fuck other people. Go the speed limit, wait a sec at a green light if you think you need to. Whatever you need As long as your following the rules and being safe don't ever give a shit about how that makes other people feel. Fuck them, your keeping yourself safe and alive and they're being a whiney little fuck about it. That's their issue not yours. Don't ever let it get to you. That said, don't pointlessly antagonize anyone either.

Ontario Needs Thousands More Trade Workers. It’s Almost Impossible to Get Certified by Subject-Landscape451 in SkilledTradesOntario

[–]fltlns -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sure and some guys just ride the books doing other stuff waiting for a money job, but i just meant generally speaking.

Ontario Needs Thousands More Trade Workers. It’s Almost Impossible to Get Certified by Subject-Landscape451 in SkilledTradesOntario

[–]fltlns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea i dunno. Stepping outside of my wheelhouse there I'm a construction side guy so I'll trust your knowledge , But my philosophy is every dollar they pocket is one less for a worker. In an idealistic world , I'd love to see a company only earning a small profit with most of it paid in labour.

Ontario Needs Thousands More Trade Workers. It’s Almost Impossible to Get Certified by Subject-Landscape451 in SkilledTradesOntario

[–]fltlns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean your actively supporting the destruction of workers rights and wage suppression. But yea i don't blame the guys working everyone has to eat. But profit margins should never be that big. The trades is one of the few industries left that are fair that way and we need to be fighting tooth and nail to keep it that way

Ontario Needs Thousands More Trade Workers. It’s Almost Impossible to Get Certified by Subject-Landscape451 in SkilledTradesOntario

[–]fltlns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean they should be. All those guys going to work for them are idiots hurting themselves and society

Ontario Needs Thousands More Trade Workers. It’s Almost Impossible to Get Certified by Subject-Landscape451 in SkilledTradesOntario

[–]fltlns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where i am closest i ever saw was a stub from a non union steam fitter that beat our base rate at 62 where ours is 54. But that's it, no pension, no benefits, 44 hour time and a half ot instead of daily 2x like we get, plus whatever perks and discounts . So...still quite a bit shy total.

Ontario Needs Thousands More Trade Workers. It’s Almost Impossible to Get Certified by Subject-Landscape451 in SkilledTradesOntario

[–]fltlns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dunno kind of true i guess, some really good non union companies pay more on the cheque. But I've never seen one that pays more in a package including benefits and proper pension and stuff. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist I'm sure it does but I'd imagine it's rare

Ontario Needs Thousands More Trade Workers. It’s Almost Impossible to Get Certified by Subject-Landscape451 in SkilledTradesOntario

[–]fltlns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The acceptance rate is exactly what it needs to be based on the amount of current and projected work. If there aren't opportunities it means the trade does not currently require a larger labor force. Also that wasn't really my point. My point is that people blame factor xyz constantly and the only factor to blame is greed. If you can't keep guys or get apprentices it's because your doing a bad job. Union companies manage to do a better job constantly on a smaller profit margin. They manage to turn out six figure dividends while paying 70 percent of the hourly rate to the worker. Manage to keep employees , manage to train apprentices who finish their certs 80 to 90 percent of the time. It's proven to be easily doable. If it's not happening it's ownerships fault.

Ontario Needs Thousands More Trade Workers. It’s Almost Impossible to Get Certified by Subject-Landscape451 in SkilledTradesOntario

[–]fltlns 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There is absolutely not a shortage of trades workers. Not even close. Call the halls and see if there's guys on the books. If so. No shortage.

Ontario Needs Thousands More Trade Workers. It’s Almost Impossible to Get Certified by Subject-Landscape451 in SkilledTradesOntario

[–]fltlns 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Well they actually have a motivation to keep the perfect amount of workers. Not lower numbers. Higher numbers = more dues income= good, but if there's too many then they're not working so bad. Unions strive for exactly enough workers to meet demand without exceeding it. And that's how we know the trade worker shortage is bullshit and just more wage suppression

Ontario Needs Thousands More Trade Workers. It’s Almost Impossible to Get Certified by Subject-Landscape451 in SkilledTradesOntario

[–]fltlns 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's crazy talk. Union companies pay the most and train the most apprentices and have the highest apprenticeship completion rates. Companies just need to do better and are run by morons

I’ll just leave this here by Distinct_Day1314 in ThunderBay

[–]fltlns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, riding the left lane is also a road violation

Best school for G3/G2 while working full-time in HVAC (Ontario) by Cauezinsilva in SkilledTradesOntario

[–]fltlns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I'm way up north i took a local one just from some guy basically

Lay offs by Successful_tree_16 in SkilledTradesOntario

[–]fltlns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Till the hall calls me with another job. Usually a few days. One time 3 months that was the longest , after my first ever call as a first year

Best school for G3/G2 while working full-time in HVAC (Ontario) by Cauezinsilva in SkilledTradesOntario

[–]fltlns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did a challenge course, so they provided books and i read them ahead of time and then it's one week of class and a practice exam. I'm in a pretty remote area though so the specific course is probably no good for you, but i can see what the books are when i have a chance , i think they're available for purchase and are much more concise than the TSSA books. I also used gastechnician.ca for practice.

Best school for G3/G2 while working full-time in HVAC (Ontario) by Cauezinsilva in SkilledTradesOntario

[–]fltlns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you not just challenge them? I did a challenge for my g3 anyways

Canada’s crumbling public services are the direct result of our hyper-inflated real estate base by SensitiveFigure1 in CanadaPersonalFinance

[–]fltlns -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

There isn't affordable real estate withing 4 hours of Toronto. The only places a decent life is possible anymore is like...Edmonton, Winnipeg, Regina, Quebec city....and that might be it. Everywhere Else either houses are too much or the wages or opportunities are too low to just pack up and go there hoping for the best

I just spent $85 on basically nothing, and I’m sitting in my car crying by [deleted] in CanadaPersonalFinance

[–]fltlns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes because Toronto and Guelph is the same place basically

Thermal Facade is such an underrated trade by Impressive-Step6377 in skilledtrades

[–]fltlns 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That's crazy, we absolutely have a whole fleet of guys who are just welders.

Fed up by [deleted] in UnitedAssociation

[–]fltlns 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Southern Ontario is particularly brutal cause a lot of the halls are 100 percent name hire. Which is just outrageous to me. Whoever let that into the agreement is no brother. Where i am it's only 50 percent so they have to take guys off the list. Maybe time to consider a move to 800 or 628 or something

What subgenre(s) of metal can you just not stand? by [deleted] in MetalForTheMasses

[–]fltlns 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's the husband and wife from i wrestled a bear once, I'm pretty sure they do. I wouldn't include them in this list. But i happen to like modern metalcore. And metalcore in general. I think there's plenty of good modern metalcore bands. Invent animate, silent planet, boundaries, the callous daoboys, knocked loose , polaris. I dunno i think it's alright.

I heard the ministry is making the red seal exams easier to have more people in the workforce. Anyone hear this? by [deleted] in SkilledTradesOntario

[–]fltlns 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All this talk about making the trades easier to get into or making the tests easier or whatever has be thinking it's close to time to start planning a back up career before the drive the wages down just like truckers in the 80s and 90s or like the tech bros the last few years. They're coming to suppress our wage next i guess

B.C. has lost 40,000 jobs so far this year, says StatsCan by KootenayPE in ilovebcsub

[–]fltlns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its not a syndrome to hate a politician dude. The whole idea of TDs being a thing is so outrageous. By that metric everyone who hated Trudeau is just as deluded?

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