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Canada Day is almost here. Last Friday my employer told us that we will be working that day, and instead will be getting the following Monday off. I personally don’t care. I would rather have a long weekend than a Wednesday off, but I do understand the irritation that some of my coworkers are expressing about ‘them’ just deciding to make ‘us’ come in on a statutory holiday.
I'm very flippant about it. Like, blah whatever, I would rather have the Monday off instead of the stat holiday, blah blah blah, I'm compliant. What can I do though? Should I show up at work Canada Day and march around the parking lot by myself with a sign that has a crossed out sheep inside of a red circle instead of going into work? Yell obscenities and things about weak compliance, f'n sheeple!, at all my coworkers while they go in the door?
Then what? I envision an outcome of eye rolls, wtf's, face palms, and laughter, and the only thing changing would be me old and exhausted, jobless, with no income at all, instead of being a tired old underpaid over worked worker.
We should keep in mind that for several years now Province of Ontario has been governed by majority conservative with a leader who doesn’t think that any of ‘us’ deserve to have any rights at all. You know, ‘us’, the ones doing the work and then giving nearly every cent of our insufficient incomes back to corporations who are simultaneously overcharging, underpaying and exploiting us.
The very first thing he did on day one after he was elected was to make sure we no longer had two paid sick days per year. He scrapped that, and celebrated doing it. You could almost hear the buttons popping off of the shirts covering overstuffed bellies of corporate executives and business owners while they laughed and laughed. They patted him on the back while professing their undying love.
I don't know. Maybe that is not the reason my employer can make us work a stat holiday. Maybe they always could (likely), but still I wonder. Maybe he did sneak an obscure item into some other shady bill that says, of course you can make them work on a stat holiday. Just simply tell them that they have to, and tell them which day they can have instead. Same way he took away our sick days, and how he changed how much break time employers have to give their workers.
He likely has his own custom made toilet paper with the Employment Standards Act printed on it. It would be made from Green Belt trees secretly cut down in the middle of the night.
More recently there were headlines about how they wanted to eliminate rent control for all landlords, instead of just for owners of properties built after 2018. I heard he has a lot of friends who are parasitic landlords. They all got erections thinking about how high they would be able to raise rent. If the sky became the limit they would raise it to the moon! Yeehahh!
It was very quickly taken off the table. Back to flaccid. Aw, poor them. I don’t imagine the conservatives suddenly started caring about tenant rights. It was more likely from how many people freaked out about it as soon as the news broke. They would have lost voters.
He likely sent out a text to all his parasitic landlord buddies, 'sorry boys, you can't triple the rent next year or I might be out of a job. People got mad at me. I don't know why. Like wtf, who doesn't want to pay triple the rent so y'all can get richer than you already are? Sheesh! :('
How would we know anything about a text like that though, right? He spends millions of our tax dollars making sure all his communications are kept private.
Losing voters might also be the reason that he went into hiding when truck drivers were occupying the streets of Ottawa so they could whine about science, wearing masks, and getting needles. The majority of the participants there were likely his supporters, and he wouldn't want to alienate them by sending in forces with riot gear, tear gas, rubber bullets, and water canons like he should have. So he just took a vacation. Or maybe more accurately, he took another vacation.