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Originally Posted by mikemhg

It's also BC Ferries stupid hiring governance.

They hire new employees on a contract on-call basis, meaning you're not given any defined hours, and expected to be fully on-call.

Who in the hell in this city can take on a new job in a non-defined hourly basis?

Add to the fact that on many of these ferry routes they expect you to reside near the actual route. My nephew for example works on the Langdale route, when he started his hours were all over the place, some weeks none, some a bunch, you're called early in the morning to be told whether or not you'll be working that day.

This is compounded by the fact that many of these communities no longer have any affordable rental supply, who can or will work these initial gigs on the ferries? Back in the day you could find an affordable rental or place in Sechelt/Gibsons/Langdale, now you can't. That combined with variable hours = good fucking luck finding people.

That seems so backasswards. They have to have permanent roles to fill and can't just temp their way through everything.