Posted on 08/16/2013 3:47:20 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
The DUmmies continue to reel from the real effects of Obamacare, as it begins to unfold. The latest news is that the national clothing-store chain Forever 21 is moving many of their employees from full-time to part-time status, so the company doesn't have to suffer the punitive costs of Obamacare. Hey, DUmmies, OWN IT! This is what you voted for. Own it.
But no, instead of owning it, the DUmmies are frowning it. They're mad at Forever 21 for trying to keep their business in business. Why, in fact, this calls for a BOYCOTT!! The DUmmies are going to leap into action and bring Forever 21 TO THEIR KNEES! That'll show 'em! DUAC! DUAC!
We witness the DUmmie call to action here in this THREAD, "Forever 21 letter to all full time/non-management employees."
So let us now see the DUmmies fume, stir, and organize for action, in Bolshevik Red, while the commentary of your humble guest correspondent, Charles Henrickson, marveling at the wondrous miracle that is the Obama Economy--what is this now, Recovery Summer 5.0?--is in the [Barackets]:
Forever 21 letter to all full time/non-management employees
[Here follows the text of said letter, which we now excerpt . . .]
Company-wide, Forever 21 recently audited its staffing levels, staffing needs and payroll in conjunction with reviewing its overall operating budget.
[I didn't know you could get overalls at Forever 21. But back to the letter . . .]
As a result, we are reducing a number of full-time non-management positions. This includes full-time Stock Associates, Sales Associates, Store Maintenance Associates, Accessory Specialists and Cashiers.
[Translation: stockers, salesgirls, janitors, scrunchie-crunchers, and checkout girls.]
Based on our audit, your position will be reclassified as Part-Time. . . . As a Part-Time employee your regular schedule will not exceed 29.5 hours per week.
[Forever 29.5. Just under the magic 30-hour mark, at which point--under Obamacare--employers are forced to give you health care. There you have it, ladies! This is what you got when you voted for your dreamboat Obama: Part-time work, just as long as no one can threaten your precious Sacrament of Abortion.]
[The DUmmies react . . .]
Time for call and boycott this retailer.
[PHONE CALLS! PICKET LINES! DUAC! DUAC!]
No, it's time for a change in laws.
[But, but, this is YOUR law! This is the Democrats' law! The Afforable Care Act! AFFTAX!]
Everyone gets benefits, part-time and full-time.
[And nobody has to pay for them! Except for those evil rich corporations, of course. Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?]
In the meantime, until there are no Republicans in Congress that is, a boycott is about all we can do.
[But wait, it wasn't the REPUBLICANS in Congress that gave us Obamacare! It was you DEMOCRATS!]
+1000000000
[Additional cost in dollars that Forever 21 would otherwise incur.]
better yet, lets not have healthcare tied to employment at all
[Or, as is happening with Obamacare, let's not have employees tied to employment at all.]
We gave them a 1 year waiver remember?
[I would rather give them a Forever-Plus-21-year waiver.]
So under ACA, the incentive exists to cut as many workers as you can to below the statutory level for ACA employer mandate - 30 hours.
[You're just now figuring this out, Einstein?]
What we have done with this law is clearly inflicting a great deal of damage upon the most vulnerable.
[But, but, we had to pass it in order to find out what's in it!]
We had our shot and we got the ACA. But it's awesome because (D) passed it!
[I detect a note of sarcasm.]
it is better than nothing.
[I vote for nothing.]
it has its staunch defenders.
[It has its stench defenders.]
We all know ACA is a stepping stone to single payer.
[Ah, there it is! The goal: Full-blown socialized medicine. Create a crisis, cause people to lose their health insurance, drive up the premiums for the rest of us, and, voilà! Great Britain, here we come!]
Which is exactly how Canada got single-payer.
[Or Canada.]
I would boycott, but I don't shop there to begin with.
Forever 21 is an American chain of clothing retailers with branches in major cities in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East that offers clothing and accessories for young women, men, and teen girls.
["Like, their stuff is so awesome!"]
Gee, if only someone could have foreseen this kind of thing. . . .
[NOBODY could have foreseen that Obamacare would do this!]
I know. This is mystifying that NOBODY saw this coming. Utterly out of left field.
[Utterly out of left wing.]
I read this and immediately texted my daughter that she cannot shop there any longer.
["omg! i'm like totally so not doing that!"]
I'm not sure how many more places I can boycott. I'm already boycotting Disney, Darden restaurants, regal cinemas, anything with angie harmon, fox, walmart to a certain extent and now forever 21.
[BOYCOTT EVERYTHING! EVERYONE, MAKE YOUR OWN CLOTHES!]
Yet they claim to be a Christian company. Printing John 3:16 on all bags.
[OH NOES111 That's the WORST! They print a BIBLE reference--EWWW!!!--on the bottom of their bags! Bring them up on a hate crime! Have you EVER seen such a terrible thing???]
You will not have anywhere to shop, get gas, or live, but you can boycott.
[A small price to pay!]
They have a location directly across from the cable car turnaround in San Francisco ideally suited for direct action.
[A DUAC call to arms! San Francisco, here we come! It's a Million DUmmie March!]
I really liked the idea one poster on their Facebook page had. She wasn't going to boycott...she was going to stand outside their store nearest her on public property and hand out copies of their letter during their back-to-school sale.
[That will BRING THEM TO THEIR KNEES, the corporate b*st*rds.]
Well, why not write a letter to the architect of this edifice of HC...one President Obama, and thank him?
[Oh, thank you, our dear Lord Obamassiah! Thank you so much for destroying businesses, costing us jobs, and reducing us to part-time work, all so we can have affordable health insurance! We know you have our back. And we know you're just playing three-dimensional chess that we lowerlings can't possibly hope to understand, so that one day, one day, we can achieve the greater goal of UNIVERSAL FREE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL!!! WHEEEEE!!!!]
Going Shopping with my teenage granddaughter next Tuesday. We are going for our annual back to school shopping trip at Northpark Mall in Dallas. Avery likes to go to the big F21 store, but my dollars will not be spent there anymore.
["Sears?? You're expecting me to like get my clothes at SEARS?? Like, no way!"]
Nation wide boycott of Forever 21. Drive them out of business.
[NOT ONE D*MN SCRUNCHIE DAY!]
My boycott list is getting mighty long.
[My boycott list is becoming a bucket list.]
ACA is a clusterf***.
[Yes, but it's YOUR clusterf***. Own it.]
It is going to take a massive worker strike, at every level to wake this country up. . . .
[GENERAL STRIKE! GENERAL STRIKE! SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING! YES, IT WILL WORK THIS TIME!]
No, you have to pass to grant waivers to it.
Wouldn't we need to get rid of massive unemployment in order to have a massive worker strike?
So the DUmmies want to hurt the store even more by boycotting? That will lead to more hour reductions and layoffs. So they’ll be hurting the employees even more.
Wow...no kewpie dolls for this crew! LOL!
It will just be a part time strike.
The real question is what a DUmmie is doing working at a store that perpetuates stereotypes of what young women are supposed to be. When I say stereotypes I mean women trying to look hot!......
Right - the DUmmies would be more at home at an armpit-hair braiding salon ;-)
Great tagline Old Sarge. You have my wife and I laughing our assess off.
I saw a pro-Obamacare commercial on TV about 3 hours ago.
A soothing and rather effeminate male voice that sounded like HAL from that old movie “2001 A Space Odyssey”.
The basic message was: “If you have a pre-existing condition, then Obamacare is for you. Call this number to find out how you can be treated for free.”
Our tax dollars at work.
“What do you do with morons blown away by things that have been obvious for 3 years?”
It’s been obvious to all of US since he became the D candidate for President. We (FReepers and other conservatives on the internet) had him figured out a LONG time ago.
All of those other things he has tried to pass over the years that didn’t make it...I would just bet that there is some form of law about it (no matter what it is) hiding in the pages of the “Affordable Care Act”. (That name makes me want to throw up.)
We all know this thing has very little to do with “healthcare”.
"[I detect a note of sarcasm.]"
I don't think it was sarcasm at all. I'll just bet the one who wrote that absolutely believes that any politician with a "D" behind his name pretty much walks on water.
Let’s see, boycott them, protest and make sure you put them out of Business and the Employees you are standing up for will get their Hours cut to ZERO instead of 29.
Yep, Liberal Logic at its finest.
There's that old, tired thing again. Just like when they scream racism at everything conservatives do or say...they continuously throw out the "Christian card"...as if a *true* Christian would, of course, think just like they do.
And by the way, Dummies?....what does "being a Christian company" have to do with this issue?? You think Forever 21 should just suck it up? Just because they may be owned by Christians does not mean they have to suffer.
Blockheads. Every time I read this stuff from them - I want to be sick.
[You're just now figuring this out, Einstein?]
LOL. I know a couple of rats who were so happy when 0 bummer care passed. Both are on 29.5 hour weeks now. Wait until they see what the fines are.
-— Call this number to find out how you can be treated for free.” ——
‘S comin’ from Obama’s stash, yo!
We had our shot and we got the ACA. But it's awesome because (D) passed it!
I think these particular DUmmies were indeed being sarcastic. They don't like Obamacare, but not for the same reasons that we don't like it. They don't like it because it's not socialist enough. They only want the single-payer public option. Also, they knew--or at least these particular DUmmies knew--that employers would cut hours to get under the requirement. They just don't like it.
They don’t like it....but still don’t get it. Socialized medicine NEVER works!
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