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........
I'll bet that job and factory have been gone for while. This plant means "made in America"
You are describing a good job at a good wage that you could buy a house with. Where in the 1970s your wife could stay at home and not have to work and some of the public schools were good. Quite a contrast with working overtime at a low wage WalMart job selling communist China made items