Would You Forfeit a Raise to Work From Home?

harryk asks: "There seems to have been a fair amount of talk about new jobs, telecommuting, and fair pay recently, so I pose this question: Would you forfeit some or all of a potential raise to work from home? My company is notoroisly bad about giving decent raises so I have been contemplating offering an alternative to receiving a raise, or a reduced raise with an expense reimbursement for telecommuting? What are your thoughts?"

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Re:No way.

[renehollan]

I am Canadian, and thus subject to Canadian law if my wife returns to Canada: Canada and the U.S. have treaties regarding "deadbeat" spouses.

The feminazis there have lobbied for laws that basically make any accusation a woman makes against a man taken as fact, i.e. "he beats me"; but any accusation a man makes against a woman as requiring proof beyond a resonable doubt, i.e. "she does not meet her obligations under the marriage contract."

Furthermore, a husband must support a spouse in the manner to which she is accustomed, or go to jail -- one can't, for example, take a lower paying, but more-satisfying job, without worrying about the "deadbeat police". (Admitedly, this happens rarely, but it is a stick the commies there have to keep people making the highest possible wages and paying the correspondinh high taxes).

We are in the U.S. If she returns to Canada, I am taxed as a Canadian resident, and could not possibly support her lifestyle there, without triple the salary. Thus, I'd be a "deadbeat" husband, and subject to deporatation to Canada and jailing.

And people wonder why I hate Canada so much.

Now, about that "bitter", thing, you were saying?