Slight rant you can call it!

**Michaelaw** · 04-04-2010, 10:31 PM

Easter is just another time of year when I get hit in the wallet because of other peoples beliefs. Just put it in the same basket as Christmas and the Olympics. Oh Canada...I'm ready and able to work all these days you shut me down!. I'm a freelancer....You take my tax dollars, CPP, UIC, fuel tax. sales tax property tax, Casino money but unlike your employees who get Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday off this holiday weekend... WITH PAY! I just lose four days wages. And you wonder my dear government why I shaft you every chance I get!

**Bambi** · 04-04-2010, 10:35 PM

you know Michael it might not be wise to post on a bulletin board that you shaft the government.

I am sorry that you are not getting paid today. For many people Monday is not a holiday (except for government employees like me).

However, every job has its ups and downs. I have job security (well mostly), good pay and a pension at some point. I also have to deal with those above me and below me. not to mention people not always thrilled with waiting for the service.

**Michaelaw** · 04-04-2010, 11:10 PM

Originally Posted by Bambi

you know Michael it might not be wise to post on a bulletin board that you shaft the government.

I am sorry that you are not getting paid today. For many people Monday is not a holiday (except for government employees like me).

However, every job has its ups and downs. I have job security (well mostly), good pay and a pension at some point. I also have to deal with those above me and below me. not to mention people not always thrilled with waiting for the service.

I couldn't give a rats petunia what the government reads about me and if they were the last employer left on earth...I'd starve!!! No disrespect to you

I worked for them once and swore I'd never repeat that mistake. I have never in all my years seen a more bumbling way to waste vast amounts of money in my life. Of course it helps that accountability is not one of the five stars that rate their performance. I strongly resent paying taxes of any kind...Yes I use their roads but if they had left some old horse trails for me I would not! I am an anti religious, government, Olympic grouch sometimes

**Iguanasan** · 04-04-2010, 11:36 PM

So, I'm curious. If you are a freelancer how does the government giving their employees off cause you to lose 4 days of pay? Do you freelance for the government? Do you lose 2 days pay every weekend?

Not trying to put you on the spot but I just don't understand.

**casil403** · 04-04-2010, 11:46 PM

Easter Monday is not really a holiday in Alberta either....Gov't employees have the day off but in the O&G business (which runs the city and the province) it's back to work for the most part.
I'm sorry MAW I'm with Iggy..

If you don't work for the government, I don't really understand how a 4 day holiday would impact a free-lance worker.

I'm okay with paying taxes too btw.....I would rather pay taxes than have the American system of doing things....especially when it comes to health care.

**Michaelaw** · 04-04-2010, 11:54 PM

I meant Iggy, (though I'm a bad ranter... Too emotional

) that as an employee of most companies in Canada you either get a day off with pay or if you work, you are compensated with extra coin, ie time and a half, double time etc for public holidays. Though I'm a freelancer, the government has pushed us into a slot called casual labor so they can apply all said money collections, UI, CPP, income tax what have you, nice for them but because the country is busy celebrating the holiday, my services are not needed...Too bad for me, I'm not compensated in this case for Good Friday or Easter Monday. I didn't get mail on Friday nor will I on Monday. It's a pointless rant I suppose but it irks me that I lose close to six thousand dollars this year mostly due to what others believe. Otherwise I stay afloat like the rest of us

**Michaelaw** · 04-05-2010, 12:08 AM

Casil...

I admit I went sideways bringing Big Brother into it. As a freelance you work when the work is there. This can mean 14 days straight followed by one day off and many nasty turn a rounds with only two or three hours sleep. I put up with this because I know that the industry will tank throughout the year. People don't hold conferences during holidays and usually tend to hedge three or more days either side of said holiday. In the case of Easter this year it's a four day event That I'm flat lined for plus three days either side of really slow activity. I guess I'm getting old and cranky

I should just pull in my fins and take a job at London Drugs selling cameras or home theater...People shop 24/7 365

**Michaelaw** · 04-05-2010, 01:56 AM

And to top it off

I did have a four hour shift tomorrow covering some persons butt for the holiday but....Just got the call that his boss told him it wasn't a holiday and he had to work the shift. Sure hope this guy phones the post office