Posted on 10/07/2016 6:52:25 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
As retailers started opening their doors on Thanksgiving Day in recent years to offer deep discounts ahead of Black Friday, some consumers cried foul.
They want the deals, but they don't want to leave their family celebrations to get them. Some also spoke up on behalf of employees of the stores that opened, saying it's unfair to ask them to also step away from family and friends on the holiday.
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And speaking of Thanksgiving, last year they didn’t have celery. Thankfully, I’m used to their bs so had bought some in the summer and froze it so we were able to have dressing.
I’m pretty sure this has an old world vibe: When I was quite young, St. Nick put up the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve after the kids were in bed.
And it tastes SOOOO much better than that nasty canned stuff.
Places like hospitals and hotels also cannot close. And as chief engineer, I was bound to work at least a half-day at the hotel—I also got triple time pay, which I just couldn’t get enough of. Made for a VERY nice paycheck. Woo-hoo, indeed! 8)
Geez, that is so unfunny. I guess I'm not cool enough to get the joke. Even before I was a Christian, I could see nothing but good in the Christmas season and saw no reason to mock it like those losers.
Of course not at WalMart, Millenials would never be caught dead in there, that’s where icky people go to buy cheap things.
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I swear, when driving, they don't know how to use their blinkers when switching lanes. I guess they are so precious that I should know what kind of a move they decide to make.
PS I thought I didn't like cranberry, until last year at age 55 I tried it and LOVED it.
They can just pay through the nose at a convenience store due to their lack of planning and preparation, or do without.
Employees are not forced to work somewhere it is voluntary. If one does not want to work on Christmas then don't work somewhere that opens on Christmas.
I agree with you 100%. I will also point out that the last place I worked where the management had an attitude like that ended up with the employees bringing a labor union in the front door.
Sorry but that is a Red Herring argument. Sharia Law replaces our system of laws. Not even in the same ball park. Opening a store on Christmas is a choice that many do. In our small town a Toy Store was open for years on Christmas the man who ran it was Jewish. He always did a bang up job on Christmas Day in batteries and accessories for toys and he would even deliver bicycles and other big toys on Christmas Day sometimes dressed as Santa Claus, most everyone loved it.
But if you didn't agree with him opening on that day then you didn't have to shop there (And there were some super religious holy-roller types around here who would make a stink about it and they were rightly told to mind their own business.)
I am now 57 years old and have yet been forced by government law to work anywhere. I've always had a choice and so do most of the people in the USA. If you don't want to work on Christmas don't work at a place that opens on Christmas. It is really very simple.
Of course people will still be working. Those Black Friday displays don’t put up themselves. This is one of the most retarded kerfuffles ever. People in retail work on Thanksgiving, always have, always will. Doors open or closed there’s a bunch of work to be done. Heck it used to be traditional, that’s why Santa is at the end of the parade, to open the store and start the shopping season. Then it fell out of favor, then it started coming back. People who don’t want to work it should get out of retail.
I agree with you, but it is a very nice thing these 40 employers are doing. Almost “Christian” of them. There are 362 days other than Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter they can be open. It is the companies right to work those 3 days too, but I would think less of them for it.
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I go out to eat most Thanksgivings and all Christmases. I really enjoy the “traditional Jewish Christmas dinner” of Chinese food. Even though I’m not Jewish or Chinese. Days don’t mean the same thing to everybody.
You need a better store. I can get cranberry sauce year round.
People work those days whether the stores is open or not. And really, not everybody cares about those days. It’s a big country with diverse demographics, Jews, Oriental, atheists, people from dysfunctional families. I had a fun talk with the waitress at one local restaurant on Thanksgiving, she said she greatly preferred working the day, usually by that point her sisters annual argument has gotten to the point of projectiles and being away from that and earning money at the same time was perfect. I used to lie about having to work the day to avoid the same kind of family drama, then I got married and we started telling the respective families we’d be with the other ones. I’m all for places being open and I’m all for places being closed. I’m all for choices.
I think it’s funny that for decades NOBODY CARED about this issue, until WalMart announced they’d be open, then all of a sudden it became a national tragedy. People have worked on Thanksgiving (and Christmas, and Easter) your entire life. And they will continue. Because they have employees and customers that aren’t in your demographic.
It’s the only game in town and they know it so can give pizz poor service all they wish.
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