It's your fault that I slapped you...
By TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85135)
Shingle Springs, California
September 27, 2013 3:40pm CST
Have you ever been in an relationship where you got the other person angry, and they slapped you or were in some other way abusive, and when you complained they said it was your fault because you made them mad? Wasn't it their choice to slap you or not slap you? They chose to do it instead of walking away and cooling off. You didn't go into their brain and manipulate their hand so that it rose up and struck you, right?
So now we have the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), which is going to provide Health Insurance (not Health Care, doctors and nurses provide care) to people who might not otherwise have been able to afford it. It's not perfect, and it's not going to help everybody, but it will help many people. So your employer comes along and says "I'm cutting your hours to 28 so that I don't have to provide medical benefits, and it's the fault of the Affordable Care Act". Did the Affordable Care Act go into their corporate offices, and take their CEO or their Human Resources chief, and force them to sign a paper saying this is the new policy? Or is it more likely that their financial team sat down and did an analysis and said, "we will be more profitable if we don't provide benefits any more, and anyway our people can go out onto the exchange and buy insurance"? And they made the CHOICE to cut hours so that they could make more money.
Just sayin'....
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@KERAMOS (2)
• East Liverpool, Ohio
28 Sep 13
I agree but keep in mind that the folks making the decision to cut everyone to 28 hours are also making 2000 times more than the average worker in their companies make. Most of these decisions are not for the survival of the company but the comfort of the major share holders and the CEO's. Greed is powerful and destructive.
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@johnnygreybeard (181)
• United States
29 Sep 13
I couldn't agree with you more. Many of the decision makers are higher ranking executives that make huge salaries.
On a more positive note; they are also some of the first to be replaced when the companies are not producing what stockholders,CEO's, and the like think they should.
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@for_beauty (143)
• Qingdao, China
29 Sep 13
"folks making the decision to cut everyone to 28 hours are also making 2000 times more than the average worker in their companies make"
sorry but do you mean" the folks are making much more money than average worker"?
@jewcial (135)
• Shanghai, China
29 Sep 13
To be honest , it is all up to the company ,of course it also depends on the gobal economy !So do not complain the policy ,just to deal with it .
As u know ,i am Chinese ,there are so many un fair policies in our country ,we only have to afford it ,cuz we can not to change those .
that's all just my own opinion
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
30 Sep 13
I think we can change things. Actually, just look at how many things have changed in your country over the last 100 years...
@SocialMocial (1)
• , New York
29 Sep 13
Good point. Your employer doing what they do is them watching out for their pocket books; it's about time people started looking out for theirs.
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• Ghaziabad, India
30 Sep 13
We should not lose patience and control over self in that situation...and suppress angry
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@sunilmishra7756 (4272)
• Moradabad, India
29 Sep 13
Anger is a short time madness. The rich get the rod to beat the poor soon.
Thanks
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@johnnygreybeard (181)
• United States
28 Sep 13
I really enjoy hearing that someone out there actually understands what probably will happen to many employees.
A person I know has been dealing with this very thing for some time now, and is struggling to make it. This person is a good person, and is in a bad position with employment. I have faith in the person to overcome the set-backs he has at this time.
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