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Obamacare = Part Time
AMERICA’S OBAMANOMIC TRANSFORMATION TO PART-TIME WORK CONTINUES
Eyebrows are vanishing into hairlines from coast to coast over a story in the Orlando Sentinel, in which a restaurant chain experiments with moving to a part-time workforce… a move explicitly intended to help the company escape from the horrors of ObamaCare:
In an experiment apparently aimed at keeping down the cost of health-care reform, Orlando-based Darden Restaurants has stopped offering full-time schedules to many hourly workers in at least a few Olive Gardens, Red Lobsters and LongHorn Steakhouses.
Darden said the test is taking place in “a select number” of restaurants in four markets, including Central Florida, but would not give details. The company said there has been no decision made about expanding it.
In an emailed statement, Darden said staffing changes are “just one of the many things we are evaluating to help us address the cost implications health care reform will have on our business. There are still many unanswered questions regarding the health care regulations and we simply do not have enough information to make any decisions at this time.”
Darden might be able to solve this problem by relocating into Nancy Pelosi’s congressional district, where ObamaCare waivers are easy to come by, but maybe they like being based in Florida. It’s not just this one company transitioning to part time, either:
Keyser Söze
October 9th, 2012
Vote Obama and kiss your job good-bye.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/10/09/ceo-threatens-fire-employees-if-obama-reelected-and-raises-taxes#ixzz28qF4kybK
old_oaks
October 9th, 2012
Unintended consequence or sheer stupidity?
Now here’s an unintended consequence that also results from that original unintended consequence!
Say I can only get 2 part time jobs with shifts at opposite ends of the day and opposite ends of my geographic location.
I burn 2X more fuel driving back and forth to work 2X a day!
annie p
October 9th, 2012
Wait a minute here. Isn’t this the same company that Michelle was working with to reduce calories in their meals? WTF?????
reddecaesari
October 9th, 2012
barry’s four year plan comes to fruition
1. part time employees
2. living with mom/dad
3. paying 4.50 per gallon for gas
4. juggling student loan/iphone bills.
it’s your future junior. fire barry.
Hotlanta Mike
October 9th, 2012
Because Obama cares…
scribble
October 9th, 2012
Just what obama was hoping for – people forced on the government health exchanges.
Unruly Refugee
October 9th, 2012
I won’t even give the bastard enough credit to call him the part-time president. He never was and never will be a president of America. He should shoot for Kenya or Indonesia.
Toothpick McCharlie
October 9th, 2012
“The company said there has been no decision made about expanding it.”
In other words they have decided to implement this plan in all of their restaurants as soon as the news cycle allows.
The vermin and their offspring responsible for putting the company in that position need to be exterminated.
Edith McCrotch
October 9th, 2012
oops..yeah that was me.
Carlsonal
October 9th, 2012
Ha. I bet the central planner in chief didn’t see that one coming.
Boobie the Rocket Dog
October 9th, 2012
Yup. Following Wal-Mart’s lead.
sleeping giant
October 9th, 2012
Hey! not all jobs are Wal-mart type.
I work part time….meaning….I work when I want. I make $3700/week when I work…. $0/when I don’t.
I worked 32 weeks last year…..do the math.
Key word: nuclear
Life is good…
Gener al-Ripper
October 9th, 2012
Wait…wait. Wait a minute….Darden Restaurants, one of the most far-left Liberal run restaurant chains in America is trying to weasel out of paying for Obamacare by making all its employees become part-timers?
What the fuck, they’re just following Standard Liberal Operating Procedure:
IT’S RULES FOR THEE BUT NOT FOR ME
Despicable hypocritical bastards.
I used to work in the commercial seafood industry and I can assure you that Red Lobster has a very poor reputation for the “quality” of the gloppy gelatinous shit they pass off as seafood.
I regularly pass by Olive Garden and Red Lobster so I can gits me more of that forbidden tasty Chik-Fil-A.
Gener al-Ripper
CEO of al-Mart
Hillary Clinton is our best customer!