You tell them yankee...You get 10 cent off on next bag of tainted doggy yum yums....You work walmart on yankee Christmas, you like, you be proud yankee...haha......Bye bye now!
Posted on 11/13/2011 11:06:23 AM PST by eccentric
Around the country, night workers at Walmart stores are being told to come in five hours early ON Thanksgiving. After having work until 7am that morning, they must get whatever sleep they can and then reutrn to work at 5pm for a 12 hour shift. How much time does this leave for them to spend the holiday with their family?
Walmart wants to call their employees associates. No, they are just workers.
Get your ass to work, and sell those Communist products. We don't give a damn if it's Christmas or Thanksgiving..Screw that traditional American crap!
Thank you DIRTYSECRET. I had to read 185 posts but you finally said what needs to be said.
Retail selling is not emergency work, medicine, or the armed forces. Ever earlier department store hours on Black Friday and now Thanksgiving are driven by greed and oneupmanship. It disgusts me. No one can tell me the person who buys the video game on Thanksgiving evening would not buy the same item on following day at 10:00 am if the store wasn’t open on Thanksgiving. Ditto for being open on Christmas. Normal retail should not be open those days.
Business owners who do not honor our AMERICAN traditions just to make a quick buck should be shunned by the public.
Dallas59 told you well. Unfortunately, “You gotta do what you gotta do.” If it’s any consolation, my husband and I have long refused to go shopping on the two major holidays (Thanksgiving and Christmas). Sorry, but you can buy the big-screen TV on another day; Christmas IS important. The only store we’ll frequent is a supermarket, and that’s if we forgot something the day before. Otherwise, there are 364 other days to go shopping. There are more important things than money, and one of them is honoring the Lord Jesus Christ on the day we traditionally treat as His Birthday with your family.
But since you’ll be working on Thanksgiving, try to keep a good perspective and think about the person who is trying to feed his or her family while they’ve been out of a job for a year or more. You won’t be alone because you’ll have coworkers who are there, too. Cook the turkey and enjoy your family on your first day off.
Dallas59 told you well. Unfortunately, “You gotta do what you gotta do.” If it’s any consolation, my husband and I have long refused to go shopping on the two major holidays (Thanksgiving and Christmas). Sorry, but you can buy the big-screen TV on another day; Christmas IS important. The only store we’ll frequent is a supermarket, and that’s if we forgot something the day before. Otherwise, there are 364 other days to go shopping. There are more important things than money, and one of them is honoring the Lord Jesus Christ on the day we traditionally treat as His Birthday with your family.
But since you’ll be working on Thanksgiving, try to keep a good perspective and think about the person who is trying to feed his or her family while they’ve been out of a job for a year or more. You won’t be alone because you’ll have coworkers who are there, too. Cook the turkey and enjoy your family on your first day off.
Well, if you don't like it, don't participate and arrange your work life so you don't have to work the holidays, as well. But for a lot of people, being required to work is a blessing over no job at all. Alternatively, people can go on the dole and help Obama spread dependency further in America.
better yourself....learn....get another better paying job with better hours.....it used to be the American way.....before we became whiners entitled to more....
In retail, you know about Black Friday when you applied for the job. It has been a popular shopping day for years.Do not take a job in retail if you do not want to work on holidays.
I do not shop at WalMart.However, some people find it fun to shop the day after Thanksgiving, and the stores are responding to that need.
There is also going to be a lot of restaurants open that day, too.
Society has changed. People want to spend their time off during the holiday season to shop.You are providing that service.
That is just the way it is.
Good reply. The normal freeper attitude is to hate all unions and that everyone (except them) should work for serf wages and kiss their arse if they are waiters or service or retail personnel. They imagine they are 17th century French aristocracy. “Let them eat cake”
You tell them yankee...You get 10 cent off on next bag of tainted doggy yum yums....You work walmart on yankee Christmas, you like, you be proud yankee...haha......Bye bye now!
How long have you worked at Walmart?
Honchos seem to call the shots in most endeavors.
Why aren’t you taking this up with your Walmart supervisor instead of airing the dirty laundry here?
dittos!
If Obama is re-elected, Wal-Mart could be unionized in much of the country before his second term is out. The NLRB’s Boeing-South Carolina decision indicates a willingness to prohibit Wal-Mart’s standard defenses, and their response to successful votes, which has been to close the offending store or department.
At a certain point, Wal-Mart will capitulate. Better to strike a national deal with the UFCW that it’s competitors will struggle to beat, than run the risk of fighting it out and being forced to run hundreds of stores unprofitably.
The normal freeper attitude is to hate all unions and that everyone (except them) should work for serf wages and kiss their arse if they are waiters or service or retail personnel.Nonsense. Rather we believe that what you do matters. You want to work in retail, OK. Accept that wages are lower. You want to join a union, go ahead, just don't force anyone else to. You wanna bitch and moan? Do it somewhere else.
And freepers consider them serfs. As in -- "Serf, fetch me that Black Friday discounted 55" communist made LED TV. I don't have enough commie made stuff in my house yet"
It’s still a feww country, and as far as dirty laundry, well people need to know and the article was posted so I answered. I have spoken to a supervisor to no avail and as I don’t want to lose my job I left the matter alone. Sometime in the future I might look elsewhere but walmart will do for now.
Many people have spoken to management and been fired not long after. I am glad I was not yet one of them.
In fact, I have a friend who retired from Chrysler as a tool and die maker 2 1/2 years ago who complained that his group never got any overtime work.....
Those who do work the holidays always make the best of it and turn it into their own festive home away from home atmosphere by bringing in homemade foods which are shared on site......nobody complains about having to work.
As for the Walmart employees, they'll get compensated overtime pay which will come in handy for Christmas......
As a side note, at the Tier I manufacturing stamping plant where I used to work on Detroit's east side, there was an electrician who logged 4,000+ hours three years in a row..with many of those days working 12 - 16 hours........
bs ... no sale. When your children and grandchildren end up in serf type jobs (due to our decline) you will sing a different tune.
Just for the record since you saw need to ping JimRob— I am against all Gov’t unions, they should be outlawed. Private sector unions vary greatly. I am dead set against SIEU type unions. Boeing should be allowed to set up shop anywhere USA
>>On THIS, I guess I will take exception and say that Walmart might want to consider being open for only a partial day and allowing everyone to give thanks to God...with their families.<<
Why does one need a particular DAY to Thank God and be with the family?!?
I worked banquets in college. I worked every holiday and so did my sister. There are four days in the Thanksgiving weekend and If you are working on Thursday, THANK GOD! Many people aren’t and you can pick Saturday to have Turkey and dressing.
THAT is what we did.
And freepers consider them serfs.So why do you post here if you have such contempt for freedom and self reliance?
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