Part 8: Has your office/company laid people off or is the worst of it over?

[suntan]

My bet is massage parlours at the New Horizon Mall.

[schurchill39]

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My bet is massage parlours at the New Horizon Mall.

I look forward to the one stop shop for all my rub and tug needs

[adam c]

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if anyone wants to know, PM me.

You mean you don’t want to play that sounds like name game?

[nickyh]

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You mean you don’t want to play that sounds like name game?

SplInterpipe

[bjstare]

Haha nice. I know someone who just started there. Go figure.

[gpomp]

Laid off from engineering job in 2016 and have been working for slightly above minimum wage for the past 2 years. My lifestyle has changed dramatically.

[nzwasp]

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SplInterpipe

Are the positions field based near deadmonton though?

[nickyh]

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Are the positions field based near deadmonton though?

The Heartland complex is in Strathcona county which is were most of the new positions will be based, but we have field ops in Sherwood Park all the way down past Lethbridge at the various stations / terminals we own, Ft McMurray, Ft McKay. We are mostly in AB, except for the Kerrobert pipeline.

[colinxx235]

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SplInterpipe

You work at the dream company, I wish. They had some PE postings up about 5-6 months ago and I used to work with a guy who got picked up there last year. He said the posting had > 1000 applications and he was personally asked for 6 internal references on it. Needless to say I didn't even get to interview stage

[Darkane]

Project, Power, Process, or petroleum Engineer?

[colinxx235]

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Project sorry. I'm so used to everyone at EPC calling us PEs and usually naming Process full. Mech degree, granted funny enough i've done a chunk of process as well.

[INITIALD]

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Laid off from engineering job in 2016 and have been working for slightly above minimum wage for the past 2 years. My lifestyle has changed dramatically.

I see the pics from all the restaurants you eat at

[Tik-Tok]

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I see the pics from all the restaurants you eat at

Eating at or working at?

[Neons4life]

What options does an employee have when a company is unable to pay their wage for that 2 week period? Stay working and hope to be compensated, refuse to work until paid, leave and see if can go on EI?

[ExtraSlow]

If it's a single two week period, and you'd like to keep working there in future, suck it up.

[HiTempguy1]

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Stay working and hope to be compensated

Good luck with that. If they are at that point, they are probably just going to string you along unpaid as long as they can, then fold. It's business, they have zero interest in looking out for you.

[dirtsniffer]

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What options does an employee have when a company is unable to pay their wage for that 2 week period? Stay working and hope to be compensated, refuse to work until paid, leave and see if can go on EI?

Personally, I wouldn't go back until they paid. Or giving you a portion of the company.

Taking risk for no benefit is not worth it.

[bjstare]

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What options does an employee have when a company is unable to pay their wage for that 2 week period? Stay working and hope to be compensated, refuse to work until paid, leave and see if can go on EI?

Start looking for jobs, but in the meantime... do you have anything better to do? I'd probably put in a little effort at work while actively looking for new opportunities.

Unless you can't make ends meet for another month or two without pay, then obviously EI.

[msommers]

Things seem to be a little bit better than I remember compared to a couple years ago. Got a couple interviews lined up right off the bat which is positive. One of which is all weekend long, I shit you not; Friday evening - Sunday evening...

Everything these days is contract. 4 month, 6 month, 1 year...barely anyone is hiring for full-time jobs when they can just string you along for as long as possible.

[Black Gts]

Any crane ops in here? What's it looking like outside of gp? I'm working but looking.