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Dr. Steve Brule posted:The worst for me is the stupid team lunches. Thank goodness the economy tanked and they got cut. This, except I work for an absurdly lucrative consulting company so we have these lunches once or twice a week. My boss has a fetish for Japanese steak houses. Which is all fine and dandy but not every loving week no hyperbole here. I have eaten at the same three Japanese restaurants for months. I once faked eating a dish so I could go out and have pizza afterwards. These lunches are "working lunches" and we are forced to be there. They cost on average 400-600$ for the group of us and i'm sure that he finds a way to bill one of our clients. Nobody has had the balls to suggest a new type of restaurant. Including myself, but i'm by the far the most junior and value having a job and not rocking the boat. Some idiot wrote a policy that all correspondance with our foreign engineering counterparts has to be done with videoconferencing software. This means every meeting ( we have a lot of meetings) begins with us fiddling with the software and using the telephone to coordinate the videoconference. Rather then doing the drat thing by teleconference. Which would probably be easier and cheaper with the cost of voip these days. Understanding the unintelligible accents of our outsourced filipino engineers is an exercise in patience. I get the bulk of this fun because i'm usually responsible for analyzing the information and conveying it to the client/my boss We have a very expensive and good Lavazza espresso machine, but no espresso pods. Nobody is sure whose responsibility it is order some, so it just doesn't get done. I asked if I could buy some and expense it, I was brushed off and it was never spoken of again. So now I just spend 2-5$ for my espresso drinks everyday. We have a xerox machine in office, however its setup with some retarded billing system where we have to reference clients to bill them for photocopies. We weren't given any training on this, so everyone just goes to the UPS store. We have no dress code for when clients aren't expected in the office, however the owner/boss enforces some arbitrary facial hair/hairstyle dresscode everyday. This makes no sense, there are no written guidelines on this, it basically amounts to " I don't like your haircut, change it". TL:DR inefficient bullshit drives me mad.
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I work with a mid forties woman that refers to her husband in casual conversation as " dear husband". No idea why this infuriates me, but it does.
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E the Shaggy posted:
Train her, then drop them an email two weeks later offering consulting services at 500$ a day.
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KevinCow posted:I've had a corporate job for about a month now, and I have just one question for those of you who have been doing it for years: How have you not shot yourself yet? I can already feel it draining my soul away. Drugs, alcohol and in some cases religion.
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It's 7:30AM sunday and i'm getting ready to go to work. This is completely normal for me and the only thing that makes this day different from other 5-6 I work is the lack of traffic.
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onymous posted:In Quebec my entire undergraduate education at McGill cost me about 12000$ total for four years, plus books. I never took out any loans but I know that if you're financially emancipated (i.e. not dependent on your parents) the loans you get are partly grants. And paying them back is made very easy for you, though I don't know the details. I love telling this to americans at my current big private american university which charges them 50k per year. Had I completed my education at McGill I would of paid three times that. I'm Canadian  Seriously gently caress McGill/Quebec and their differential tuition. All the other sane provinces charge the same for all students across Canada because in/out province tuition rates would give people outside Ontario/Quebec 1-2 choices for University. That rate is in no way representative of what the average Canadian pays for schooling. Its more along the lines of 50k-70k for people who go to school out of their hometown or province. Which is everyone who doesn't live in a handful of major cities. Canada student loans are not better then American ones, I haven't taken any, but I know lots of people who have and have been forced to pay 200-250$ a month all while making 800-1000$ a month in big city centres. Not to mention our private loan industry is practically non existent. Australia's program of requiring people to make 40k CDN before paying back student loans makes much more sense then OSAP's current stance of " Hey you've been out of school for six months, pay up!" .
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Sprawl posted:Well most American University's are poo poo. Its not all roses and teddy bears over here either. The lack of rapeage stems from the government tightly controlling and regulating education ( allowing few private/religious universities). But our private schools are just as bad as yours. With "institutions" like DeVery fleecing everyone, using our provincial student loans as tools.
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Sprawl posted:Quebec Student loans are very much different then the rest of the student loans in Canada. Thats because the province subsidies it using blackmail money from the Federal government and charging other Canadians more then Quebecois. Educations laws in Quebec are illegal at worse, immoral at best. Their have been many lawsuits regarding its discriminatory laws. Aside from discriminating against non quebecois Canadians for tuiton rates, a practice only followed by Quebec. They also try and forcefully assimilate immigrants to the province regardless of individual desires or needs. For example, if you an American moves to Quebec. Your child MUST be educated in French, even though their are public english schools in the province. Who are those schools for you ask? People whose parents were educated in English in Quebec ( so basically the historic anglophones communities) So if you move here from Haiti or Ivory Coast, speak french at home, are in fact francophones. Your child can't be educated in english, a language they will need to get a job outside the economic wasteland that is Quebec. gently caress Quebec and its  attitude.
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