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Corporate Work in the US vs. Canada?

Posted by Cliff on from the are-they-really-all-that-different? dept.

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?"

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  1. frist post by bkirkby · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    frist post

  2. Watch out... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    everyone has square heads and rides on bicycles with square wheels!

  3. Blah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Score -1, Pro-USA

  4. You make less by nate+nice · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    You will probably make less and are paid in Canadian dollars, so that 60K a year isn't as nice as it sounds. You will also pay higher taxes. But, you also gain free health care as well and have more public facilitties. Also, you can take pride in the fact that your tax dollars don't go to humiliating and tortuing Iraqi POW's.
    Also, it's really, really, really cold in Canada. Hope you like Hockey! Keep in mind, your boss will still suck.

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    1. Re:You make less by Zebbers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      your tax dollars don't go to humiliating and tortuing Iraqi POW's.

      give me a fucking break...for all the negative publicity the US Military gets, as a whole it does an awful lot for this world and ensures a great many people safety, including canadia.

  5. Re:Dodging? by JohnDoe.Slashed · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Instead of that get ready for SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT II...

  6. Re:Same by Cyclone66 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That wasn't flame bait.. it's the truth..

  7. Re:Canadas not So Bad,.... by Tylermccauley · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    actually in bc you guys pay 17% for alcohol. its called social service tax. how gay. in alberta the land of the free, its a small 7%.

  8. Re:Speaking as a Canadian... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please mod the parent as a troll. The U.S. was in great shape DUE to Clinton. Bush and his greedy bastard henchmen fucked it all up. Oh yeah... Michael Sims is a dickhead. (Watch how fast this post gets modded offtopic)

  9. I'm 22 by empaler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And I live on another continent. I've heard it at least a dozen times. It's fairly disgusting.

  10. Re:Speaking as a Canadian... by fred911 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "The U.S. was in great shape DUE to Clinton". Isn't close. The U.S. was in great shape in Clinton's presidency due to Regan's economic policy. Bush now has Clinton's economic policy to clean up.

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  11. Re:Speaking as a Canadian... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Clinton took an economy augured-in by a previous Bush and his Oil and Armamament-cronyism and turned it around.

    OKC was the fishiest "terrorist attack" since, well, 911.

    Bush Jnr and his cronys were about to take it up the ass, and then we were suddenly attacked by "terrorists".

    Every single time anybody questions any aspect of the Bush Administrations policies and behavior, we get another "terrorist" attack, of one kind or another (refer beheading when Rumsfeld is on the ropes: all good patriotic Red-blooded Americans(tm) are now once again saying "Do Whatever It Takes").

    You are a FUCKWAD!

  12. Re:One nice thing about working in Canada... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    heh... scroll down to the bottom of this travel tips page... sad but true I'm afraid...