Posted on 11/27/2014 8:00:42 AM PST by NYer
/johnny
Football! I forgot to mention that in my #20!
ANYONE who is going “Preach it, brother!” to the article writer, and who is watching football today, needs a lesson in shutting up. :-)
For example, that Detroit/Chicago game that millions of people are watching right now...thousands of people had to get up for work this morning to make that possible. From the TV crews to the security guards to the stadium workers. And this is only one of three NFL games being played across the country.
Then the restaurants, that allow millions of people to not have to cook at at this Thanksgiving Day. Those people had to come to work today as well, in order to cook the food, wait the tables, wash the dishes and whatnot.
Then you got your hospitals, gas stations, convenience stores, police stations, fire stations, and on and on. For all those people, this is just another work day.
It's Thanksgiving Day and all the womenfolk are going shopping tonight and tomorrow. I'll just stay home and hang Christmas lights.
But that’s all “different.” :-)
Oh, and all y’all who are on the Internet? Get off now! You are making folks work to keep the servers running! Turn off your TVs and computers! And radios!
I agree. I have worked many holidays in big law firms in nyc over the years. It’s not so bad - I’d get paid for the holiday, and then every hour I worked I’d get double time. I’d usually work 9-3,and be home in time for dinner and relaxing in the evening. I liked it.
In places like Las Vegas, lots of people work holidays. Nobody cares about them.
Thanksgiving has always had a major commercial aspect and been a start of the Christmas shopping season. That’s the whole point of the Macy’s Parade, it started to bring Santa and a bunch of parade fans INTO the store to start the shopping. None of this is new, and some of it is actually less common than it used to be (Thanksgiving parades used to be pretty much anywhere that had a department store willing to get a permit).
That’s part of the lease agreement with the mall, they decide hours when stores WILL be open. Anybody who doesn’t like it can negotiate exceptions, or go elsewhere.
Don’t forget turning on the TV, or radio. Somebody is working to beam that entertainment to you, even more folks if the entertainment is live. This new crusade against people working Thanksgiving (which is a spawn of the anti-Walmart crowd, since nobody cared until they found out the “great satan” was going to be open) lives in a lot of denial. People work Thanksgiving, always have, always will.
I thought that was all magic, and that they taped all those news, weather and traffic reports.
I pity people that end up working on holidays; thankfully I work a job where I don’t have to. I don’t do anything that would require others to work on those days; I stock up beforehand so I don’t have to force someone else to work.
Do people think all that stuff just appears and disappears back into the ether?
All around this nation there are people picking up and cleaning and sweeping out and all the rest. Some might get home for dinner. Some will not.
Do you use electricity or candles? Haul water from your well or turn on the tap? Use the Internet? :)
Sorry but you do things that requires other people to work around the clock 365 days of the year you slave driver you.
And thus it has ever been.
Used to work in dairy, the plant was always open and running because the cows did not give a darn about the calender. They wanted to be milked morning and evening like always.
I try to buy as little as possible.
All the time.
For kicks I should tell you I have a survivalist Thanksgiving, but you know what I meant.
Interdependence.
Every thing we do today is dependent on someone else not having the day off.
For many years that person was me but since I didn't have family near I didn't mind. Triple pay, pizza and a day off of my choice was a nice reward for not having to sit around my apartment missing everybody.
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