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FlyingCowOfDoom posted:Where do you work and are they hiring? Oh man.
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hey guys CANADA
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FlyingCowOfDoom posted:Where do you work and are they hiring? You have the right to work because freedom
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May 30, 2018 16:03
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CLAM DOWN posted:Lol I get 30 sick days a year, 3 weeks vacation (initially then 4 weeks after 4 years here) plus 3 PTO days a quarter along with the 12 stat holidays, 7.25h work days, and a pension 5 weeks vacation over here, pension, health insurance, public transportation contribution that exceeds the cost of my monthly ticket, a card that allows me free access to almost every gym, sauna and other sport activity, lunch vouchers 
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May 30, 2018 16:15
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FlyingCowOfDoom posted:Where do you work and are they hiring? We actually are hiring!!
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May 30, 2018 16:15
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CLAM DOWN posted:We actually are hiring!! So what I'm hearing is start considering a move to Vancouver.
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May 30, 2018 16:19
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Yea but you cant even afford a house in your own city so screw that Edit: but the sushi in Vancouver is really good so that kind of makes it worth it
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May 30, 2018 16:20
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ChubbyThePhat posted:So what I'm hearing is start considering a move to Vancouver. Unless you work in TV, do not move to Vancouver.
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May 30, 2018 16:21
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Ha. I can't afford a house anywhere until my student debt goes away and I get a reasonable salary 
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May 30, 2018 16:22
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ChubbyThePhat posted:Ha. I can't afford a house anywhere until my student debt goes away and I get a reasonable salary fuckin same. im 25 now and ill be lucky if i can buy a house any time in the next ~10-15 years
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May 30, 2018 16:25
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Sepist posted:Yea but you cant even afford a house in your own city so screw that You don't need to buy a house. No one does. They haven't even built new houses in the city in a while. The majority of this city rents and doesn't live in the actual "city of vancouver", we have a good transit system for commuting from neighbouring cities/suburbs. So I have a pretty nice place that I can easily afford, and can easily commute via our excellent and cheap skytrain system.
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May 30, 2018 16:26
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I get 4 PTO days a year and a week of vacation after 12 months. But I don't have to live in Canada, so... 
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May 30, 2018 16:27
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Sepist posted:Sometimes I respond to a slack message and bill for it. Not often but I do Once upon a time the MSP that ownership inflicted on me billed me 15 minutes for reading an email on Sunday. Just reading it. No action. Yeah, that's a 5 figure invoice that's not getting paid without removing the blatant fraud. They also sat on a request to "please put together a plan for upgrading our WAPs" for four months, then billed 5 hours at their top rate for two people having a meeting and deciding maybe we should update our WAPs. Actually planning the upgrade was a separate line item. Not signing invoices pays as much as signing them assholes.
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May 30, 2018 16:28
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Krispy Wafer posted:4 PTO days a year and a week of vacation after 12 months What the gently caress
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May 30, 2018 16:31
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mllaneza posted:Once upon a time the MSP that ownership inflicted on me billed me 15 minutes for reading an email on Sunday. Just reading it. No action. As an employee I was notorious for not billing for answering emails. Projects they didnt mind but T&M I always ground their gears. Why would a WAP upgrade plan not count as pre-sales? That kind of stuff if typically a non-billable item. Even in a project, internal meetings shouldn't be billable.
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May 30, 2018 16:32
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CLAM DOWN posted:What the gently caress Welcome to America.
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May 30, 2018 16:34
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Krispy Wafer posted:I get 4 PTO days a year and a week of vacation after 12 months. But I don't have to live in Canada, so... And you have FREEEEDOOOMMM. Can't beat that.
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May 30, 2018 16:35
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Krispy Wafer posted:I get 4 PTO days a year and a week of vacation after 12 months. 
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May 30, 2018 16:36
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Volguus posted:And you have FREEEEDOOOMMM. Can't beat that. I make at least 25% more than my Canadian counterparts and my insurance is top notch...but yeah. I'd take the extra PTO and vacation in a heartbeat.
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May 30, 2018 16:37
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ChubbyThePhat posted:Ha. I can't afford a house anywhere until my student debt goes away and I get a reasonable salary Sprechensiesexy posted:5 weeks vacation over here, pension, health insurance, public transportation contribution that exceeds the cost of my monthly ticket, a card that allows me free access to almost every gym, sauna and other sport activity, lunch vouchers for me; 5 weeks vacation. Health insurance, pension, Commute is covered by km (they offer a ov chip card, but I commute by bike so I opted for free extra money) A discount on almost every gym. free lunch. Bike plan.
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May 30, 2018 16:39
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I would really really like to commute by bike. I hate anyone that can do it
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May 30, 2018 16:42
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GreenNight posted:Welcome to America. My last job had a few American companies under the same umbrella, and they all got WAY more than that and a way better deal. I'm not making GBS threads on America in general (in this case), that goon has a terrible job/employer and should get to job hunting.
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May 30, 2018 16:43
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I can walk or commute by bike, but there is a free bus that takes a little less time when it's all said and done. My commute is usually 12-15 mins. It's awesome. I would still consider moving to Canada. The wife has visited Vancouver and she loved it, we'll be there for a couple of days in August. I think I'd rather be near the Canadian Rockies, but maybe one day. Our families are already pissed we live far enough away from them. We'd probably get disowned if we left the country.
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May 30, 2018 16:45
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Vancouver was great, Montreal was amazing. I would move to Montreal if I wasn't locked to long island by refusing to leave my friends behind.
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May 30, 2018 16:47
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Commuting by bike is so chill. It takes me 20 minutes to get to work. But an hour and a half to get home after work. When it's sunny out. It's so nice to just go on a scenic route
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May 30, 2018 16:48
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Anything else less than two weeks PTO in a professional setting in is an indication that something is really wrong and would give me pause about accepting a position there. Krispy is getting hosed, even with good insurance.
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May 30, 2018 16:49
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Sefal posted:Commuting by bike is so chill. It takes me 20 minutes to get to work. But an hour and a half to get home after work. When it's sunny out. It's so nice to just go on a scenic route That is one thing I jealous of about non-texas places. If I road my bike home from work I would melt.
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May 30, 2018 16:50
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NeuralSpark posted:Anything else less than two weeks PTO in a professional setting in is an indication that something is really wrong and would give me pause about accepting a position there. Krispy is getting hosed, even with good insurance. Oh I know. I think it's because I'm hourly versus salary. It's a very odd thing and I'm not sure I would have stayed through my contractor phase had I realized this was what I was looking forward to. I'm giving it a year because it's giving me lots of training opportunities, but when I do my exit interview I'm making very clear exactly why this job sucks.
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May 30, 2018 16:53
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Sickening posted:That is one thing I jealous of about non-texas places. If I road my bike home from work I would melt. So much this. My last job was a quick 5 minute drive that could have easily been biked. In Houston though? Yea gently caress that.
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May 30, 2018 16:56
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I absolutely cannot imagine only having 4 days pto wtffffffff I've had 21 at minimum since I started working. I'm up to 28 now.
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May 30, 2018 17:04
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Krispy Wafer posted:I get 4 PTO days a year and a week of vacation after 12 months. But I don't have to live in Canada, so... gently caress you are working at a lovely place.
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May 30, 2018 17:09
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I start my 16th year at this company. I finally get 4 weeks of PTO.
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May 30, 2018 17:10
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I only get 5 days PTO, but 3 weeks vacation.
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May 30, 2018 17:10
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Yeah, even at lovely MSP $oldJob I managed to get 2 weeks a year.
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May 30, 2018 17:11
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Vargatron posted:gently caress you are working at a lovely place. Technically I get 48 hours of PTO, but I work 12 hour days so....effectively 4 days. But it's not like 6 days compares very well for an IT job either. I still can't figure out the 1 week after 12 months. That's just mean.
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May 30, 2018 17:13
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The reason I've stayed at my current company for so long is the PTO and health benefits. 28 days of PTO plus 10 or 12 holidays, and a 500 dollar deductible 90/10 PPO that the company covers like 80% of the premiums for. I'm sure I could make more cash somewhere else, but after factoring in benefits it would be a net loss as far as overall compensations.
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May 30, 2018 17:13
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Old job was 2 weeks base, 3 weeks after 3 years and the 4 after 10 years. And that was pretty generous considering automotive.
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May 30, 2018 17:15
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In addition the approx 15 days of PTO, I get federal insurance at a private company, 10-ish holidays, cell phone stipend, home internet reimbursement and 2 days wfh/week.
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May 30, 2018 17:17
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Sepist posted:Why would a WAP upgrade plan not count as pre-sales? That kind of stuff if typically a non-billable item. Even in a project, internal meetings shouldn't be billable. The owner of the MSP was college roommates with one of the owners of the company I worked for. They got away with hella poo poo. Dude took me out to lunch when I was on the other coast. We got billed. I signed those; having a native guide to eating in Manhattan was worth it. Visiting the New York office, I once watched my favorite vendor get his dumb rear end killed on the sidewalk. It was Saturday, we'd met outside the corporate apartment, and just started walking around. We were shooting the breeze and hoping to walk place some place that looked good for lunch. Well, we ended up in Bed Stuy and while there were a lot of restaurant supply stores, places actually serving food were scarce. I'm from California, so the VOIP salesman from New Jersey feels like the responsible host. He's from Jersey. Waaaaay upstate New Jersey; he lives on three acres and can't see a neighbor from any window in his house. We're in Manhattan. What does he do to take charge and find us someplace to have lunch ? He stops a woman walking the other way by putting a hand on her shoulder. He asks her "Is there anywhere to eat near here ?" "I'm going to have to explain this to his wife." flashes through my mind. I honestly believe for a moment that I'm about to watch a man die. I figure a facefull of pepper spray is the least he can look forward to. The poor woman he accosted just backs off looking very agitated and disappears in foot traffic. We ended up at the now-closed Prince Street Cafe. It turns out In actually would step over a body to eat there, especially on someone else's tab. If you're local, see if you can find where those chefs ended up. My borscht and his cheeseburger and fries were impeccable. e. As much as the ad agency sucked overall, having 20 vacation days a year, plus Summer Fridays (4 of 8 Fridays off during summer months), for my last two years was awesome.
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im a contractor making $15 an hour with 0 benefits and 0 PTO but it's at a very large corporation and there's lots of room for advancement (everyone on my team has been here < 1 year. people get promoted a lot) and they make it clear that this is just a "get your foot in the door with $company" position, which is good. and i only work four 10-hour days a week with no overtime ever, which is good. everything about the job is great except the pay, which is bad. im gonna stick around here for another 7-9 months and see what happens. if anything, it's nice to have $company on my resume
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