Layoffs are a popular topic - whether you're at KPMG, Deloitte, E&Y or PwC, or any of the other smaller regional or local CA firms, you want to know whether your job is safe. Although some firms are improving communications with their employees, in many cases people often don't know what's...

Just in time for Christmas, users of Facebook application Big Photo - which allows you to share a larger copy of the photos you've uploaded online - were informed that their application is being taken over and will now be users of the SpeedDate application. At the moment that probably means that...

I got one of my friends Water Rant for his birthday - it's a book based on the blog written by The Waiter; he recently wrote about his short field trip to buy coffee and ask questions at a Dunkin' Donuts shop, where he learns that monthly tipping has fallen from $500 to $350 for the two young...

One of my friends just pointed out this article in the Globe, which explains how the buyout of Bell Canada by one of Canada's largest Teachers' Pension funds is on the verge of falling through completely. A teacher's pension plan buying one of Canada's largest corporations? Yes, our teachers...

Flying to Washington on three private jets to ask for billions of dollars ? Clever. I feel bad for the workers in the auto industry, but if I was working in that field, I would be planning an exit strategy around now, unless I was in a position to improve things. Especially because the heads of the companies...

No matter how bad things are, something invariably comes along to put things in perspective. And I say that while knowing things actually aren't bad at all. This past morning was another good day - it seemed like everything was going well. And in general, it was. With a CD playing Arcade Fire, my...

Ages ago I linked to GarfieldMinusGarfield , and was in awe of the hilarity created by removing Garfield from the comic strip, and instead making the focus on inept Jon Arbuckle. Restoring my faith in humanity, Jim Davis, the original Garfield's creator not only likes this crazy concept , but they've...

I'm not at all surprised that you'll find my site if you Google big four Canada overtime - I already pointed out that three of the big four are paying out overtime to their non-CA staff and seniors . n.b. provincial laws treat CA, CGA, CMA and CPA and students registered to study for those designations...

Before I continue - there's been enough misreporting on various other sites that I have to make this very clear: Chartered Accountants in Canada do NOT get paid overtime at CA firms and are NOT going to be paid overtime. More on that in a moment, but basically CAs are exempt under most labour laws...

Way back in university I developed an intense dislike for psycho activists. You know the kind. You say something innocuous. Say, for example, that they should buy the green bike instead the blue one, and they start screaming "HATE CRIME!!!!!!" in your face. Above: Alternate Strike Vehicle #1...