Yes, absolutely. Maternity leave is payed out to you by the government. It works very similar to EI. You (general you) need roughly 630 hours accumulated within the year prior to your leave to qualify. Like EI, the government will pay out a certain percentage of the monthly wage you were taking home prior to your leave, with the maximum being around $1800.00 per month or so I think.

IMO that woman was very rude. I feel like if you are up front and honest with your employer from the start it will work out for you much more favourably.

When my new employer hired me on the spot during the interview I politely stopped him and let him know that before we get to that point I wanted to let him know I was expecting. Funny guy, he looked at me and said, "Expecting what? A baby?" The smart+++ in me wanted to say, "No, I'm expecting to make more than whatever they're paying you!". Luckily I managed to keep my mouth shut, lol. He then took a moment to think about it and said, "That's okay, we were going to hire you anyway". Cool, now I don't have to look like a douchebag when I tell you a week after I start that I'll be leaving in 4 months.

I wasn't even going to apply anywhere else as I like the work I'm doing now and I don't like bouncing around all over the place when it comes to employment. I prefer to get comfortable somewhere and stick around, especially while pregnant. Who wants to switch jobs for just a few months anyway? The problem is things have gotten very strange around here and there's a reason I built up the courage to apply elsewhere in my present condition. It was either quit or switch jobs, you know?

Anyway, enough about that... Have three drinks for me, girl! I'll just sit over here with my shirley temple :mrgreen:.

Well another grandson on the way & I am 6 hrs away working :sad:


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Hey, congrats Greg..... I just found out recently that I'm goona be a grandpa too...... Kinda freaks me out:surprise:

Congrats to you as well Dougster. This will make #5 for me. 3 grandsons & twin girls.


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Congrats to both of you
Nothin' like havin' your kids make you Grandparents when you're so young, right ? :rolleyes:
All the more time to play with 'em :smile:

Just did my first shift at RCE.... Man it's good to be back at a fish store:biggrin:

i see a cool nano in a store and i cannot find it online not even the stores website thats just wrong on so many levels

Awesome.. looking in the sump and my skimmer isn't running.. probably for a few days as there is no skimmate since I cleaned it on Friday. Ugh... Now I gotta pull this bugger apart tomorrow and see if its broken. In the mean time if it is in fact buggered, let me know if you have a tunze 9002 you would part with. :sad: not happy about this.

Did you plug it back in after the cleaning? :razz: