Posted on 11/27/2013 10:58:34 AM PST by MeganC
ELKHART - Many stores and restaurants will be open this year on Thanksgiving Day, and one local man says he lost his job because of it. Tony Rohr worked at Pizza Hut for more than ten years, but says he was fired recently because he refused to open on Thanksgiving. He says he doesn't think people should have to work on a holiday like Thanksgiving. He started at Pizza Hut as a cook and worked his way up to being a general manager of the Jackson Boulevard Pizza Hut in Elkhart.
He was told opening on Thanksgiving this year was mandatory, so at a meeting with his superiors he decided to take a stand.
"I said, 'Why can't we be the company that stands up and says we care about our employees and they can have the day off?'"
Tony says it wasn't about him. It was about his employees. He told his bosses that he would not open the restaurant he managed on Thanksgiving.
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“If you work in the business, you know going in that it comes with the territory.”
Bingo. You want holidays off? Work in a different industry.
People really want their turkey and dressing pizza with a pumpkin pie shake, (cranberry sauce optional).
“And, like I said, you know for damn sure that the executives of that company will all be home enjoying their holiday while the peons have to work.”
Oh, the horror! I bet the executives also fly in private jets while the peons have to fly coach. I even heard that the executives get their own bathrooms and don’t have to use the cruddy ones in the restaurants like the peons do.
I have no sympathy for him.
My dad ran his own business and had to be on call 365 days per year. He often had to go out on major holidays. It was the nature of the job.
Pizza Hut may be a crappy restaurant but it’s still a restaurant. A lot of food service businesses are open on thanksgiving. This isn’t the same as opening stores on the holiday.
If doesn’t want to work in thanksgiving he shouldn’t work in the good service industry
So instead he will sit in his nice, warm house, supported by people working that day for the gas and electric utilities. He will no doubt turn on the TV, since there are people working at the station to bring him programming. He might watch a football game, played in a stadium filled with people working on Thanksgiving. If, God forbid, he chokes on a turkey bone then his family can call the 911 operator, working on the holiday, who will dispatch the paramedics, working on the holiday, to take him to the emergency room where the doctors and nurses, working on the holiday, will take care of him.
But if he wants a pizza then he's out of luck.
There are a lot of people who work on Thanksgiving (or any of the Holidays for that matter).
It goes with having a job.
On those times when I had to work on Thanksgiving (I was in the medical field at the time) we just delayed dinner until I got home
There are things you need to stand up for and fight, and there are some fights that are not worth winning.
This is one of them. Sorry he lost his job, but then I guess he will have more time with his family.
I was in the Air Force for 20 years, and worked 25 years after that, till I retired 2 months ago. For those 45 years, I was a shift worker, nights, holidays, weekends. I did not necessarily like it, but I knew it going in, and sucked it up, and just did my job. It came with the territory.
Nothing like carving the Thanksgiving pizza.
Yup, “no buy zone”. Their pizza is garbage anyway.
Most people are pretty much apolitical. Stuff like this that cheeses them off is what pushes them into the enemy camp.
Contract? wtf are you talking about?
I concur. Don’t like the line of work, choose another.
Ah, yes. Thanksgiving is all about football.
Silly me, I thought it was about giving thanks to God for all of the blessing He has bestowed upon us.
I also appreciate being educated on the tradition of ordering chicken wings from a pizza place on Thanksgiving evening.
Is that real?
2. Guy disobeys his bosses request even knowing he could get fired.
3. Guy gets fired.
Where is the part I'm supposed to feel bad for him?
I appreciate your service and sacrifice for our country.
Now, do you think that working at a Pizza Hut equates to what you did? I don’t.
(My first Christmas in the USAF found me on CQ duty all night. Good experience at toughing up a bit as a teen.)
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I’m afraid working on holidays goes with the job. And having worked there that long, he knew that. As manager, he could let those workers off who really needed it for family reasons. The only result of this will be he’s out of a job, and a less considerate and probably less knowledgeable manager will take his place.
My idea of a good Thanksgiving is not to take my kids to Pizza Hut to celebrate, but there are people who do, or they wouldn’t stay open.
You feel the same about the military taking off Thranksgiving? How about the hospital, police station, fire station? Would you want them to send home prisoners so the guards could enjoy turkey at lunch? When the cable goes out 30 seconds after the football game starts wouldn't you be on the phone complaining there aren't workers repairing the signal immediately? Would you deny a poor working stiff from getting a paycheck because you think they should be home? It's not like employees are already being hurt by hours and insurance being cut but you want them to close Pizza Hut or whatever business so they lose a day of pay. Who knew there was an official hour that the turkey must be carved. Noon, mid afternoon or a late dinner doesn't matter.
I don't think that's necessarily a good assumption. I work in IT, and am on a rotating on-call schedule for resolving reported problems with the network. In my experience it's not at all uncommon to have a problem reported on holidays and weekends by an executive who's working, either remotely from home or on-site.
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