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I work at a community college. The community college system in Colorado is a unified system run (sort of) by a central office. Each college has it’s own administration and staff, but to a degree they are all under CCCS (Colorado Community College System).

With the advent of Obamacare, it was decided that the system had to crack down on the hours of the adjunct instructors. Before Obamacare instructors could earn enough to get by on by working at multiple different colleges. To be quite honest they are paid a pittance, but once an instructor has their classes prepped (and this doesn’t need to change much semester to semester) the hours become bearable for the pay (while setting up the class, the pay rate is likely under minimum wage).

Since Obamacare has become law, CCCS has decided that as they are the actual employer of the adjuncts, total hours across all colleges must be tracked and kept below 30 hours to avoid the penalties of not providing health care.

So thus the compassionate law, and all the compassionate lefties running CCCS are going to kick the lowest paid instructors to the curb.

Each college’s IT department has been tasked with helping to develop this system for tracking adjunct hours. I don’t work on it directly, but I’ve dubbed it the “screw the adjunct system” and those that do, like the name.

Of course odds are most of the adjuncts are also lefties who voted for Obama, so I suppose there is some justice there.