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Old Feb 21st 2006, 12:21 pm
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I'm so happy - I've just dropped my husband off for his first day at one of the local goldmines.

He's been unemployed since just after Christmas - rat of a boss told him just before Christmas that there wasn't enough work (aircraft mechanic) for them all, and then proceeded to take on another guy the following week, fully qualified (took my husband on with promises of putting him through the apprenticeship) - cheek!

I'm just so pleased cos we would've had to seriously consider moving away from Red Lake if he wasn't able to get a job and we both love it here - blue skies, huge lake (looking forward to summer!) and friendly community.

Today is a great day!!!
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Old Feb 21st 2006, 1:38 pm
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**good luck** hope it all works out for you both.
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Old Feb 21st 2006, 2:26 pm
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Congrats and all the best to Mr. TrishB.

fANTASTIC good luck to you both. Let us all know how his first say at work was
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Old Feb 21st 2006, 4:41 pm
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Congratulations on your hubby's new job! WTG I hope it all goes well for him.
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Congratulations to Mr Trish!
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Hope he had a great day!

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Great news. What a burden has been lifted from your shoulders. I'm glad for you that you can stay where you are.

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Originally Posted by TrishB
I'm so happy - I've just dropped my husband off for his first day at one of the local goldmines.

He's been unemployed since just after Christmas - rat of a boss told him just before Christmas that there wasn't enough work (aircraft mechanic) for them all, and then proceeded to take on another guy the following week, fully qualified (took my husband on with promises of putting him through the apprenticeship) - cheek!

I'm just so pleased cos we would've had to seriously consider moving away from Red Lake if he wasn't able to get a job and we both love it here - blue skies, huge lake (looking forward to summer!) and friendly community.

Today is a great day!!!
Glad you were both able to recover from that incident.

Sadly that is one thing about Canada.

One can expect to experience such, that would not legally be possible in the UK.

Hopefully, that employer "was a means to a ends!" to your advantage to?

For although Canada is a great place -

One can find themselves working amongst a group of employees - all of which are the same - but each might be on wildly different scales - and if it`s because the employer does it - just because he has favourites - in Canada, one can!

I think there are one or to other threads on this site - with very deep explanations of disasters - regarding job termination - some of the examples reveal a "no common sense" and an expectation that, their "society status" in the UK, would automatically be here in Canada - the BMW / Merc - kids wanting and getting everything, hols to the West Indies and The Alps every year.

IT`S NOT HERE - FOR THOSE IN THE UK - IF YOU ARE COMING - YOU WILL HAVE TO WORK MORE HOURS PER YEAR!
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I think what pissed me off the most was the fact that hubbie was qualified through the RAF to fix multimillion pound jet engines, but wasn't good enough for this guy! Mr TrishB was willing to be paid $13.50 for the next 4 years to go through his apprenticeship (including periods of 'unemployment' while he went ot college in Manitoba for 10 weeks at a time) and yet he was told the WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS that he was being laid off due to lack of work, a complete lie!

We're just so pleased that we can now relax a bit as far as the finances go - we're not part of the Merc/BMW brigade, but just want to be able to afford food and paying the bills!! You wouldn't believe how expensive food is up here - mind you, it's all relative, as we get a lot of First Nations folks driving 8 hours south from the reserves to shop here as its much cheaper for them, whereas we drive 3 hours south as its much cheaper there!! Tehehe!
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Originally Posted by steve of 5-0
IT`S NOT HERE - FOR THOSE IN THE UK - IF YOU ARE COMING - YOU WILL HAVE TO WORK MORE HOURS PER YEAR!


I think that's a generalisation! I'm on a lot more money than I was in the UK and I work less hours, and I'm not expected to work more than that. I'm doing the same job too.

I'm not saying that this is the case for everybody but let's not generalise.

TrishB, congratulations to your husband
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We're just so pleased that we can now relax a bit as far as the finances go - we're not part of the Merc/BMW brigade, but just want to be able to afford food and paying the bills!! You wouldn't believe how expensive food is up here - mind you, it's all relative, as we get a lot of First Nations folks driving 8 hours south from the reserves to shop here as its much cheaper for them, whereas we drive 3 hours south as its much cheaper there!! Tehehe![/QUOTE]


Bloody Hell - I could not hack three hours to the stores - How much is milk - we pay $1.68 a litre. Bread around just under $2.00 a loaf.
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Originally Posted by TrishB
I'm so happy - I've just dropped my husband off for his first day at one of the local goldmines.

He's been unemployed since just after Christmas - rat of a boss told him just before Christmas that there wasn't enough work (aircraft mechanic) for them all, and then proceeded to take on another guy the following week, fully qualified (took my husband on with promises of putting him through the apprenticeship) - cheek!
It can be a problem when the apprentice knows more than the boss.

Congratulations on your husbands new employment.

Karma on its way.
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Old Feb 23rd 2006, 1:12 pm
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Originally Posted by Hangman
It can be a problem when the apprentice knows more than the boss.

Congratulations on your husbands new employment.

Karma on its way.
Steve
Ta v. much!
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Old Feb 23rd 2006, 1:21 pm
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Originally Posted by steve of 5-0
We're just so pleased that we can now relax a bit as far as the finances go - we're not part of the Merc/BMW brigade, but just want to be able to afford food and paying the bills!! You wouldn't believe how expensive food is up here - mind you, it's all relative, as we get a lot of First Nations folks driving 8 hours south from the reserves to shop here as its much cheaper for them, whereas we drive 3 hours south as its much cheaper there!! Tehehe!

Bloody Hell - I could not hack three hours to the stores - How much is milk - we pay $1.68 a litre. Bread around just under $2.00 a loaf.[/QUOTE]

We do have a small IGA and Easy Shopper up here but prices are sky high - not sure what bread costs as we make our own (breadmaker!!), milk is about $1.99, tub of President's Choice baby formula is $5 more here than in Dryden.

Up here, as soon as anyone knows you're heading out of town you get hit with shopping lists and the 'oh, could you just get me some ...'!!
Its easy to spot a Red Laker in Dryden - car loaded and nearly scraping on the ground!! I'm getting into this bulk buying mentality - we have a room in our house that's too cold to use at the moment so we use it as dry food storage!

Its actually a pretty cool place to live - the vet comes up monthly in the summer in a mobile surgery that's a big converted bus, any complicated or specialist medical cases are flown out to T. Bay or Winnipeg and the car dealerships provide mobile sales service - they come to town once in a blue moon and bring a load of used vehicles for folks to go see.
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