the language barrier!!!
Feb 6th 2008, 5:23 pm
#31
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Re: the language barrier!!!
Its a T2 or a T4 or something.You get it when you leave your current employment and need it for social security, the GIRO cheque, previously known as the dole. You get a Giro cheque as you can cash it at the post office if you dont have a bank account, or one in debit so you cant draw on the cheque.
Or so I believe.
Its a T4, a Canadian just told me so it's true
Or so I believe.
Its a T4, a Canadian just told me so it's true
Feb 6th 2008, 5:26 pm
#32
Magnificently Withering
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Re: the language barrier!!!
Yeah, T4=P60, I thought - annual statement of earnings and tax deducted in previous tax year. Not sure what the equivalent of P45 is in Canada, as I've only had the one job since arriving...
Feb 6th 2008, 5:28 pm
#33
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Feb 6th 2008, 5:31 pm
#34
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Re: the language barrier!!!
annie, my wife is addicted so I have been forced to buy a 52 inch Big Screen, Baseball is a few weeks away, life is good.
Feb 6th 2008, 5:32 pm
#35
itchy feet again!
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Re: the language barrier!!!
Now that's a phrase understood by the Canadians.....but....erm......wasn't it you who started that other thread about this very thing? Why do we keep repeating.......I say, why do we keep repeating ourselves.............help........ the record's stuck, the record's stuck, the record's stuck, stuck, stuck......
Feb 6th 2008, 5:34 pm
#37
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Re: the language barrier!!!
The form that you receive when you've left a job in Canada is a Record of Employment (formal) or pink slip (informal).
Feb 6th 2008, 6:49 pm
#38
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Re: the language barrier!!!
My hubby (pre-me of course), use to talk about P45ing his ex-girlfriends (dumping them) - so he'll have to change that now to the Canadian equivalent I guess... 
Feb 6th 2008, 6:56 pm
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Re: the language barrier!!!
Now that's a phrase understood by the Canadians.....but....erm......wasn't it you who started that other thread about this very thing? Why do we keep repeating.......I say, why do we keep repeating ourselves.............help........ the record's stuck, the record's stuck, the record's stuck, stuck, stuck......
too funny
Feb 6th 2008, 7:06 pm
#40
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Re: the language barrier!!!
Originally Posted by ladymoose
My hubby (pre-me of course), use to talk about P45ing his ex-girlfriends (dumping them) - so he'll have to change that now to the Canadian equivalent I guess...
Feb 6th 2008, 7:15 pm
#41
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Re: the language barrier!!!
Interesting Ferrari Steve_P, what model is that?
Feb 6th 2008, 7:16 pm
#43
Meh
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Re: the language barrier!!!
Never have truer words been said. You can use petrol, bonnet, wireless, GIRO, P-45 etc etc when in the company of fellow Brits, but to most people it sounds pompous and arrogant.
Feb 6th 2008, 7:22 pm
#44
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Re: the language barrier!!!
I work in IT and I get the piss taken out of me all the time for pronouncing 'Router' as 'roo-ter'.
Apparently it should be 'Row-ter' (row as in having an argument with your wife, not what Cambridge & Oxford do in the boat race) which sounds absolutely ridiculous coming from my mouth.
When in Rome...
Apparently it should be 'Row-ter' (row as in having an argument with your wife, not what Cambridge & Oxford do in the boat race) which sounds absolutely ridiculous coming from my mouth.
When in Rome...
Feb 6th 2008, 7:39 pm
#45
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Re: the language barrier!!!
I work in IT and I get the piss taken out of me all the time for pronouncing 'Router' as 'roo-ter'.
Apparently it should be 'Row-ter' (row as in having an argument with your wife, not what Cambridge & Oxford do in the boat race) which sounds absolutely ridiculous coming from my mouth.
When in Rome...
Apparently it should be 'Row-ter' (row as in having an argument with your wife, not what Cambridge & Oxford do in the boat race) which sounds absolutely ridiculous coming from my mouth.
When in Rome...
What always gets me is you think you have this sussed, and then a Canadian will talk about Home Depot (not 'deepo') and tomaaartoes