DUmmy gets arse bitten by Obamacare.

[Aristotelian]

xmas74 (24,834 posts)

Anyone else working for a company that is changing employment status?

Last edited Sun Sep 29, 2013, 03:43 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

I just received a letter last week from our corporate office stating that, due to ACA, they will be reevaluating employment status for their employees and that many will be downgraded, especially those who work in schools. In other words, they are taking many of us who were full time and downgrading us to part time, in order to save on benefits.

The insurance isn't a problem since I'll probably qualify for any assistance with the open marketplace. What pisses me off is that I used to have vacation time and sick time, along with life insurance, stock options and a 401K as a full time employee but that will all be gone.

This is bullshit and they know it.

Now, let me think, what's the best response to this one...

Oh yes - 

DUmp Link

Decoy of Fenris (865 posts)
6. Same thing here. 8000+ employees.

About 70-80% of our workforce has been knocked down to part-time, and all part-timers just had our insurance obliterated completely. The letter from the company insists that we just go on the government coverage, and gave us tips on where to go to find a good 401k program.

Never mind that maybe 3/4ths of our workforce is over 50, or that the vast majority of them rely on the insurance to live. Unfortunately, most of us saw this coming when the ACA was still being debated.

prairierose (1,781 posts)
17. This happened to me and several hundred...

colleagues at the beginning of the summer our hours and in my case, 25% of my income, were cut. Then last week, they officially notified us that we would not be eligible for health care benefits.

[chitownchica]

 

[Fourwinds]

And in the end, they'll blame the employer. Nevermind that the employer probably can't afford full time pay AND Obamacare.

[Delmar]

mwrguy (1,128 posts)
27. Now you'll have time to follow your passion.

Just ask Nancy Pelosi.

Response to xmas74 (Original post)Sun Sep 29, 2013, 11:50 AM
 handmade34 (10,374 posts)
2. companies

using the ACA as an excuse to cut labor costs

The DUmmy fix for this problem is to have government take over all corporations, not just health care.  Enjoy your funemployment, DUmmies.

 

[Gern]

Classic.

 

[Ralph Wiggum]

 

 

[Skul]

This is bullshit and they know it.

This Obamacare, and we knew it.
You're a DUmmie. Welcome to socialist medical care.
 

[67 Rover]

I just witnessed this first hand on Friday at work while we were having our equipment calibrated.  A company called XXXX Calibration services (external organization that performs calibration on some of our equipment) included a letter in the paychecks they received on Friday, the letter was informing them as of Jan 1 they will not be providing any health insurance benefits.

I was standing right there when two of the XXXXX employees opened the letter and after reading them one actually had to excuse himself to go outside, his eyes were clearly welling up.  Listen up NSA.  I HATE OBAMA and his Deathcare.

[Aristotelian]

I just witnessed this first hand on Friday at work while we were having our equipment calibrated.  A company called XXXX Calibration services (external organization that performs calibration on some of our equipment) included a letter in the paychecks they received on Friday, the letter was informing them as of Jan 1 they will not be providing any health insurance benefits.

I was standing right there when two of the XXXXX employees opened the letter and after reading them one actually had to excuse himself to go outside, his eyes were clearly welling up.  Listen up NSA.  I HATE OBAMA and his Deathcare.

That's the bad part - more than happy to laugh at DUmmies who are being faced with the outcome of their stupidity, but there's plenty of good man and women who didn't vote for this but will still be screwed over by it.

[freedumb2003b]

That's the bad part - more than happy to laugh at DUmmies who are being faced with the outcome of their stupidity, but there's plenty of good man and women who didn't vote for this but will still be screwed over by it.

> 60% of the USA in fact (I posit unscientifically > 75%)

[zeitgeist]

That's the bad part - more than happy to laugh at DUmmies who are being faced with the outcome of their stupidity, but there's plenty of good man and women who didn't vote for this but will still be screwed over by it.

Exactly. Considering the margins and methods by which this albatross was passed, the suffering of the many has been caused for the self aggrandizement of the few.  Pelosi, Reid, and, Obama are names which will justly deserve to live in infamy.

[JohnnyReb]

But you can keep your doctor if you want to.....it's just that you'll have to pay him in cash.....or buy your own insurance coverage....on fewer work hours.

You bought Obama's BS.....now go buy some healthcare insurance, DUmmies.

Oh, and by the way, Obama ask that you help him sell this Obamacare BS to your friends, neighbors and family.

[zeitgeist]

But you can keep your doctor if you want to.....it's just that you'll have to pay him in cash.....or buy your own insurance coverage....on fewer work hours.

You bought Obama's BS.....now go buy some healthcare insurance, DUmmies.

Oh, and by the way, Obama ask that you help him sell this Obamacare BS to your friends, neighbors and family.

Overwhelm and collapse the system. This is just a salvo.  Single payer is the end this is just the mean.  They do not care for those who will be injured along the way, the commie bastards never are.   

[98ZJUSMC]

xmas74 (24,834 posts)

Anyone else working for a company that is changing employment status?

Last edited Sun Sep 29, 2013, 03:43 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

I just received a letter last week from our corporate office stating that, due to ACA, they will be reevaluating employment status for their employees and that many will be downgraded, especially those who work in schools. In other words, they are taking many of us who were full time and downgrading us to part time, in order to save on benefits.

The insurance isn't a problem since I'll probably qualify for any assistance with the open marketplace. What pisses me off is that I used to have vacation time and sick time, along with life insurance, stock options and a 401K as a full time employee but that will all be gone.

This is bullshit and they know it.

Or, you could be unemployed.

Suck it, (D)Umbass.

[98ZJUSMC]

I just witnessed this first hand on Friday at work while we were having our equipment calibrated.  A company called XXXX Calibration services (external organization that performs calibration on some of our equipment) included a letter in the paychecks they received on Friday, the letter was informing them as of Jan 1 they will not be providing any health insurance benefits.

I was standing right there when two of the XXXXX employees opened the letter and after reading them one actually had to excuse himself to go outside, his eyes were clearly welling up.  Listen up NSA.  I HATE OBAMA and his Deathcare.

......and these are probably the idiot types that gave blank stares if you asked them what they were voting for.  Stupid bastards.....



....and live with the consequences.

[Dori]

If they think losing hours and company insurance is bad, wait until they try to get an appointment at one of Dr. Obama's clinics.

[JohnnyReb]

If they think losing hours and company insurance is bad, wait until they try to get an appointment at one of Dr. Obama's clinics.

"Take 2 ass burns and call us next year."

[Freeper]

Hey DUmmies,

[67 Rover]

......and these are probably the idiot types that gave blank stares if you asked them what they were voting for.  Stupid bastards.....



....and live with the consequences.

Nope, I know these guys.  They are on our team.

[I_B_Perky]

I love the smell of dummie desperation in the morning.  Won't matter though... at the end of the day they are dummies and they will vote for their masters once again in the next election.

In our local liberal daily rag, there are numerous articles about how obumbles care is soooooo greeeeaaaat!!! That tells me right there that this is an abortion in the making.

The bad thing is most dem voters do not pay anything for their healthcare so they don't care. The ones the GOP need to reach is the 20 somethings that are, or want to be, employed. If the GOP would do that, they could get those voters. Unfortunately I don't think it will matter in the end. Way too many welfare folks now.   

I really hope I am dead when America implodes.

[Ogre]

If they think losing hours and company insurance is bad, wait until they try to get an appointment at one of Dr. Obama's clinics.

So right, yet the primitive brotherhood will find some way to blame it on the Republicans.

I'm amazed that our supposed "intellectual superiors" (their words, not mine) cannot grasp the "law of consequences", intended or otherwise.

Their shock and surprise is almost comical, but is tempered by the fact that non-obamatards are equally effected by this bad bit of legislation.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

With all these people losing insurance and wages how do you think this will sway the Or battle during the shutdown?

[RobJohnson]

I'm surprised how many people still believe Obamacare is a good thing and buy into what little good the media says about it.

I had a coworker today tell me he is worried that Obamacare might be delayed. We have great insurance and he is covered through the VA. The tight wad is trying to get out of paying for coverage on himself just so he can insurance on his wife through our employer. What he pays is still about half of what it would cost her for less coverage through her employer. I tried telling him that the state exchanges are full of 70/30 plans and high deductibles but he told me he heard on the news that the deductibles have to be affordable!

He told me he was thinking about buying today's Las Vegas Review Journal due to the fact it had an article about Obamacare in it!  

[Karin]

What's infuriating is when obama or jay carney stand up there and say "there is no evidence linking the increase in part-time work to obamacare."   This is the kind of shit that makes people snap. 

[BlueStateSaint]

What's infuriating is when obama or jay carney stand up there and say "there is no evidence linking the increase in part-time work to obamacare."   This is the kind of shit that makes people snap. 

They want this to happen.  The easier to "get things under 'control.'"