been thinking about the difficulties of sorting things out with government departments…
recently a young friend has been struggling with Service Canada regarding a mat leave…
reminds me of the difficulties I encountered when I was on sick leave last year and two years before that…
if you can get to an actual person they are usually very helpful, although I did discover that one would say one thing, and the next person might say the exact opposite… and when you are worried about getting the funding you do everything you can to do exactly as they say so that everything works out and you actually get the money…
in the end, last year I received about a thousand dollars… can’t even imagine what it cost in my time and our Finance person’s time… dozens of phone calls to the government, many calls to my colleague at work… huge amounts of stress… pages of paperwork done and redone… sick time and vacation time used up and then advised by the government that I owed them more in taxes because I hadn’t received a record of the amount of money that had eventually been paid to me…
I know it’s in here somewhere…
the system is rather crazy… maybe one day they will make it user-friendly, lol…
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