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.
lol
if you don’t wont to work on the holidays, then I suggest you not pick an industry that is busiest during the holidays :)
My father was an airline pilot, and he missed nearly every Christmas, but for some reason I don’t remember him WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAing about it.
Be glad you got a job.
You're full of crap, and could not prove your statement even if the lives of your children depended on you doing so.
These are the holidays, and busy retailers, Walmart among them, are making sure they are fully, or even overstaffed, during the best earning period of the year.
Well said.
When I worked in retail, I used to volunteer to work the holidays. I got overtime and an extra day off. LOVED IT!
--and where does an "employer" have this "right", may I ask?
Quit and stop bothering the rest of us with your whining.
Wal-Mart is a great company...with faults like every other company
They employ literally 100,000 of people, are cutting edge in offering low prices like $4.00 prescription drugs, private label foods, supply chain management to cut costs.
Yeah, they are very competitive with their suppliers and manufacturer, but in the end we get better prices.
I never understand why people bash Wal-Mart, they save people literally billions of dollars a year.
I have a friend that works midnite shift at our local Walmart. He loves it. On Thanksgiving, he goes out to work at 8PM until 8AM the next morning. Big deal! His family is adjusting Thanksgiving dinner to earlier in the day - AND he is tickled pink to get the overtime pay.
My husband worked a swing-shift union job for 25 years, he very rarely had a Christmas or Thanksgiving off. That’s called REALITY, millions of people work on every holiday.
This is demanded by our 24/365 society, good or bad. Used to be everyone was closed on Sunday and holidays. I waited tables for years and often worked holidays, just the nature of the job. Retail is like that, you work often when everyone else is not at work. If you don’t like your hours, find a different job.
When I was a youngster working at Safeway I asked, well ahead of time, for a Saturday off so I could attend my brother’s wedding. Request denied. I quit the day before his wedding. Matter of priorities.
Make your choice and quit whining about it.
We always got Christmas and New Years off. That extra cash made for a fantastic News Years!
“Should we enact a law?”
People/employers should have enough respect for family life that there is no need for a law.
I was going to call him on his heart breaking “child working 12 hours in a mine” hyperbole. Then I remembered the old meme on arguing with an idiot.
This isn’t for me, but when I see friends that work their ass off and never get to see their family, it gets me going a little. I tell them not to worry about it, if you work hard it will pay off in the end.
Maybe they should hire nothing but Atheists.
Nobody on their deathbed ever says, “I wish I put more hours in at the office.”
Show up at any construction site you see and if you speak English and are willing to work, you will have a job on the spot.
Everyone wants a paycheck, no one wants to work.
I WORK FOR WALMART AND HAVE FOR 3 YEARS!!!!!
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