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davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 7

(6/6) in-person weekly days -> no maximum of 3 that might've otherwise prompted me to apply for that job

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 7

(5/) a match with the payroll administrator job I'd hoped to apply for
- #Mississauga, #Ontario-based accounting clerk job that, whether via the #Indeed (ca.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=6...) or #Workopolis (www.workopolis.com/jobsearch/vi...) ad, would've required the successful candidate to work ≥3

Payroll Benefits Specialist

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 7

(4/) address to send resume or, barring that, alternate electronic means of communication
-- the closest job I could find, on the website of the company offering the payroll administrator job, having been a payroll benefits specialist one (www.theportfoliogroup.com/payroll/jobs...) that hadn't been

Portfolio Payroll is seeking an experienced Payroll Benefits Specialist to join and support our payroll team. If you are a payroll professional with the right skills and experience, please review the ...

www.theportfoliogroup.com

Junior Bookkeeper - Big Rose Bookkeeping | Nanaimo, BC

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 7

(3/) (www.workopolis.com/jobsearch/vi...)
- North York-based payroll administrator position offered by a company with a Downtown #Toronto street address (www.theportfoliogroup.com/contact-us/) but lengthy working hours (8.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Wednesday) and with:
-- it unclear to which email

Account Payable Associate (Part-Time) - Article | Vancouver, BC

2

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 7

(2/) from Southern #Ontario [with #Toronto my city of residence]), I found none of them had been WFH but did find a:
- #Vancouver, BC-based 3-in-person-weekly-day AP associate one (www.workopolis.com/jobsearch/vi...)
- #Nanaimo, BC-based junior bookkeeper position

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 7

(1/) To some degree #workopolis is a good way to find jobs. That said, it does have its limitations at least with respect to #workfromhome (WFH) jobs. On Saturday evening EDT (GMT-04:00), in a search for WFH #parttime jobs (after searches for #fulltime WFH jobs had often resulted in jobs based far

David on X: "(2/2) mind about going to the #GouldingPark #tennis🎾 event (https://t.co/v45VsocfIG) I had hoped to host via the relevant @meetup group. I mention in the previous tweet an event in June 2018 that I had to cut short due to heavy #rain. https://t.co/Gbf5EHYy0J" / X

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 6

(8/8) the time has come to shift to this month's Moss Park one. I look forward to seeing those of you who sign up to this month's Moss Park event at that event if you are eligible to sign up for that event (i.e. not serving a suspension due to a no-show).

David ≫

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 3

(54/54) I likely will cancel this month's Moss and Goulding events if, to the Cedarvale event:
- no more than 1 member of the sports group joins me
AND
- there's at least 1 no-show

On a much happier note I look forward to seeing those who sign up for the Cedarvale event at that event.

David ≫

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 6

(7/) "cancel this month's Moss and Goulding events if, to the Cedarvale event:
- no more than 1 member of the sports group joins me
AND
- there's at least 1 no-show" (bsky.app/profile/davw...)

With the Cedarvale Park event a success (with 3 who joined me AND no no-show [ x.com/davidmeetupt... ]),

(2/2) mind about going to the #GouldingPark #tennis🎾 event (https://t.co/v45VsocfIG) I had hoped to host via the relevant @meetup group. I mention in the previous tweet an event in June 2018 that I had to cut short due to heavy #rain. https://t.co/Gbf5EHYy0J

David on X: "(3/) on a #SaturdayMorning (https://t.co/STmr9Nbk01). Heavy rain on the latter day meant my staying to play #tennis🎾 for under an hour after I had arrived although for that day I chose not to mark anyone a #noshow. It had not, when I had arrived @ the courts in question, been" / X

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 6

(6/) supposed to have taken place in June (x.com/davidmeetupt...) and August (x.com/davwain1/sta...) 2023

I say more, via a BlueSky thread the 1st and last posts of which I posted in a tweet (x.com/davidmeetupt...), on my hope to have gotten to play tennis at Cedarvale Park but that I likely would

(3/) on a #SaturdayMorning (https://t.co/STmr9Nbk01). Heavy rain on the latter day meant my staying to play #tennis🎾 for under an hour after I had arrived although for that day I chose not to mark anyone a #noshow. It had not, when I had arrived @ the courts in question, been

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 6

(5/) regularly scheduled to take place on certain mornings.

Please note that as usual all events are weather-permitting. Heavy enough rain has so far meant, from the 2010s onward, my having had to:
- cut short a June 2018 Goulding Park event (x.com/davidmeetupt...)
- cancel tennis events that were

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 6

(4/) ones I've planned for this year, with the next such event I've scheduled to occur next June (www.meetup.com/greater-toro...). Thus, if you're looking to play tennis in Toronto's downtown and do so on any a.m., this coming weekend will be your last chance to do so among those events I've

Tennis at Moss Park, Sat, Sep 13, 2025, 9:45 AM | Meetup

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 6

(3/) (www.meetup.com/greater-toro...) and Queen St. to the south (x.com/davidmeetupt...). Anyone looking to sign up for that event has until noon [EDT (GMT-04:00)] Thursday (11 September) to do so or contact me so I can manually sign him/her up.

The above event will be the last of those Moss Park

near Jarvis and Shuter in Toronto's downtown

www.meetup.com

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 6

(2/) @bsky.app thread what I would've posted on the page of that #Meetup group:

≪ Tennis at Moss Park - 13 September 2025, 9.45 a.m.

Hello racquet sport players. Please note the date and time of the above event, with the closest pedestrian entrance off Shuter St. to the north

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 6

(1/) I am thankful this month's #CedarvalePark #tennis event, via a relevant sports #Meetup group, went ahead. The inability to make edits to posts I hope to post under the "Discussions" portion of that group's website, if the # of characters is already 2000, has prompted me to post in this

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 3

(54/54) I likely will cancel this month's Moss and Goulding events if, to the Cedarvale event:
- no more than 1 member of the sports group joins me
AND
- there's at least 1 no-show

On a much happier note I look forward to seeing those who sign up for the Cedarvale event at that event.

David ≫

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 3

(54/54) I likely will cancel this month's Moss and Goulding events if, to the Cedarvale event:
- no more than 1 member of the sports group joins me
AND
- there's at least 1 no-show

On a much happier note I look forward to seeing those who sign up for the Cedarvale event at that event.

David ≫

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 3

(53/) no-shows (e.g. weather or if I feel unwell that a.m. EDT)

In a nutshell, I want to recap that I cancelled those 5 events that were to have come immediately after what was to have been the June 2021 Riverdale Park tennis event due to too many no-shows to the Riverdale event and previous 2.

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 3

(52/) month's Moss Park event up on the website of the same Meetup group if the Cedarvale event:
-- is a go and features:
--- at least 2 members of that group who join me
OR
--- 1 member of that group joins me AND there's no no-show
-- isn't a go, but the reason doesn't have to do with too many

David on X: "(4/) mandatory minimum suspension period means for anyone currently a member of that #sports group (https://t.co/PnunXuwkIO): https://t.co/53hWmRltRR" / X

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 3

(51/) I'd planned. Back in late-May of the same year I had posted a series of audio and video clips (x.com/davidmeetupt...), hoping to encourage members of that group to continue honouring sign-ups as they had often enough done from June 2017 to September 2020.

What does the above mean for this

(4/) mandatory minimum suspension period means for anyone currently a member of that #sports group (https://t.co/PnunXuwkIO): https://t.co/53hWmRltRR

David on X: "@meetup_support (2/2) period applicable to such events to take place from the current week onward: https://t.co/AuIeUMQXtH" / X

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 3

(50/) the three June 2021 events I'd hoped to host, but that could at best barely go ahead, I posted, on 9 (x.com/davidmeetupt...) and 10 (x.com/davidmeetupt...) July 2021 EDT, separate series of audio clips in hopes of encouraging more members of the Meetup group to honour sign-ups to tennis events

@meetup_support (2/2) period applicable to such events to take place from the current week onward: https://t.co/AuIeUMQXtH

David on X: "@meetup_support (2/2) period applicable to such events to take place from the current week onward: https://t.co/AuIeUMQXtH" / X

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 3

(49/) clearer to you.

David" »

On the 2nd day after I'd sent the above message, using the "Contact attendees" function under "Organizer tools," I put out a video (x.com/davidmeetupt...) on my having already cancelled all remaining June and July 2021 tennis events and, to try to avoid a repeat of

@meetup_support (2/2) period applicable to such events to take place from the current week onward: https://t.co/AuIeUMQXtH

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 3

(48/) with respect to, until further notice, events for which I am the host.

Everyone of you will have a LOOOOONG time to think about your no-shows! None of you needed to throw...[common sense] under the bus and should not have but because you did, the consequences have become hopefully a lot

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 3

(47/) else. Your very futures in this group will depend on your ability to do so although your no-shows are likely to, in addition to my cancellation, prior to August 2021, of any remaining event that I was to host in this group, also result in an increase to the mandatory minimum suspension period

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 3

(46/) attending an event of mine, will mean the new suspension will become CONSECUTIVE to the one that I gave out, leaving you with a new inability to attend very many events which I am the host prior to 2030.

Please make sure to honour future sign-ups to events whether hosted by me or someone

davwain1.bsky.social @davwain1.bsky.social · Sep 3

(45/) group, any no-show for such an event will count towards...[the] number of no-shows that you are allowed to...accumulate before I kick you out of this group.

I would like to advise you that a no-show...[to an] event hosted by someone else, should...[it] take place during your suspension from