There are some nice benefits to working for the government (Drew) or an educational institution (me).\u00a0 You get most statuatory holidays off.\u00a0 When I first started working out of college I loved working on stat holidays to gain the 2.5x pay amount for hours worked.\u00a0 If you met all the prerequisites for stat pay and managed to please the gods and get scheduled off<\/strike> took the day off you’d be paid as if you’d gone to work that day.\u00a0 But if you bowed down to the world of slave labour then working a stat holiday could result in a fancy night out to dinner or a new item for the home.\u00a0 After a few years I was promoted to a management position with salary instead of hourly wages.\u00a0 Gone were the days of working stats for extra money.\u00a0 Instead we got stats off.\u00a0 If we worked them we were entitled to days in lieu.\u00a0 Since I worked for an American company with a different series of stats than Canada, we often worked our stats and used our days in lieu on US stats because the company was shut down on those days.\u00a0 While the not so new job is salary it is a Canadian company and I get stats off again.\u00a0 Wheeee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are some nice benefits to working for the government (Drew) or an educational institution (me).\u00a0 You get most statuatory holidays off.\u00a0 When I first started working out of college I loved working on stat holidays to gain the 2.5x pay amount for hours worked.\u00a0 If you met all the prerequisites for stat pay and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-a-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}