Quote Originally Posted by KindMidasSoundman
Last Friday was payday at House of Blues, where I work for the Production department, and when I got called to my boss' office I wondered what was up. I hadn't been late, I have NEVER called in sick, and I hadn't broken any rules recently so I was a bit confused.

I walked into the boss' office and he handed me my paycheck, in an envelope as usual. There was another envelope attached to the paycheck envelope and before my boss relaxed his grip on the stack of 2 envelopes, he told me that certain employees were going to get this extra envelope on their checks this week. He then told me that he wanted to personally tell me the contents of the envelope before I read the memo inside.

He then went on to tell me that an audit was done on hours worked by all employees of the venue. This audit evaluated hours worked between the months of April and September, 2006. The hours were tallied, then an average was taken to determine average hours per week during this time period. The letter inside the other envelope was a memo from the Human Resources department stating that, after auditing my hours for that time period it was found that my average hours worked per week was under 32, and for this I will be penalized. The penalties they are imposing on me are as follows, and these penalties go into effect 1/1/06:

Loss of right to accumulate, and redeem vacation hours

Loss of health insurance

Loss of dental insurance

Loss of vision insurance

And it didn't even mention what would happen with the money I have contributed to my 401k account.

So... I now have the rest of December to decide whether or not I will stay around as a part-time employee, or take a stand and resign my post. Either way, one thing remains true; I will not have health insurance in 2007 unless I purchase it myself.

By the way: I have worked for the House of Blues Corporation since 1998

Thanks a lot, HOB!!

What is their company motto????

Oh, yeah!!

"Help Ever Hurt Never" PLEASE!!

Wow yeah thats really fucked up. Our Health Insurance policy in America is extremely fucked up. Federally Funded insurance charges the least amount of money and they try to shift the costs onto private insurance, like yours. So the premium is getting higher and higher for insurance so businesses are making it harder and harder for you to get it. Really messed up. The number one reason people in our country go bankrupt is because of hospital bills.

People try to blame being poor on being LAZY. Whatever, that is fucking stupid. If you are poor and need to go to the hospital, and you don't have health insurance, you are going to get a HUGE FUCKING BILL. It's like, WE ARE MAKING PEOPLE POOR!!!!

I don't know where I was going with this. I get really angry sometimes over things like this though..

I am sorry, I will be boycotting those mother fuckers!!!