Posted on 11/27/2013 10:58:34 AM PST by MeganC
The liberals will whine about Christmas being nothing special...BUT, try to get them to WORK on the Christmas day that means nothing to them. Provided they have a job of course.
You must be very young. I dated men who had nothing but condiments and beer in their refrigerators. I am so glad you know everyone’s situation. Maybe they treat themselves to a meal out of a pizza delivered in on a holiday because they bring their lunch every other day of the year.
with the experience he has, he can open his own pizza joint and keep it closed on Thanksgiving.
or get a job with Chick-Fil-A.
I see it that way... It just isn’t necessary. People can (and learn to) plan around when things are closed and it allows for time with the family which I think is extremely important. I think everybody loses, it isn’t healthy to be working 7 days a week. Parents need to spend more time with their children, not less. I wouldn’t eat out on a major Holiday, it only encourages it.
That said, Pizza Hut is within their rights to fire him, he must have known that could have been an outcome. The comparisons to military service, police, etc. are a little absurd as they provide essential services. This is pizza!! c’mon!
I have worked every shift there is and if there was over time I would work it. When I was single, I often did not have a lot of food in the apartment. I ate out a lot. When I was in food service on holidays there was always guys that would come in. I suspect many of them were divorced and it wasn't "their holiday" with the kids.
One time I delivered pizza to a bunch of nurses. It was a very snowy Christmas Eve. They were very grateful, they had to be held over due to weather. I received a twenty dollar tip and their smiles made my night.
LOL @ you for thinking a Pizza Hut manager has a “contract”
Sorry you are mistaken. ...what you described is a “agreement”....not a contract...
When you sign your employment application...you are agreeing to the terms of employment. ...
A contract is an entirely different legal document...
I also would add any company worth their salt..has a disclaimer somewhere in their hiring paperwork that the employment application is not a contract....
SCROOGE: You’ll want all day tomorrow, I suppose.
CRATCHIT: If it is quite convenient, sir.
SCROOGE: It’s not convenient and it’s not fair. If I were to stop half a crown for it, you’d
think yourself ill-used. And yet, you don’t think me ill-used when I pay a day’s wages for
no work.
CRATCHIT: Christmas only comes once a year, sir.
SCROOGE: (He stands. He starts buttoning his coat and putting on his scarf.) A poor
excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of December! But I suppose you
must have the whole day. Be here all the earlier the next morning!
I owe you a hug and a kiss for the Dickens’ quote!
Happy Thanksgiving to You and to Yours!
Stop asking silly questions. Why do you hate God?
LOL!
Exactly why Unions gained a foothold in America in the first place, employers sh**ting on their employees. It is easy to say go get another job but back then most jobs were crap, making it easy for Unions to gain support.
Mine workers for instance had to pay for any shovels, picks, drills, etc. that individual workers broke during any given pay period, eating up a large part of their pay, the only stores available were owned by the company and they charged exorbitant prices, resulting in very little money for anything else. Going to work for another mine, even if they could find a way to get there, was not an option and would not have been any better.
Let's say you worked for a warehouse unloading trucks, for instance, you had to be there at a certain time regardless if any trucks were there or not, then you had to wait for a truck to get there, which might take 8 hours, you were not paid for those eight hours but only for the time spent actually loading and unloading the trucks.
It was crap like that that made the teamsters and mine workers gain hold, and although the Unions ripped off the the members they still had a better deal than without the Union.
Unions days are done but that doesn't mean that people like being sh** on today any more than they did then.
Don't get me wrong, I worked for a Union shop for years and I think they suck for the worker today, but employers have to realize that a little common sense in dealing with their people helps keep the Unions away.
We hardly bother to give thanks. Halloween comes, we skip giving thanks and go straight to gimmee gimmee. I think it’s lazy that people can’t make their own damn pizza if that’s what they want on Thanksgiving. Lazy. I worked in a hospital and I’ve worked my share of holidays. There are some things that are essential, but pizza is not one of them. Learn to cook. There’s lots of books on it.
Elkhart, Indiana has a population of 51000 and has four Pizza Huts. It would be quite interesting if an inquisitive reporter could pry out total revenues versus expenditures for Thanksgiving Day at these stores. Not much chance of that though.
seriously?
Now as far as Pizza Hut goes I have refuse to set foot in one of these dungheaps since they fired the delivery man who protected his life from armed robbers by use of the AR 15 he carried in his privately owned delivery car.
I always volunteered to work on holidays for double-time. Or on other days for time and a half.
There are other times one can see your family.
The problem is people who would impose blue laws on other people are a menace. Can’t you just let people decide for themselves?
I was chomping at the bit to shop on Thanksgiving … at LAST!
But, it’s at 8PM at night! Who is griping at people working at 8PM?
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