This site is pretty cool. It gives you a visual depiction of what your salary is on a hourly/weekly/yearly basis and even shows a ticker of how much money you earn as you look at the page (especially fun if you look at it while at work!)In other work-related news, I wore a cardigan to […]
Whether you believe unions still have a role to play in society or not, this is pretty surprising. Frank Stronach, the owner of the multi-billion dollar auto parts manufacturing company, Magna International has agreed to a deal with the CAW to allow unionization in his factories. (Hey, if his daughter can flip-flop, why can't dad? […]
Today marks the six month anniversary of me starting at Southeast Regional Library. It's hard to believe how time is flying – I think any job tends to go faster, the longer you're there and the more comfortable you get but this one, mixed with the new baby which also helps to make time pretty […]
A few recent conversations and readings have swirled together to make me want to write about the four day work week. I should mention off the bat that I was very fortunate when I worked for the Saskatchewan Publishers Group to be on a four-day schedule (all three employees in the organization were) so these […]
I mentioned in an earlier post that one of the reasons I took this job over another one that a) paid better and b) was a permanent full-time position was because Southeast Regional Library is the rural system I grew up with and which still oversees my hometown branch.What I didn't know when I took […]
This week’s post is a bit late because apparently there is something called “real life” that happens “outside”, occasionally in places where there are no “Internets.” Whodathunkit? Anyhew, I recently came across an article which noted that most conservative of corporations, Big Blue itself, IBM, apparently has had a policy since the mid-1990’s where they […]
I've had lots of links, pics and videos lately so why not a rollicking ramble through things happening recently in my life for a change?Pace…is a drool monster and we figure he's starting teething. He's 15.3 lbs at 3 months and wearing clothes that are sized for a 6-9 month old. He sleeps 5-6 hours […]
I didn't participate in the co-op program at FIMS for a variety of reasons: 1) I only wanted to be out of the workforce for a year so going straight through doing the “Suicide Five” was pretty much my only option 2) being older and a bit more established, I was able to access a […]
34 – age I turned today 25 – age someone recently told me I was really at 4 – Number of gifts Pace got from Shea today 2 – Number of gifts I got from Shea today2 – Number of times Pace almost peed on me1 – Number of times Pace peed in his own […]
I've had four speeding tickets in my life… #1 – I was driving home late at a night from a summer job during college after a week working in northern Saskatchewan. Anxious to get home, I was going pretty fast when an RCMP officer passed me just outside a town on the other site of […]
