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Posted
on Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 3:00 PM
Dear University:
I'm sure your administrators aren't all idiots. It certainly seems like they are, but you just can't get this concentration of incompetence by fluke. In the guidance department, in the registrar's office, in the biology department, and elsewhere- it's almost impossible to get someone to do their job. You, oh provider of knowledge and wisdom, have created an atmosphere of incompetence and apathy. Please provide your administrators with the tools and training to do their job properly, because... oh forget it, I've already lost my mind. —so, so, SO frustrated.
Posted
on Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:00 AM
In a world where everyone and everything is in debt in one way or another, we rely 100% on our government to ensure our safety and prosperity. From health, to safety, to education, all aspects of our lives are managed by the government of Canada. It blows my mind when counsel and mayor spend money like it's Toony Tuesday at Taco Bell. We opted to spend $200,000 repainting sidewalk crosses because people are so insanely dumb that they can't look before crossing the road (or can't take their eyes off their phone while driving) that we need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make sure these idiots have an excuse when they get hit that fault doesn't really get shifted in the first place. A few years back Dal was crying for funding to keep scientific research data in the country by getting their own servers setup, they needed $300,000, and if they couldn't they would have to store their data in the US&A on Google servers. They never did get that funding.. but we spend $200,000 on zebra striped cross walks? This kind of irresponsible spending is what is keeping us in debt, I can live with politics spending a few thousand(s) of dollars on their own personal life, hell I would ever encourage it if it meant they did their job correctly and gave us a surplus. Maybe it's time to change how we look at the debt vs income structure in Nova Scotia. Maybe it's time to let oil companies come and ravage our province like Alberta, After all.. they only pay about 5-7% income tax for far better service than we have. Instead everyone is concerned about the environment all of a sudden when frankly pollution around here is at an all time high. Personally I think if we did make as much money as Alberta, we'd end up blowing it on more zebra stripes from people getting hit by the oil tankers. Maybe it's for the good though, one less moron who isn't draining our fiscal budget by "working seasonal shifts" and more money in the hands of the corrupt politicians that fight to give them the check so they can buy a $20,000 talking Christmas tree. —A logical thinker
Posted
on Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:00 AM
Third and final bitch of the day.
To me, work is a part of life that we don't enjoy doing, but we have to to make ends meat. Or at least that's what I thought it was until I worked in Cape Breton.
When I was 18 I had my first job cleaning beds at MSVU for $13/h in 2007 during the summer, that was my real first job. Afterwards I worked in Sydney, Nova Scotia and learned first hand extremely valuable Customer Service skills that I brought with me to even to today, anyways, Several years later I still am in between jobs and I found myself working at a call center in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. I worked there 12 hours day 6 days a week and gave my heart and soul. Not because I wanted to make lots of money (lol at a call center?) but because I loved the work and they let me. Sadly, the reason they let me work all that overtime was because 35% of the staff were on stress leave, and they eventually closed their doors (because, you know, I can't work 24/7 even if i wanted to). Fast forward to today, I've NEVER been without work for more than a month at most. currently I am at a stable job where I earn a modest wage and I plan on being here for a very long time. I received this job not due to my failed education but through my work experience.
My point in short, anyone that "can't find work" is simply not looking. From 18-26 I have NEVER been without work, Even if I didn't like the job I settled because I needed the money and didn't want to go on EI like every other lazy piece of shit in the province. EI is for people who can't work, not that they don't want to. Stress leave is another thing, to me you should be signed out by a psychiatrist or else you are like everyone else and should have to go to work. It's sad how many people sit at home and watch NetFlix off the tax payers dime. For these citizens *I* am the tax payer, not you. Not you who sit at home and bitch and complain about everything going wrong in your life when you don't make a change.
I hate you. I really do, not because you're a horrible person (because you are) but because you don't take any steps to go in the right direction and I am left with the bill. —A person who works for a living
Posted
on Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:00 AM
Dear Halifax,
Let me start by saying - I see you. I know you're out there every day working hard, sleeping in your baco (yeah, I see you sleeping in there). But seriously, the main argument I kept hearing on the radio is that "When it snows, it freezes, then becomes nearly impossible to plow the snow out of the way". A modest and clear answer, however when it snows you plow the middle of the road, then don't do a second plow until days/weeks after you've made your pass through once. If you did a double pass, each time clearing one side of the road to the curb you wouldn't have to deal with frozen snow. People today lack such common sense it's astounding how they made it to the age they are.. People should use their heads a lot more and stop trying to fix everything at once. —A pissed off motorist that keeps having lanes cut off
Posted
on Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:00 AM
I've noticed that unless news comes from a "legitimate" news source in Halifax, people just completely ignore it or it's shoved under a rug, never to see the light of day.
I'm sure we all can recall the quagmire involving the ex-Mayor his failure to execute the wishes of someone who entrusted him to do so.
It was reported on numerous times by someone who is a legitimate journalist and it was completely ignored. However, when it could be ignored no more and it was finally picked up by the "mainstream media", it was all downhill from there.
I've noticed that it's happening yet again. A "non-legitimate" news site has reported on some issues that all taxpayers should find rather interesting and yet there hasn't been a single thing mentioned about it elsewhere.
Look around you Haligonians. The real news isn't necessarily what you're paying money for.
—Refuses to pay for lies
Posted
on Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:30 PM
What is the point of writing a resume if I also have to fill out a form with all the exact same information that's on my resume? It shouldn't take 40 minutes to apply for a job, I'm playing a numbers game here and you're wasting my time. Just read my damn resume. —unemployed and annoyed
Posted
on Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:00 AM
So...the province is willing to pay one of the big banks up to 22 million dollars to provide, what they say, is a possible 500 jobs....that's all well and good...I have no issue with anyone providing jobs....but what I don't get is why the government has to bribe these corporations to do so....said big bank, in 2014, was making an average profit of 26.4 million dollars....a day....or...$1,102,000.00 per hour....So I ask, why does the government feel the need to provide 22 million dollars in "job incentives" when the bank can cover the cost of these same incentives in less than a day? If I'm sitting at your kitchen table with $25,000.00 in my hand and I ask you to give me $2.00 for a bus ticket...would you? I'm pretty sure $22,000,000.00 could buy an awful lot of food, clothing, medicine, textbooks....... —Tired of mismanagement
Posted
on Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:00 AM
Glad to see you are hard at work.....You ask residents to clear sidewalks and catch-basins....so I spend over an hour, sweating my moderately sized butt cheeks off, clearing the only catch-basin on our cul-de-sac, so that you could come along and push that last 3 inches of frozen slop back into the huge hole I dug in the 6 foot high snow bank. It's not like you were even driving down the street pushing snow off to the right where you may not have seen the huge opening in the snowbank....no you pushed it straight in....even though it was pretty fk'in obvious there was a catch-basin there.....RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU. If you, HRM, think I am clearing this catch-basin again, for the third time (yes that's twice you've done this), then you can kiss my previously mentioned sweaty butt cheeks. Good job creating more work for your own crews and citizens.
Get with the program...you are sadly disorganized......don't care how much snow we have gotten. Please don't forget to send another piece of heavy equipment back to clear the block of ice now totally blocking the only place for water to go on our street....don't worry the taxpayers have lots of money for you. —Taxpayer
Posted
on Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:00 AM
A special thank you to the hipster douchebag fuckfaces who have ruined the local farmers markets for regular people shopping for regular food. I don't want to hear live music at a volume more suitable for a bar. I don't want to be subjected to the stink from your organic, hand made artisan soaps and aromatherapy oils that somehow don't bother you even though you all seem to be scent sensitive or have that bullshit environmental illness. I don't want pastries and coffee I can make myself at home. I don't want to be crammed in unshaved armpit to runny nostril with parents waxing poetic about whatever makes them pretend to be fulfilled while they are ignoring their precious little monsters running around like mini terrorists. Move. You are blocking the fucking aisle. I want the beautiful fruits, vegetables and starter plants that I used to be able to buy from local farmers at a much lower price than the big retailers. But you assholes have fucked that up for everybody, too, because now all that stuff costs just as much, if not more, than it does at the corporate grocery store. Thank you so much for taking something local and pure and useful and turning it into another steaming pile of Halifax hipster crap. Fuck you, you fucking fucks.
—hungry in Dartmouth
Posted
on Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:00 AM
I live in a side street off South Park and Inglis. I spent 40 minutes Friday afternoon with a tiny metal spade, pushing the snowbank back about 4 feet, one spadeful at a time, and digging down until I exposed the entire curbside sewer. I was never so glad to see a rusty storm sewer in all my life. Saturday afternoon when walking back home from downtown, I noticed the enormous bulldozer tire tracks all over the streets, right into the curb ... completely covering up with packed down slush 'n snow all the stormwater sewers that civic-minded neighbours had broken their backs to uncover in anticipation of the Saturday night rain. How stupid and incompetent can "professional" winter clearance crews be? Lucky for you I think of my neighbours, not just myself, so I dug out the storm sewer a SECOND TIME. This Sunday morning I dug yet more of the snowbank back towards the curb, chopping out drainage channels through the bulldozer-packed-down hard slush to speed up the draining of the lake of water in my driveway. Facilitating the drainage of water should be part of routine winter maintenance to prevent flooding and flash freezing. Oh wait, I can hear my Mum again: "Whatever happened to common sense?" —Both My Elbows Are Now Tennis'd and My Back is Broken