Downtown Khazan: Ice Cold Utopia

[Guy1]

~Must not manly squee~


~Must not manly squee~


~Must not manly squee~



~Must not manly squee~





squee.

[bruceleegreyhulk]

Movie's going with a simplefied definition of Monica's power. Guess audiences won't understand want the Electromagnetic spectrum is.

[Len Ikari145]

[bruceleegreyhulk]

[Lord Falcon]

*sighs* Looking down the barrel of a strike. Second one since I started working here (last one was over 20 years ago, so it's not like they happen often).

I guess we'll see this week if Fedgov/Treasury Board keeps playing their games.

Oh no! Want to talk about it?

Sounds like you're definitely fine as far as job security goes in this context.

[Tami]

Epic LMAO's Of History!

Monster Energy is now going after Pokemon over the use of the word Monster.

Was going to post the image but it has a curse word in it: C is for Cease and Desist

[Guy1]

Was going to post the image but it has a curse word in it: C is for Cease and Desist

LOL! You don't get between Cookie Monster and his Cookies. You just don't.

[Jcogginsa]

Today's my Birthday

[Dark Soul # 7]

Today's my Birthday

Grattis på födelsedagen!

Hope you have a nice celebration.

[Sharpandpointies]

Happy Birthday, Jcogginsa. ^_^

Oh no! Want to talk about it?

Sounds like you're definitely fine as far as job security goes in this context.

Job security isn't a concern. We're public servants, we're in a legal strike position, and there's more than 150K of us that might be walking off. It's just...ugh. No pay, strike, etc. Not the best situation for anyone.

But we've been screwed over (like everyone else) for years with 'cost of living adjustments' to our pay that are much, much lower than the actual rise in cost of living (most often we get a 1 to 1.5% yearly cost of living adjustment when the CoL has risen by 2.5-3.5%...over 20 years, this makes a difference, especially to people who are on the lower end of the salaries). This has been happening since the last strike, more than 20 years ago. And with inflation being what it is, and the government offering a ridiculous cost of living adjustment in our new contract, and then balking at ANY negotiation - they refused to budge, asked for arbitration themselves, and when the arbiters told them 'no, you need to give concessions, union is being reasonable here' they walked from the table, this is their usual gameplan - the Union decided it had enough. Especially since it's tax season, and the Canadian Revenue Agency workers have also had enough and want to walk off (and are in a legal position to do so).

So...biggest strike in many decades is lining up right now, and for a change the average citizen isn't complaining about 'privileged fedgov workers' because EVERYONE has realized (amazingly) that we're all getting screwed. <-- there is still complaining, but it's not nearly as omnipresent as it has been in the past.

Negotiations are ongoing, with Treasury Board actually making concessions (they scrambled back to the table once we started the strike vote), but there's still a decent chance of striking.

[Cleric of Hell’s Brigade]

Today's my Birthday

Happy Birthday hoss!

[Postmania]

Happy birth Jcogg!

[bruceleegreyhulk]

Today's my Birthday

Happy birthday day Jcogginsa

[Tami]

Today's my Birthday

Happy Birthday Jcogginsa.

[Hiromi]