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#201 sdwright.vic

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Posted 12 January 2019 - 01:56 PM

Ha! Thrifty's is not union. Even with union, my every keystroke is tracked at work (digital equivalent of a camara on me) My union knows this, and trust me management isn't saying its to prevent robberies, they tell you the exact reason why in orientation.

Edited by sdwright.vic, 12 January 2019 - 01:57 PM.

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#202 jonny

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Posted 12 January 2019 - 02:08 PM

Go back and re read my first post on this subject. You're arguing points I never made. The topic was CCTV cameras. I already stated that workers in a public space have a reduced expectation of privacy, but you're still going on about the cashier thing.

Anyway, here's a good article on the subject.

https://www.legallin...-the-workplace/

"Generally speaking, Canadian courts have not looked favourably on employers who install surveillance cameras to spy on employees without good reason."
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#203 tjv

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Posted 12 January 2019 - 04:14 PM

It depends on a lot of things. I have personally been involved in several cases where we have terminated employees (in a union environment) with cause using camera footage that proved theft.

Generally, if an employee works in a public space (i.e. retail) there is no general expectation of privacy and you can use surveillance footage. But you have to have cause. You can't just pick on somebody and watch them or monitor your employees for the hell of it. Everybody has an expectation of some privacy.

And generally the surveillance cameras can't be there just to monitor employees. Like you can't put a CCTV camera over Jonny's desk because you want to watch him spin around in his chair and tweet all day. They have to be installed under the guise of protecting assets, preventing theft, etc.

Thanks for clarifying that, I had heard something different many years ago.  So basically the public store area is fine, but the storeroom isn't.

 

As to the last paragraph I don't see any difference between stealing from the cash register or spin around in his chair



#204 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 12 January 2019 - 04:55 PM

you mean the wear and tear on the chair spin mechanism or the company time spent spinning?

what’s your chair spin rpm Jonny?

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#205 Cats4Hire

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Posted 12 January 2019 - 05:03 PM

Any of the new winter shows/returns catch anyone's interest? I've mostly just been watching reruns and Netflix stuff lately.
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#206 Matt R.

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Posted 12 January 2019 - 05:19 PM

This is the garbage thread, no?

I watch Seal Team every week. Get my Boreanaz fix. Also, just about finished the Idris Elba show “In the Long Run”. Great stuff. One of these shows is garbage, one is not.

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#207 LJ

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Posted 15 January 2019 - 07:41 PM

I watched 60 Minutes last week and they had a guy on there that has developed an economical way to get cellulose out of plants with which he can and does make plant based plastic that can be programmed to decay within days or last for years. You can use it for fuel, sugar, and a bunch of other things as well.

A bunch of very knowledgeable folks on the program said that this could replace 20% - 30% of fossil fuels in the future.

 

https://www.xyleco.com/


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#208 tjv

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Posted 17 January 2019 - 09:18 AM

Does anyone know if CRD is recycling all items they collect with the China ban?



#209 Rob Randall

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Posted 17 January 2019 - 09:24 AM

I doubt you will ever get a straight answer to that question.



#210 Coreyburger

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Posted 17 January 2019 - 10:19 AM

Does anyone know if CRD is recycling all items they collect with the China ban?

 

Apparently yes. Dig into the CRD archives for Oct/Nov last year. There was a staff report that said that because our recycling is relatively clean, we still have a market.


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#211 todd

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Posted 17 January 2019 - 03:11 PM

Why didn’t somebody open up a bottle throwing range? Saw the other day somebody started up a raccoon comfort therapy place got to be better than golf.

#212 sam

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Posted 05 May 2019 - 09:56 AM

For the record, here's a comprehensive examination of the current situation regarding recycling of plastic in the CRD: https://www.focusonv...astic-tide-r15/



#213 todd

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Posted 05 May 2019 - 10:28 AM

I would wager most of the bits of plastic you find around the area photographed with the girls is coming from the notorious overflowing sewer systems oak bay has.

#214 Jacques Cadé

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Posted 06 May 2019 - 03:05 PM

Bottle Depot has announced that as of May 13 it will no longer take Blue-Box materials (glass, metal, paper, hard plastic), plastic bags, styrofoam, or any flexible plastic packaging, because the cost of handling those items is greater than the money they get from RecycleBC: http://bottledepot.ca/?page_id=1301

 

Spoke with Bottle Depot's GM, and she said they're getting an "overwhelming amount" of such material filling up their yards, waiting for RecycleBC to take it away.


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#215 Rob Randall

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Posted 06 May 2019 - 03:16 PM

If what the Bottle Depot is saying is true, wouldn't it be easy to add a penny to the electronics eco-fee to recoup the cost? I don't know how you'd easily add a fee to food containers, though. Electronics retailers would be shouldering the financial load. 

 

There are still some places to take styrofoam:

 

https://www.crd.bc.c...ners#Facilities



#216 Jacques Cadé

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Posted 06 May 2019 - 03:26 PM

The timing is not coincidental. RecycleBC's five-year plan is up for provincial review, and Bottle Depot wants customers to contact the Ministry of Environment to increase the eco-fees on packaging to better cover the cost of handling it.

 

Electronics are covered by a different program (Encorp, the same guys that do beverage containers, go figure), not RecycleBC: https://www.rcbc.ca/...ng-programs/epr


Edited by Jacques Cadé, 06 May 2019 - 03:26 PM.


#217 Rob Randall

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Posted 06 May 2019 - 03:34 PM

Ah, yes, different programs. Still, I don't know why the grownups can't figure this out. I understand nobody likes to see retail prices go up but clearly existing fees are totally inadequate. 



#218 jonny

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Posted 07 May 2019 - 08:02 AM

The solution seems to be to eventually eliminate the amount of non-biodegradable packaging and products that we use, which requires utilizing massive amounts of paper unless somebody comes up with some sort of rapidly compostable plastic-y product that breaks down into inert compounds in the environment. 

 

I guess we better cut down the trees before they get taken out by forest fires?

 

I had an earth and ocean sciences prof at UVic say this problem would persist until bacteria evolved to be able to eat plastic (this was circa 2006-ish). 


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#219 lanforod

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Posted 07 May 2019 - 09:55 AM

A lot of packaging is very wasteful it seems. Far more packaging seems used than necessary for a lot of goods. Thankfully Amazon stopped sticking my boxes of diapers inside of other boxes... usually.



#220 Mike K.

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Posted 07 May 2019 - 10:12 AM

You’d be surprised by how a little more packaging helps reduce damage and returns. Shipping personal effects like diapers in a box, which are already in a box, reduces the likelihood of issues stemming from tampered packages or safety concerns.

No company wants to spend more on packaging or reduce the volume of items they can ship from the factory due to package size, but it’s a necessity on many fronts (even something like theft affects packaging size, so we see little items surrounded by comparatively larger packaging to reduce the likelihood of theft).
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