Posted on 12/13/2012 2:51:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It is the ultimate example of how you reap what you sow: Huge numbers of American workers who voted for Obama are now seeing their own jobs slashed below 30 hours a week as employers desperately try to avoid "Obamacare bankruptcy."
Obamacare mandates for businesses only apply to those working 30 hours a week or more, and while many businesses do not want to cut workers' hours, they are being forced to in order to stay afloat. This necessary action is causing businesses to lose money and become less competitive while at the same time destroying American jobs.
Some businesses are also slashing job positions in an effort to get below the 50-employee threshold above which Obamacare mandates kick in. So across the country, we're not only seeing workers lose hours thanks to Obamacare; we're also seeing workers losing their jobs.
But the Obama administration will announce these results to be a huge "job creation success!" because workers must now find two part-time jobs that usually pay less than the one full-time job they used to have. The raw job numbers, however, will be spun by the White House into a victory pronouncement of "twice as many jobs exist now!"
Be careful what you vote for
A note to Obama supporters: When you thought you were voting for "free health care," you were actually voting to get yourself "downsized." Your vote was an act of economic suicide...
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Luircin, My heart goes out to you. I graduated from college with good grades and a double major but no jobs. Lucky to go into the Army after college for 4 years. Got out of the Army and still no jobs (in my college field). Army G.I. Bill to let me get back into college to get a 2nd degree in another field (computers)...I was so broke that not only was I back living with my parents but I could not even afford gas for the old car I had except my Dad would slip me gas money.
Then I graduated right (early 80’s) right after the video game industry crashed so there I was a new C.S. grad with no job experience trying to find work when thousands of skilled, experienced programmers were out of work and looking.
I worked whatever low end temp job I could find. Finally got lucky and took a low paying computer job, that was the only offer my job searches/applications turned up.
Hard times. Sorry you are there too guy! Take whatever and tighten the belt. No bad situation is forever, though it seems that way. The USA is in bad shape and getting worse. Seems in bad times, when we need good leaders, we get stuck with the worst people. Just as in the 1930’s Great Depression my struggled thru (lost the farm, etc), we got bad policies from bad leaders (Hoover and then Roosevelt...though history has painted him falsely as the “savior”).
p.s. I used to write articles for small circulation hobby magazines, but never got more than $150 per published article.
Considering the time put in to write and prepare an article, my pay was around $2/hour. Not much money in writing for small outfits, but the big magazine that paid well, had more than enough writers.
Right! When my wife emigrated to the USA we finally got her a job with a small after-school care company by having her volunteer for a couple weeks with no obligation. She did good and so got hired. Min wage and part time. But it was her foot in the door. Dittos for another family member...no experience or schooling/training but she found a doctor who let her help him with dealing with patients who did not speak his language. She acted as an informal translator and over the course of a few years of “helper” became valued enough to the doctor that he trained her as a helper and helped her study as a medical assistant, increasing her pay.
Perhaps a unicorn will stop by and give them a ride to la-la land, where they can find some free magic mushrooms to help them ease their pain.
Absolutely. We are locked up tight on her. We are firing her with cause since she missed deadline on a customer transaction. No unemployment for her!!! We are getting rid of all dead weight in 2013.......and those having voted for Obama added lead to their imaginary golden parachute.
Absolutely. We are locked up tight on her. We are firing her with cause since she missed deadline on a customer transaction. No unemployment for her!!! We are getting rid of all dead weight in 2013.......and those having voted for Obama added lead to their imaginary golden parachute.
Absolutely. We are locked up tight on her. We are firing her with cause since she missed deadline on a customer transaction. No unemployment for her!!! We are getting rid of all dead weight in 2013.......and those having voted for Obama added lead to their imaginary golden parachute.
This is a mixture of responses to your first and second postings:
I will have to say that it is good to see people my age(I am 26 also), or a little bit older or younger, speak out against the policies that Obama stands for. I am in a similar boat as you. It is hard for me to find a job, so I’ve been stuck working at Best Buy for over four years because that may be the best retail job that I can have at the moment. I also have a form of autism, called asperger’s syndrome, which can be a limitation on the jobs that I can possibly have.
Currently I am in college trying to get a communications degree so that I can be a radio DJ, and am on the pathway to having my own radio show at the college’s radio station. The quickest way out of my mess is to be able to find a commercial venture for my lyrics, songs, poetry whathaveyou. So far, that hasn’t worked as the big movers and shakers in the music industry do not find my work good enough to publish or to pair with anybody. But I cannot be quiet and accept my failures.
We all have periods in our lives, I would think, where we can see no sun over the horizon. We tend to see life as a scale of ascendance but sometimes the scales may tip not in our favor and we go sliding downwards into the abyss. Sometimes I feel that way, as I am 26, I also live with my father and I should have a girlfriend and be out of college by now. Life moves by so fast that it is incredible to actually anticipate the future that we live in.
We are young enough to see the world revolutionize itself. We should feel pity upon those who are old enough, no offense, to not live past the next four years but know, and dread, what those years will do. Sometimes the best thing to do is to go on a walk, pick a goofy song from the 1950s(Purple People Eater did the trick for me) and listen to the whole thing. That made me feel happy today.
Bump
My wife, as a manager (now retired) wasn't squeamish about firing anyone, regardless of race. She documented everything, and worked closely with HR and legal departments. One Chinese guy tried the race card, claiming discrimination, getting sympathy from others and hoping to beat the system. My wife persevered, and when the legal people interviewed her in person and saw her face sided with her. She has my jewish name. But she is Chinese-American. City cops took him out in handcuffs after the Chinese guy lost it and went ballistic on company security. He sued, and lost his case. Tell your daughters to hang in there. Document everything.
California, New York, DC, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Illinois will also have similar laws soon (20 hours or more is full time).
Let ‘em learn the hard way, ‘cause teaching them is more trouble then they’re worth.
> Leftards never follow things through to their logical conclusion.
^ truth. Wisdom and common sense are not their strengths.
Thank you so much. I needed that. After all the doom and gloom that I’ve been reading here, it’s started to really weigh down on me.
Looks like that darn Bush did it again, oh wait...
The only problem is that many of the Obama supporters want to work less, or not work at all.
Uncle Obama will pay the bills. Don’t worry, hate the Rich, they stole the Obama stash for themselves...
If you have a hard-wired phone line, a DSL or other high-speed internet connection, and can keep the room you work in quiet, you could try http://www.alpineaccess.com
I used to work there, and it was one of my favorite jobs. I can tell you from experience that they’re always looking for good workers.
It’s mainly a virtual call center, and they contract with a variety of companies, each with a different pay scale, but I was making $12 an hour to sit in my jammies and talk on the phone all day :) I only left because I lost the use of my vocal chords. It was a fun job.
They depend on HR and the write up reports. It just takes awhile to learn all that and get tough.
Thanks, others can learn from all this.
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