re: #497 Vicious Babushka

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There is plenty of outrage, Dim Jim, just not at Obama, but at Walmart & McD.

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I met a woman yesterday who was bitching about Obamacare because it was hurting her at work. I asked what she did. She works for a large pizza chain. She said she’d pulled four 12-hour shifts in a row but that she wasn’t getting overtime and they were trying to deny that she’d worked that many hours and that it wasn’t fair.

I pointed out that to get around a lot of the rules set up by the ACA, companies like hers were deliberately hiring people as part-time employees, scheduling them for less than full-time hours and getting rid of overtime so that they weren’t required to provide insurance. And that they’d fight to the death on any overtime hours she’d worked because the last thing her company or any other large fast food chain wants is to have to show that their part-timers are working full-time hours or longer. At that point, they’d run face first into the law.

She left our conversation vowing to look for a permanent full-time job somewhere else.