Fired for Obamacare?

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on November 22, 2013 at 11:03pm

So what's the verdict here?  Given that this really happened as described (which i believe), which of the following scenarios seems most likely?
1) Bike shop chain co-owner wanted to let the OP go for a reason unrelated to the Affordable Care Act, and just pulled that excuse out of his butt without much thought or political agenda

2) Bike shop chain co-owner wanted to let OP go for reason unrelated to the ACA but saw a good opportunity to foment misunderstanding detrimental to the success of the ACA

3) Bike shop chain co-owner is so incensed by the pending implementation of the ACA that he took it upon himself to fire people in order to stir up public condemnation of the ACA

4) Bike shop co-owner genuinely believed that changes set to take effect in 2015 necessitated preparatory staffing cuts in November of 2013.

5) Bike shop chain co-owner so misinformed that he thought something taking effect now necessitated staffing cuts

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Permalink Reply by Alex Z on November 24, 2013 at 10:45am

Agreed.

Jeff Schneider said:

I'll play.  My bet is #1.

h' $550 said:

So what's the verdict here?  Given that this really happened as described (which i believe), which of the following scenarios seems most likely?
1) Bike shop chain co-owner wanted to let the OP go for a reason unrelated to the Affordable Care Act, and just pulled that excuse out of his butt without much thought or political agenda

2) Bike shop chain co-owner wanted to let OP go for reason unrelated to the ACA but saw a good opportunity to foment misunderstanding detrimental to the success of the ACA

3) Bike shop chain co-owner is so incensed by the pending implementation of the ACA that he took it upon himself to fire people in order to stir up public condemnation of the ACA

4) Bike shop co-owner genuinely believed that changes set to take effect in 2015 necessitated preparatory staffing cuts in November of 2013.

5) Bike shop chain co-owner so misinformed that he thought something taking effect now necessitated staffing cuts

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on November 25, 2013 at 10:17pm

#1 is actually the most insulting.....

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Permalink Reply by Michelle on November 26, 2013 at 9:47am

True. But I once had a company fire me (not a bike company...) for "not being a fit" for the company, and claim they had something I'd done wrong on file but wouldn't tell me what, and then tell the unemployment office I didn't do anything wrong. So... I'd almost rather they pulled the obamacare excuse. It would have been less obnoxious.

h' 1.0 said:

#1 is actually the most insulting.....

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