So are parents, trust me.

That said, I’m still team teachers on this one.

I predict over the next decade a lot of people are going to start flipping the script on these employers. Now that this genie is out of the bottle, it’s going to be pretty hard to cork it again. Maybe for a bit, but it’ll soon boil over. I mean some of this RTO is really just poorly disguised layoffs that the PR department doesn’t want getting out. Or it’s about control at the micro level. That’s going to get figured out pretty fast.

Either way, smarter companies are going to use balanced WFH as a recruitment tactic (that could literally save them money), and I also predict the numbers are soon going to reflect that the next couple of years aren’t as profitable for these guys that are dictating five days a week in the office, and their people are going to be far less satisfied. Might get away with it for a bit if the economy slows down, I dunno, it’ll be interesting to see how this all plays out.

It depends on what the books are and what the reference material is. I’m an accountant, and anything like tax/compliance & standards related is usually digital because of how fast and often it changes. But I still have what you would call textbooks that I reference pretty often. Mostly my Treasury book, or when I’m trying to find a formula for a specific application. Hell I’ve even been guilty of digging back through my books from my articling period, to find something specific from time to time.

Tourism gold. You’ll find me and my family sliding over that way this fall some time. Hopefully they launch some hotel deals, might even hitch the dirt bike up and make a weekend of it.

It was heaven. Didn’t have to see his whiny ass crying every single fucking turn of my head.

Couldn’t just last forever though. Ol’ Second Try Poilievre is back to haunt us. It’s kind of fun when you turn these slogans on them, it’s just going to make him whine more though.

Our national chains are more of a problem than the US is.

Marlaina spelled backwards is Analram. That’s probably where the extra i came in. Maybe she was bullied as a kid, and as revenge is a traitorist anti-vaxxer with a blood thrust for all control.

Gilead. Like all the other fascists.

Shes too stupid to defend against the interests she’s courting on her neverending thirst for power.

Ah yes the cons and all their privatizing. Trickle down economics blah blah blah, etc.

I mean you are dealing with the absurd, so what’s a win anyways? All for him to decide tomorrow it’s a loss?

Country is ruled by an authoritarian warlord, you can’t expect decency or rationality. If it was everyone’s beloved PP in Carneys place, he’d still be getting his ass handed to him. Don’t kid yourself.

And he might roll out of bed one morning at 3am and decide it’s all over again. Hit the truth social with his one eye open, and that’s that.

Coffee can come from a variety of sources. Some of the local roasters have what I believe are basically futures purchased for coffee grown in the coffee belt regions.

I’m not psychotic about it, like somewhere some place whatever I’m after probably uses US sourced materials or touches the US somehow. Can’t help that. Can only do so much, right?

Mostly just coffee and water. Water comes out of my tap. My coffee is locally sourced (we have a variety of local roasteries).

I couldn’t remember if that was before or after they went public. Must have been before if it was 2003, because I’m almost positive they went public in 2005.

2005 was when they went public. That’s when the enshittification started. It all started when they went central with their bakeries and pulled all the baking from in house. Then the prices started going up. 25 cents per fiscal year, almost to the calendar date. Then shit started getting smaller. Less staff. The bagel toasters suddenly sped up a whole lot.

Fast forward to like say 2015, they were probably the biggest users of the TFW plan. Didn’t train anyone properly. Couldn’t keep staff. The toasters went so fast the bagels pretty much shot like a torpedo out of the toaster when someone put one down. Food was never warm. Lids leaked like hell, and no one would do anything about it.

Used to be a multiple times a day tim visitor. Best thing that ever happened to me was when they went to shit. It correlates directly with better health, better financial health and habits and it removed what was pretty much an addiction. I haven’t even been inside one since COVID.

Come on bruh. Have you been to a Tim Hortons in the last 20 years? Dumpster fire to the exponent of 100.

Can’t affect shit, if we ain’t buying shit.

I’m going out of my way, overpaying, to make sure my purchases are made on Canadian soil, from Canadian companies.

On the last part, that’s how minority governments work. The NDP were just puppets, used for their votes, and nothing more. Sure they were made to feel like the popular kid, but you are right, they took the fall on anything unpopular. They maybe even got a few things done, but did they really? That pharmacy care coverage thing for example, it’s been such a shoddy implementation and some of the provinces are ignoring it. It’s almost like it was designed not to work…

Meanwhile the Liberals got almost four solid years of gears, thanks to the Dippers.

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