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Is this legal, though?

And that's really too bad, because there's pretty solid evidence that longer vacation times increase productivity. Which - after all - makes sense. But, because we compare ourselves with our pathetic (when it comes to this issue) American neighbours, we are destined to remain overworked.

He lives around High Park, and we're very much affected.

^ I'm actually shocked at how relatively clean the city is considering there is a strike going on. I'm thinking some people must be doing guerrilla cleaning.

$25/hr is more than a middle class wage now?

Insurance industry in Canada is not a monopoly, seeing as how there are dozens and dozens of companies providing insurance services. There is a partial monopoly in the banking/finance industry -- it does not really apply to insurance in the same way, aside from the fact that it is a fairly...

As far as I can see, the discussion about the failings of unions has also turned into gross stereotyping of private sector efficiency and opportunity. There is nothing 'vague' or 'unsubstantiated' about red tape and it happens in many large (and some mid-size) companies, and it does not mean...

Where was I making that relationship, and why do I need to make this relationship? I think it's pretty clear what part of Disparishun's comment I had a problem with. I even bolded it for easy understanding.

Yeah -- and Bob Rae turns into a giant devil for doing pretty much what he had to do. I never could understand the whole resentment over Rae Days -- a proposition 1,000,000 better than laying people off. People still have jobs, get paid less, but have more free time. Fair enough. That...

I disagree with the section in bold "the difference is that the private sector firm which is bureaucratic and inefficient gets left behind because it can't compete." These guys are one of the top insurance firms in Canada. Their tangled bureaucracy surely long predates my time with them, and...

HA! I guess that's nice in theory, but far from the truth. This is one of Canada's major insurers. Let me tell ya, they are going nowhere; hilariously, they would often complain about government's bureaucracy and I would think are you people blind????

That's what - around $34,000 a year or so? Frankly, $17/hour with no real benefits for trash collection appears pretty damn low for the crappy job that it is.

The amount of times my immediate superiors have taken credit for my work is too often to count. This complaint is hardly unique to my personal experience, and I don't think those people get weeded out all that often. Thankfully, doesn't happen in my current job, office is much too small for...

This is NOT my experience. I think the greatest myth about the private sector is that your work speaks for itself and determines your 'value.' Yes, 'go-getters' who effectively market themselves, take credit for work of others, and who play golf in order to fit in (and become) the 'old...

Especially the 4L cans of oil.

I'm an urban planner working in the private sector.

He's so radioactive that he's positively glowing. I think as long as he keeps selling himself as a Harris protege (you know, that guy who couldn't balance the budget at the best of times and resorted to selling public assets -- until it was hard to sell more -- to hide the red ink), the Liberal...

I'm not going to bite your head out of it, but your 'work for yourself' solution is completely inapplicable to many/most occupational sectors. Heck, though my profession is amenable to consultant work, it's an impossible proposition for a good chunk of one's career. Work hard and you can...

No, it's not as simple as that because there can never be a situation where what you produce is what you get paid in the private sector; in such an arrangement, the business is done for. I can? That requires capital I obviously don't have (and it's easier for my profession than many others!)...

True. It was merely a comment on this idea that 'money's tight for everyone.' No, not everyone.