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--- Quote from: Syntax Error on March 30, 2021, 02:46:12 pm ---@25 CPS do you realise just how much home commuters are suffering? Now they have to get their OWN lattes! Often from their OWN coffee machine. Pour it into their OWN cup. And then wipe the steamy pipe thing with their OWN dirty piece of bacteria infested cloth. Yes Canada, people are suffering. --- End quote --- I know. My heart bleeds for them. It's cruel and unusual punishment for these work from home laptop jockeys to have to make their own coffees and clean up the mess after themselves. In all seriousness, the building I work in, and I'm still required to actually go in to work, used to be in a bit of a no man's land but that's changed over time as sprawl and urbanization's happened and it got to the point where there were four Starbucks with in easy less than 5 minute walking distance as of late 2019 and for most of 2020. The massive shift to working from home due to the pandemic caused Starbucks to close three of those four a couple of months ago though so that speaks to the volume of work from home going on. Seriously, it really rankles me that Trudeau's got the federal government handing out this $400 no questions asked tax credit for work from home expenses to people that are saving huge money by not commuting at the same time he and every other politician has been running their mouths about essential workers on the front line blah blah blah, and yet none of us get anything from the government? Excuse me, that's pretty rude. It's even worse when you consider all the essential workers that happen to be under 40 are dead last in line to get vaccinated, get nothing for continuing to go to work at work, have had a year plus no of no enjoyable activities with no end in sight, and get blamed by the same politicians for spreading COVID-19 even though I and everyone I know keeps going to work, then going home and staring at the ceiling until it's time to go to sleep and then get up and do it again. It's unreal. I watched Trudeau's press conference yesterday to see if he'd speak to any of that but no. More blah blah blah about how great front line workers are. More blah blah blah about how we can't have our lives back. More blah blah blah about vaccines showing up eventually. Maybe. Several months from now. If we're lucky. Then it's question and answer period with the same lame softball questions out of the Canadian media which is too polite to ask the difficult stuff that needs to be asked and air the answers. Q: "Mr. Trudeau, how many COVID-19 vaccinations can be packed into a 747?" A: "Well, you know, it isn't so much about how many COVID-19 vaccinations that can be packed into a 747 as it is the ethical problem of that 747 once it's loaded because of climate change and the carbon footprint that flying that aircraft would have. We're committed to meeting our Pairs accord obligations, and that's why Canada's rate of vaccination continues to fall further and further behind all other developed countries..." Q: "Mr. Trudeau, do you have a plan to-" A: "Hold it right there. I can categorically say that it would be deeply irresponsible for the Canadian government to make ANY plans at a time like this." With the way things are going sideways here, the work from home crowd's going to have to keep slinging their own damn coffee and is probably in line for another $400 tax credit for 2021 as well. |
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On the plus side, that's Canadian dollars so not worth much anyway >:D |
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