Originally Posted by
mixedgas
Steve's new changes. Must work exactly 8-5 PM, instead of 9-5 PM or 10 to 6 or whatever I needed to do, at no increase in pay, because must take 1/2 hour for lunch and two 15 minute breaks by law. Effectively I'm now restricted for campus for additional half hour (lunch was optional) or hour each day with no increase in pay. Its more then just fill out a timecard. Travel on behalf of work now is nearly impossible, and I'm not paid for flight time, unless it occurs during work hours. Vacation carryover just got slaughtered, too...
Huh? I don't want to be insensitive here, but I was a salaried employee my entire career and had employers that mandated lunches with no prescribed breaks. Every job I've ever had has required an average of 50 hours a week or more - extending up to 80 hours a week (frequently with mandated minimum hours plus Saturdays). I ALWAYS had to fill out time sheets as many industries require everyone in an organisation to do so. Even the owners in my organisations filled out time sheets. I'd expect that almost every company wants to know how its management and staff divide their time.
Frankly, even if the Affordable Care Act directly resulted in the changes you described, I'd think it was a tiny sacrifice to make so that millions of people that couldn't get health care at any price (such as pregnant women as I described earlier) and/or make it more affordable for many others. Even if you don't agree, I'd think it is much easier to fix an existing program with some faults then to throw out the baby with the bathwater for nothing more than a promise that "we're going to replace it with something much, much better. Believe me folks!"
Even if the Affordable Care Act completely sucked, it would be a tiny part of the big picture. Positive plans from a politician that you may not trust v. no plans from a lifelong con-man. The choice is yours.
-David
"Help, help, I'm being repressed!"
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