Posted on 11/22/2011 5:56:13 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
Count your blessings, then get to work.
That may be Thanksgiving for more retail workers this year, as stores desperate to pull in buyers on the first weekend of the holiday shopping season push their openings earlier and earlier.
Unhappy workers who say the earlier hours ruin their Thanksgiving celebrations are trying to persuade companies to back off, but retailers say they're stuck: It's what customers want.
Reporting to work at 11 p.m. on Thanksgiving Dayruinswhat issupposed to bea day spent with family, said Anthony Hardwick, who works part time at a Target store in Omaha, Neb., corralling carts.
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Yes it is the consumer that drives retail, anyone that wants to stop holiday shopping so the employees can be with their families needs to stay home on those days. If enough people did that the stores would not make money being open so they would close.
I have never shopped these sales, I have worked holidays many times. I imagine people will continue to mob the stores and the stores need employees to make sales so anyone that doesn’t want to work holidays will likely have to find other work. Before some of you post to me that there is no other work now- if that is true then those people need to thank their lucky stars they have a job and work as hard as they can so their employer makes enough money to keep them employed.
The only culture is the corporate culture, is that right?
never shopping on Sunday not a problem
You have that right. Unfortunately a few not shopping does not dent the gazillions that do. However it does put me at peace with the commandment to keep the Sabbath (Sunday in my case) holy.
Thank you!
You make overtime? Is that a union job?
It is cultural destruction pure and simple. The corporatists want everyone to be consuming all the time, never stopping for family or spiritual reflection.
The paradox is that they make so much money off of Christmas,and Thanksgiving, yet they have effectively killed it off.
They think that adding the billions of other people from other cultures— who may be ‘offended’ by Thanksgiving and Christmas will improve the bottom line. But the last laugh will be on them. Their ‘free trade’ scheme creates societies in communist countries that produce goods but doesn’t pay enough wages for the workers to buy them. Not only have they destroyed our economy, they have made us ‘interdependent’ with the coming communist China economic implosion.
And since we have forgotten to give thanks and and preserve the Christian roots of our founding, as evidenced by many of the comments on this thread, we will have no platform to sustain us and rebuild our society.
Who gets paid overtime these days? Union workers, government workers. Which one are you?
***You make overtime?***
When I worked in a chicken hatchery, no. Straight time for weekends and holidays.
When I worked in the power plants, yes it was union and the plant had to be manned 24/7. I loved the overtime and was willing to work others vacations and if they wanted off for the holidays.
I am now retired. No union pension, only savings from the OT.
Now go look at the state labor laws and see how many occupations are exempt from overtime.
Overtime for most workers is non-existent, so it isn’t really an honest argument. And how do you preserve the cultural fabric of the nation, if its cultural identity is subsumed by the corporatist mantra that everything must be 24/7? Its just turning the country into OWS anarchy, a mish-mash of nothing. No culture, no belief.
Well said.
Anyone complaining about their job with 9%+ i love to say, there’s always unemployment.
xsmommy will you see your child/children on Thanksgiving day? Do you believe in a culture that promotes rather than breaks family ties?
i believe that one should do what it takes to put food on the table.
i believe that one should do what it takes to put food on the table.
i believe that one should do what it takes to put food on the table.
You don’t believe in the cultural compact on which America was founded then.
neither, this was 35 yrs ago; although I would think Target would pay employees over time for working Thanksgiving. But it really doesn’t matter; if you are an employee working retail you work the hours scheduled. If you do not like the work, work somewhere else, or find a job in a different industry.
Thank you. I think we are losing all that is dear about American Culture and eventually, Western Civ.
Thank you. I think we are losing all that is dear about American Culture and eventually, Western Civ.
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