My buddy in Calgary needs a job, any suggestions?

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Hi folks!

I'm on a mission of mercy here- trying to help out a buddy of mine.

He lives in Calgary and is unemployed. His pogey is gonna run out and could really use a job.

In a way he's like me, in a way he's not. He has no pilot knowledge and could possibly throw bags or be trained as a dispatcher. He's smart, but only has a high school diploma. He has a criminal record which doesn't help.

I will stake my entire Avcanada reputation on this guy as I know he would not lie, cheat or steal from anyone.

Please post or pm me for any job leads this guy could get doing anything, he's having really bad luck so far. Doesn't have to be aviation related.

Yeah, it's a shot in the dark, but the guy has to pay Calgary rent and I KNOW he will not @#$! an employer around- unless something's unsafe. That's why he's unemployed now. The employer wanted him to drive around in an unsafe truck and he refused.

Thanks in advance,

-istp

[BibleMonkey]

any suggestions?

his pogey is gonna run out.

Go to SAIT . Do a career investigation, and a career investigation letter. Say-that "how to sterilize hospital stuff " techy course-or whatever short ( less than 20 month long ) technical course is not stuffed full, and he could stand potentially doing later.

Go to the pogey office with a fresh haircut, covered up tattoos, no staples in your face, and talk to the nice lady that sits behind the pogey-receptionist-people-that-try to screen you out, and after waiting in the waiting room all day to see Mrs Career-training lady, tell her you've done a career investigation of "Sterilizing Hospital Stuff " ( or whatever at SAIT )-here is the start date, here is the cost, here is my qualifications to get started at enrolling in "Sterilizing Hospital Stuff " , here is alla the jobs I applied for and can't get.

The pogey people like people that make it easy for them to put tick marks in the forms ( someone that comes in with very detailed exact names/dates/costs on specific retraining "I want this exact one" as opposed to the guy wandering in to the pogey office who asks just general questions, wants to "get retrained in something"-he gets sent to a 8 hour resume writing course, drops off the pogey roll, and dies of starvation . They have re-training stuff available. Maybe still do.

http://sait.ca/pages/studentservices/pa ... time.shtml

" If you are currently unemployed, considered a long-tenured worker and have received a letter from the Canada Employment Insurance Commission regarding the Extended Employment Insurance and Training incentive (EETI) or the Severance investment for Training Initiative (SITI), Please click here for more information pertaining to this program.

Important Notice for Employment Insurance (EI) Applicants/Recipients:

If you are receiving or have recently applied for Employment Insurance (EI) Benefits, you are still required to complete the SAIT-SIP funding eligibility assessment process. If you begin your SAIT training without seeking SIP funding approval though the SAIT SIP office in Heart Building (MC 221), your Employment Insurance benefits will be discontinued.

This approval and SIP Case Management process applies to:

* Individuals in need of full financial assistance (tuition, books & living allowance)
* Individuals seeking only the continuation of current or proposed EI benefits while attending training and are not receiving any SIP funding.

It is highly recommended that learners who wish to collect EI benefits while in full-time studies should complete this assessment process three months prior to the start of the training program."

If you can get the right pogey lady on the right day, and the right course-I know of people who get paid to go to school for a year -pogey plus babysitting money plus gas money plus longer pogey.

Don't F*(k up the course or skip class etc. obviously.

If that don't work, get on the Grey Hound Bus to Red Deer College 90 miles North of Calgary and try there.

If that don't work get on the Greyhound bus to Edmonton, and try there ( Grant Mckewan, NAIT, ........

The pogey people , of course, put up administrative hassles through which only the patient, well prepared -and/or lucky get through.

Someone told me their published rules ( three months , long tenured ) are less important than getting the right ( easy to justify to their boss) tick marks on their forms. Some people may not have recieved letter x from person y, but if the pogey lady gets a prepared , justifiable package from the unemployed guy, they might rubber stamp it ( Tech college EI funding extension , pay the tuition , etc ) through.

Federal budget very general retraining stuff -maybe they blew it all on bribes or something , though...
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/eng/corporate/bu ... ndex.shtml

Anyway, might be a good time to get a small ticket in something.
Good luck to your pal, whatever happens.

[HS-748 2A]

He should go to Newfoundland and work on the rigs.

[SkySailor]

You state he rejected driving an unsafe truck. Surely in Alberta there must be a safe truck looking for a driver.

[Dash-Ate]

He has a criminal record which doesn't help.

I will stake my entire Avcanada reputation on this guy as I know he would not lie, cheat or steal from anyone.

I learn something new every day.

[Geko]

He has a criminal record which doesn't help.

I will stake my entire Avcanada reputation on this guy as I know he would not lie, cheat or steal from anyone.

I learn something new every day.

Why does that confuse you? I'm of course referring to your emoticon.

My brother has a criminal record due to a stupid decision to drive while on a suspended license. The suspended license comes about because he drives too fast. I won't bother getting into a debate about speeding tickets with anyone here, so don't waist your time.

Yes the decision to drive while his license was suspended was utterly fucking retarded but that doesn't make him the devil. He still has morals despite what you might think of idiots. He made a series of stupid decisions when it came to driving.

This doesn't come off as the best way to showcase a person but I can empathize with ISTP.

I wholly and utterly acknowledge the fact he made the stupid decision to drive that day. Rather, all I can do is make fun of him and hope that he learns from his mistakes.

[ottawa,kan]

One of the better guys I ever hired was on work release from jail. I needed someone basically full time temporary for a real manual labor type job that we got all of a sudden. This guy was in jail for multiple DUI, he had a drinking problem, lived in a tiny town of about 300 people in BFE and just kept driving and driving on his suspened license. ANyway he finally shaped up but had to do 6 months in county and I think he doesn't get to drive again until 2014 or something. HIs dad (retired) would pick him up in the morning and drive him right over to the local 7-11 and he'd get a huge mountain dew and two packs of Marlboros. No smokes and no caffeine in jail. He'd kill both by noon, buy another round at lunch, kill that by 4 and get another smaller hit on the way back to jail. This guy was 100% reliable...of course I was his only ticket out for work release. But he was a pretty moral guy too, really likeable and he worked his butt off. After he got out I recommended him a couple of times.

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Go to the pogey office with a fresh haircut, covered up tattoos, no staples in your face, and talk to the nice lady that sits behind the pogey-receptionist-people-that-try to screen you out, and after waiting in the waiting room all day to see Mrs Career-training lady, tell her you've done a career investigation of "Sterilizing Hospital Stuff " ( or whatever at SAIT )-here is the start date, here is the cost, here is my qualifications to get started at enrolling in "Sterilizing Hospital Stuff " , here is alla the jobs I applied for and can't get.

In ALL seriousness...would this "tactic" also apply if someone went in there and asked for money for a 737NG type rating because Canjet advertised and got not one Canadian with this type rating?

[BoostedNihilist]

In ALL seriousness...would this "tactic" also apply if someone went in there and asked for money for a 737NG type rating because Canjet advertised and got not one Canadian with this type rating?

They don't pay it all, like 70% and if you can find a NG course at a canadian accredited (by their system) school then yes.

They were going to pay for my CPL but the timing didn't quite work.

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In ALL seriousness...would this "tactic" also apply if someone went in there and asked for money for a 737NG type rating because Canjet advertised and got not one Canadian with this type rating?

They don't pay it all, like 70% and if you can find a NG course at a canadian accredited (by their system) school then yes.

They were going to pay for my CPL but the timing didn't quite work.

Understood.

By their same logic would a Canadian cancer surgeon be looked over because of lack of training on state of the art equipment and a German doctor "typed" on the new equipment be imported to Canada to operate on Canadian patients?

Cancer is cancer....FLYING IS FLYING....There's a grift in the system. I'll shut up now...it only hurts my career when I inject logic into Canadian aviation.

My last post. The end.

[BoostedNihilist]

hey birdog, you preacher me choir

[Dash-Ate]

One of the better guys I ever hired was on work release from jail. I needed someone basically full time temporary for a real manual labor type job that we got all of a sudden. This guy was in jail for multiple DUI, he had a drinking problem, lived in a tiny town of about 300 people in BFE and just kept driving and driving on his suspened license. ANyway he finally shaped up but had to do 6 months in county and I think he doesn't get to drive again until 2014 or something. HIs dad (retired) would pick him up in the morning and drive him right over to the local 7-11 and he'd get a huge mountain dew and two packs of Marlboros. No smokes and no caffeine in jail. He'd kill both by noon, buy another round at lunch, kill that by 4 and get another smaller hit on the way back to jail. This guy was 100% reliable...of course I was his only ticket out for work release. But he was a pretty moral guy too, really likeable and he worked his butt off. After he got out I recommended him a couple of times.

A raging addict with no self control or willpower to change. Very reliable. Addicts get a bad name but they are actually very trustworth!!