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.
hardly, companies will pay higher for workers with a record of dependable service, work and skills. Again, they are not slaves, so why aren’t they bettering themselves and moving on up?
Wake up to reality bub - you will find very few companies that ‘treat’ their workers after the fashion you apparently design. Walmart is in the retail sector of the economy and if the ‘workers’ can’t figure that as such it will require additional WORK during the holiday period, then it is no surprise they haven’t found better jobs.
Or perhaps you are just some union-wonk who is stirring up the pot, wanting them to get something for nothing just like the OWS bums.
Why don’t you go join an Occupy protest. You sound just like those people.
A hostile, Obama, union-thug friendly, government makes for a very difficult corporate environment. The health of the company is important. Black Friday is important to the bottom line. Companies can afford to be more “family-friendly” in an environment that is free from Union Thugs.
I see no problem here. If the workers are compensated and it is good for the company, there is no down side.
LOL!
That’s some pretty funny satire right there. Hats off..!
awwwwwwwwww
LETS PROTEST~!!
People shouldnt be forced to work at jobs... um,....
“be told to work 16 hours on a hoilday by corporate bosses”
I’m sure those “corporate bosses” never worked a 16 hour day. /s
I’m not a corporate anything but I sure as hell have worked more than a 16 hr. day since we work for ourselves. Try that and then get back to me.
You still don’t get it.
Many of us have been there, some of us still are.
We didn’t complain, we made do. I’ve worked Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, AND New Years. In fact, I worked some of them totally alone in the building processing warranties, at .50 over minimum wage. At least you have some friends to work with.
So instead of telling them to ‘put some ice on it.’, how about you tell them to give thanks for the job they have and the great people they get to work with. If they don’t want to repeat it next year, try something else. How about waitressing or busing tables? Can’t tell you how many of those I worked, lifting three foot trays and pouring coffee EVERY HOLIDAY! At least you’ll have time to grab a piece of Turkey. We started at 5am and went until the last customer walked out.
(Let’s not even talk about the number of UNEMPLOYED FReepers you have chosen to offend)
Personally, I don’t do Black Friday. When Meijer is open on Thanksgiving, I don’t go there because if all of us skipped it, they wouldn’t stay open.
Perhaps instead of b!tching about Wal-Mart, you b!tch about the customers who WILL be there to service. Because if they weren’t, you wouldn’t be open. Understand?
As has been pointed out, you’re nothing more than a union troll, not worthy of FR.
Sorry, I ignore ignorant union thugs posing as conservatives, and I despise ignorant union thugs that are also blatant racists.
You and I are in similar situations. 40 hours is a 3 day thing for me, as well... crunch time and it takes only 2 days to do 40 hours.
It’s funny in a sad way, isn’t it?
My previous post “Sorry, I ignore ignorant union thugs posing as conservatives, and I despise ignorant union thugs that are also blatant racists.” was in reference to dragnet2’s posting 162.
“I guess these workers deserve to be told to work 16 hours on a hoilday by corporate bosses.”
Yep. If they don’t like it, they can quit. Bottom line.
Again, let me remind you: Our troops are working this Thanksgiving. So are first responders. So are ER docs and nurses. So are pharmacists.
LOL!
“Yes, Walmart is hiring and if you can’t get a job there, you must really be losers!”
Is that any way to talk about YOUR FRIENDS who work there?
Everybody has the job they earned. I used to work fast food, went back to school, now I’m in software, at a relaxed software company filled with mature people and we don’t work much OT. But it was a long hard road. A road that involved working a lot of hours in times when people would rather not. I never worked Thanksgiving but I have worked every day of November (yeah weekends, and Black Friday) other than Thanksgiving, and that year also hit every day of December except Christmas. And I was on salary then, no OT, no comp, there was work to be done and a deadline to be met and the vast majority of the company worked 59 out of 61 days in the holiday and nobody whined. And I actually liked that job, it was hard but it was fun, and I was young enough to live that life. It was a stepping stone to getting to where I am now, off the whole 4 day weekend and going to a restaurant.
Oh please, cry me a river. Retail workers are not the only labor segment that works holiday hours.
Try farming. Livestock is 24/7/365. Try self employment and paying your employees before you pay yourself and trying to find employees that show up sober, don’t whine or steal you blind.
Life is tough. Some have good luck, some have bad and others work their asses off to make their own luck.
Furthermore, Thanksgiving as a family tradition does not have to occur on the 4 Thursday of November. Generally, any family with two brain cells can figure out the best time to have a celebratory feast that fits all or most of its members.
Christmas in July is a great theme for a family reunion.
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