Posted on 09/18/2013 5:29:59 AM PDT by 11th_VA
I remember when I first got laid off I applied several times to work with Walgreens in their distribution center. I thought “if one company is going to keep health care, it’s going to be one with a steady supply of drugs.”
Once again, God was right and I was wrong. Thankfully, I work elsewhere.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323527004579081563998551366.html
LOL. Trader Joe's found the solution. Give them $500 and say you're on your own. Good luck finding that exchange for $500 a year.
Yes, you should get paid more as when an employer calculates the cost to hire you, benefits are factored in to that total cost.
In the last major corporation I worked for prior to starting my own consulting firm, we factored in 50% of the base salary as the cost of all benefits. So if we hired someone at a base salary of $100,000 then we knew the actual cost to the company was $150,000.
As we have been down the road of businesses behaving like mom and dad for so many years and in many cases there are contractual agreements employers have painted themselves into an economic corner.
The best we can do is try to change things going forward and as central planners have been a proven and consistent failure, and because our founders wanted us to have control I would rather get my full pay and decide for myself what I wanted to spend it on.
wuuupps! Yes poll should have been pole. I guess the image of naked pole dancers fogged up my typing.
Hard headed perhaps, but not cold hearted. The problems we face demand in this emerging crisis is rational, heard headed practical solutions that are effective as opposed to our current mode of implementing irrational , emotion driven feel good and self congratulatory solutions that are irrational, ineffective, counterproductive and ultimately self destructive.
Yes, my wife works for one, Benefitfocus..They went public today and stock doubled.
You aren't a cold-hearted anything. I totally agree with you and had an adverse reaction to the ad--changed the channel. The Left attempts to guilt people into helping our enemies around the globe, but I bet there are 1000s in Appalachia that don't have enough food, clothes, shelter or medical care.
Obama’s marxist chickens have come home to roost among his supporters, but they turned out to be red vultures.
Bon appetite!
And that would explain why Mitch McC and Boehner secretly like “Obamacare”. People in KY and OH will never figure it out.
I agree with you.
I have felt that same thing, every time I see that commercial.
Pinging the lists as a FYI..!
"If you like your plan, you can keep it." - Obama
Not a single talking head on FOX thinks defunding is wise or that it will happen. On the other hand Runt Paul has already said they will have to compromise and accept less than they want, which likely means a delay is the goal not a killer move.
Even if the 90 day delay had passed, it would have been all we would ever get from the GOPe.
No parlor debate. It is not the political economy— it is the real economy. Understand quite well the nuance, and as an employer faced with shaving hours to avoid fines under the so-called “system”, the shaving will become layoffs shortly.
Quite true that it would be simpler to game the system in as you say the “non-secular” trends. A simple thing to do, like all the left wing hedge fund hustlers— going short.
An odd thing in what is left of small business/manufacturing. Some have stuck to their values, held their market and the major challenge to survival is-— surprise— the govt. mandate and venture socialists. We will close rather than play this— and live to open another day.
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