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Corporate Work in the US vs. Canada?
No One You Know asks: "I've been working as a sysadmin for an insurance company in the US for the past six years, and have decided to move to Canada. I've had it with corporate America, but I'm trying to keep an open mind while job hunting. How does Canadian corporate life compare to that of the US?"
...you'd better like back bacon. That's all I should have to tell you.
Carousel is a lie!
Except for pea-soup-eating separatists, the annoying weather, the sports teams that never win, (go calgary), 90cents a Litre Gas, and 15% Sales Tax!
But we do have Beer!!
People don't speak so loudly. [ducks]
Drill baby drill - on Mars
Fat geeks in Parkas look just as big as skinny geeks in Parkas.. Girls you meet will never know until you get them back to your igloo.
Time travel is possible. We are quickly heading for 1984.
"Stay the hell away from my dam or I'll shoot!"
It's true. The last guy I saw brandishing a gun got stabbed. Fortunately, we were able to keep the bleeding in check with hockey tape and Tim Horton's muffins. Then it was just a matter of keeping him calm (medicinal marijuana) until his free medical care arrived via dogsled.
In Canada, they don't really use computers. They only have one industry, well two if you want to seperate them, but those are creating snow and creating cold. You see, they just sit up there in their cold factories creating snow all day and then they turn on their giant fans and blow it into places like Wisconsin, etc. They take great pride in this however, because without them people like me might actually be able to walk around more than 4 months out of the year without being wrapped in 5 shirts, a coat, an under-coat, 3 hats, gloves with mittins over them, 5 pairs of socks, furry boots and 15 scarfs wrapped around my entire body. Hey Canada, thanks a lot!
"If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer
The main difference in other countries is that they don't use 4 foot pannels to make up the partitions, they use 1.2 meter pannels so you'll find your cubical is some multiple of 3/4 inch smaller.
Silly, they're not part of the US; they're only our hat.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
I'm just curious; how'd you manage to get all these different jobs?
He's always been one step ahead of InterPol.
More music, fewer hits
Just think of what he WOULD have said about Republicans if he weren't polite.
...broadband internet access and cable TV are significantly cheaper (for you slashdotters out there).
Uhhh... how many of us here AREN'T slashdotters?!??
He ran away from the taxes, poor health care, and constant interference of the government to come to California.
OMG, if he thought California was an improvement on those things, Canada must be truly screwed.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
A beautiful blonde female of French decent would cost you $1000 per hour in New York.
In Montreal, it will run you $150.
That is the real bargain.
I don't read or respond to AC posts