I want to smack these people.
For the last 30 plus years, I have worked many many Thanksgivings, Christmases, New Years, etc. Hearing these damn whiners bitching about having to get their asses to work just like countless employees before them makes me want to hurl.
Maybe these punks ought to quit. Or try to form a union. Idiots.
Any Denny’s workers a part of this? :-D
Now they know why retail is not a valid career path, as most of the rest of us figured out when we were young.
I must really be getting old. As a teen I remember grabbing as many holiday hours as I could. Loved the overtime $$$.
“Crybaby alert?” Are you serious? As the Pope said (the last one) “Man is not made for work, work is made for man.” Humans are not just supposed to be slaves.
Already the “blue laws” were repealed allowing stores to remain open on Sunday and church attendance decreased. Now the stores (places for us to buy more garbage made in China that we don’t need) will be open 24-7 even on the most reered holidays. Each day endlessly like the last, nothing sacred because it is not cool to give thanks to God for your blessings or to celebrate a Christian holiday like Christmas. (If you are celebrating hip hop or sex with multiple partners or species, that is cool, however.)
This is just more reason why we need forced unionization.
This message brought to you by your friendly neighborhood SEIU goons.
Waffle House employees are REQUIRED to work at least four hours on every holiday.
Not to mention hospital staff, police officers, fire dept, etc...
I wouldn’t leap to any conclusions without more information about particular workplaces. A lot depends on what employees are told when they hired on, and on how a place has traditionally been run. If an employer needs you to be able to work nights, late hours, weekends, etc. and to change schedules at the drop of a hat, fine — but people need to know this up front. Retail can be a tough gig, but even retail doesn’t own you 24/7.
Sundays have become shopping days. Holidays are now shopping days.
Consumers can end this commercialism by staying home and shopping Monday-Saturday and never on a holiday. Retailers can only make money if customers show up.
I disagree.
Our culture has been breaking down for years. Families spend hardly any time together and the ties are weak. The government is at the tail end of atomizing us into individual units without supports.
Having holidays and Sundays available to make and reinforce ties with others was a culture-making endeavor. Granted there has always been skeleton staffs at the 24/7 operations like hosptials and treatment plants and bridges and many others.
We complain aabout the coarsening of the culture, but we aid it by placing money above everything. In order to apprciate and understand our culture we need time to reflect on it, find it valueaable and honor its rites.
I worked retail during the holidays.
I hated it as it fully killed my love for the season. Not until I saw the Vatican Christmas mass a few years later did I start to get it back.
These people should quit like I did, although I do sympathize with their sentiment. It is a job. If you are going to stay then roll with the punches.
Anyway, I plan on shopping local. I’m not giving a dime to these soulless boxes of China crap.
man, how times have changed, when I was younger we loved having to work on Holidays and Sundays (Bible Belt) because that meant overtime or an extra days work which meant a bigger pay check!
Get a life, already!!!
The petition was received by Anahita Cameron, Target's director of human resources for Northern region stores...
Ms. Cameron promptly threw the three bags in the incinerator.
Sorry, I sympathize with these people. I normally work Christmas Eve (I volunteer) and in a family of musicians, some one is working on a holiday. I don’t mind restaurants being open as some people really don’t cook and the restaurants are probably supporting emergency room staff by preventing accidents and food poisoning. I have considered moving into a fine dining waitstaff position and understand that Thanksgiving and Easter would be high volume working days.
General retail, though, makes me nuts. I find it really pathetic that people can’t stop and just spend time with their neighbors and families for ONE DAY.
Don’t shop, don’t go to the movies. Enjoy a meal and visit. Go to the high school early afternoon football game or the parish’s morning activity. If you are really at loose ends, volunteer at a nursing home or soup kitchen’s celebration.
Besides who are they buying this stuff for? A lot of Black Friday merchandise doesn’t end up being a true Christmas gift. It’s something the purchaser bought for themselves.
Don’t work in retail, then. Go work for the government. Problem solved.
I can’t think of an Easter, 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas or New years day I’ve had off. I always wanted to work those days as that is when my paycheck was MUCH BIGGER!
What if all stores were REQUIRED to close those days? Can anyone travel to Grandma’s house if all convenience and gas stations are closed? How about aircraft pilots getting the day off. No flights! You would basicly have a complete shutdown of the US.
Why should Power Plant workers be on the job so others can have power to enjoy the holidays?
Quit bitching and enjoy the overtime pay!
The only culture is the corporate culture, is that right?
Anyone complaining about their job with 9%+ i love to say, there’s always unemployment.
It is not unreasonable for workers to have Thanksgiving and Christmas off from work. They can keep bloody Friday on Friday.