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Help me figure out this Mystery Roe

qvtqht — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:54:46 -0800

A few weeks ago, I ate a strange sushi made with a large black roe. Does anyone know what it is? A friend was at a Japanese restaurant in Brooklyn and picked up an order for me too. Among other things, I asked for a piece of salmon roe sushi.

They said that they were out of salmon roe, but they have _____, and it was just delivered, so it is really fresh, and would be a good substitute.

_____ turned out to be something very dark, if not black. It looked a little bigger than any salmon roe I've seen. It tasted similar to salmon roe, but sweeter. It seemed very fresh indeed. There was no fishy taste at all, but fresh salmon roe doesn't have a fishy taste either.

It did not look dyed, but I could be wrong about that.

Has anyone encountered anything like this? Any idea what it was? I liked it, and wouldn't mind eating some more in the future.

When is the earliest I can expect an ROE from Canadian contract work?

jon_kill — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:28:24 -0800

A question regarding a Record of Employment for contract work in Canada. [asking on behalf of a friend]

My contract is finishing on the 19th of December. There has been an extension on the contract that I signed last week, so the end-date is a known quantity to both myself and management and is not in dispute.

However, the HR rep is now telling me that my ROE won't be issued until the 30th of December because that is when I am getting my last paycheque.

If you are familiar with the Canadian EI system, you know that I can't complete my application until I have my ROE in hand, so that potentially implies up to 2 weeks more without cash flow.

When I read the governments rules and regulations regarding ROE issuance, I see that they have to issue it within five days of the end date, or within five days of becoming aware of the "work interruption".

All that being said, do I have a legal leg to stand on in demanding my ROE be issued immediately (per the work interruption clause), or, barring that, on the last day of my employment? When is the earliest I can require my ROE to be in my hand?

What's more, can I apply for EI now or before my contract is over, as I know the end-date of my contract, assuming that I do get my ROE from them?

EI and sickness leave info needed, please help!

grippycat — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:28:51 -0800

EI and sickness leave info needed, please help! Hi, y'all. First off, let me admit I'm stupid, and really really fucked up. Bad kitty, no treats. Skip the details below and go directly to the question, if preferred.

Shortly after my last question, a crisis/opportunity came up at work (a small startup) that required batch data correction jobs to be coded and run nightly; I really needed the distraction at that time, and began working extremely odd hours - essentially, 15-hr days with naps between batch jobs.

This worked great for me through the end of July - I could schedule doctor's appointments, meetings with friends to get me out of the house... and reported directly to the COO. Our software was set to go live at the beginning of August, and I had booked the first two weeks of August off.

I came to notice that in addition to my vacation, every other senior staff member had also booked the same two weeks off. I brought it to management's attention, and offered to stay the two weeks and try to keep the app stable, with the full understanding that I'd be able to take that time off immediately after.

I was really trying to hold it together, but of course, all hell broke loose. The COO quit. We have no project management, so customers would call the owner directly threatening hellfire - meaning I'd be asked to drop what I'm doing NOW and fix this new problem NOW! We also have no network administrator, and were trying to track down causes of network storms and dropped connections in addition to all that. I was still on the same hours, and starting to suffer from severe sleep deprivation. My vacation was not happening: we need to fix everything now or the company will go under OMG BIG FIRE!!!

Then, as the hours really prevented me from being in the office too often (I'd essentially be coordinating OMG FIRE!! plans directly with the senior development team to make sure we wouldn't be duplicating the same work) - the decidedly nontechnical management that were left decided that as I'm not in the office, I must not "do anything", "have no visibility", and "don't let the right hand know what the left is doing".

As you can imagine, the hours, lack of sleep and absolute insanity turned me into a frothy, raging bitch - and I finally lost my shit completely, went on med leave on the 29th.

There's no short-term disability coverage with our group insurance plan, so I applied for EI. The company is not providing my record of employment, nor confirming how many vacation days I had left (I was told they only have a bookkeeper in once a month, but they're "trying to get to it sooner").

Um, so my question:
In Ontario, is there anything else to do besides reporting to EI a company's noncompliance in providing your Record of Employment and number of vacation days when you're applying for sickness benefits? I can't work right now, and with EI at least I'd know I could still pay my bills - I've never been on any kind of EI before, I don't know how to do this.

Salmon Eggs - not caviar, but not bait either

dbmcd — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:45:33 -0800

What to do with a plethora of salmon eggs? We just bought over 50 lbs of fresh-caught, uncleaned King Salmon. When we cleaned it we ended up with over 3 quarts of fresh salmon eggs. What can/should we do with this? Feed it to our cats? Eat it (and if so, how to prepare)? Sell/give to fisherman? Help us, all-knowing hive mind!

Why aren't women who abort punished?

amberglow — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:00:29 -0800

Why do people who are fighting for abortion to be made completely illegal never ever talk about what punishment the woman should get? If it's murder, why isn't the woman who gets prosecuted? Why just doctors? How does that make any sense, if it's really murder? Isn't the woman a criminal too in their eyes? (i've been wondering this for quite a while, and this post at digby occasioned this q)