Posted on 07/26/2013 9:36:58 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
In order to ensure Americans understand how to access the benefits available to them when many provisions of the Affordable Care Act go online October 1, the Obama administration announced last month that it is setting up a call center that will be accessible to Americans 24 hours a day.
One branch of that call center will be located in California’s Contra Costa County, where, reportedly, 7,000 people applied for the 204 jobs. According to the Contra Costa Times, however, “about half the jobs are part-time, with no health benefits — a stinging disappointment to workers and local politicians who believed the positions would be full-time.” The county supervisor, Karen Mitchoff, called the hiring process “a comedy of errors” and said she “never dreamed [the jobs] would be part-time.”
The Times indicates that a job posting advertised all of the jobs as full-time, and one call center employee, who said no reason for the apparent change was provided, told the paper, ”It reminded me of that George Clooney movie where he goes around the country firing people (‘Up in the Air’). The woman said, ‘I know you were led to believe you would be full-time, but things have changed…You are actually ‘part-time intermittent.’”
The Contra Costa employees are currently in training, and the call center — one of three based in California — is set to go live on October 1.
and the IRS goons want to be exempt
0bamajobs in the 0bamaeconomy. He is focused like a laser on the middle-class.
Like the Death Star was focused on Alderaan.
That..is..just...rich.
It will truly be fascinating to listen to some of the calls that come in.
“7,000 people applied for the 204 jobs.”
That seems about right. We should give all the aliens green cards so that 20,000 people can apply for 200 jobs.
Too late for the only possible cure, the Obamectomy.
I have the solution to this entire mess....allowing the law to remain in effect but exempting everyone, by turning every single job in America....into a part-time status.
Yes, there would be hostility in the first couple of years, but the nation would trudge on....in part-time status, and be stronger in the end. We’d all learn how to make it....with less money....more time on our hands....and still have this magnificent healthcare law sitting there but no one to fit into it because we are all part-timers.
The best part of this? Well....we’d need each Senator and Representative to be part-time as well....so we’d elect Joe 1 and Joe 2 to the position. At noon each day, Joe 1 would turn over his Senate position to Joe 2. And we’d have two Presidents, who would be on-duty for a limited time each day.
we’ll need the extra time for breadlines
How many times do we have to tell people there is no healthcare in Obamacare.
“7,000 people applied for the 204 jobs.”
That seems about right. We should give all the aliens green cards so that 20,000 people can apply for 200 jobs.
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If those were those $24-48/hour “navigator” jobs instead of mere <$15/hour call center jobs, we’d maybe see 50,000 people applying, right now. I believe the nav jobs are going to be face-to-face, at libraries, etc; No doubt, municipalities will have to provide, gratis, a place for the navs to sit & meet w/people, square footage, and furniture.
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-PJ
Oh, yeah. Our economy has definitely rebounded < /sarc > Better to put these 204 out of a job and find a president who knows how to spur the private sector with real work.
Doesn’t matter how many times, they won’t believe you.
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