Posted on 11/27/2013 10:58:34 AM PST by MeganC
ELKHART - Many stores and restaurants will be open this year on Thanksgiving Day, and one local man says he lost his job because of it. Tony Rohr worked at Pizza Hut for more than ten years, but says he was fired recently because he refused to open on Thanksgiving. He says he doesn't think people should have to work on a holiday like Thanksgiving. He started at Pizza Hut as a cook and worked his way up to being a general manager of the Jackson Boulevard Pizza Hut in Elkhart.
He was told opening on Thanksgiving this year was mandatory, so at a meeting with his superiors he decided to take a stand.
"I said, 'Why can't we be the company that stands up and says we care about our employees and they can have the day off?'"
Tony says it wasn't about him. It was about his employees. He told his bosses that he would not open the restaurant he managed on Thanksgiving.
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We have hospital nurses, used to have a person for a 24/7 IT job (NEVER had holidays off). The nurses cannot always be off on the actual day or have in-law things, etc. We work around it. It actually is less stressful for all.
You have a job, you do the job, its really no more complicated than that. Whether I agree whether the place should be open or not really has no bearing. Employees are employees...if you want to make the rules open your own business.
Note, I’m grateful for the handful of businesses that are open on Thanksgiving. I don’t need them much but while in college sometime in the 20th Century, I stayed “in town” twice rather than buying two plane tickets less than a month apart.
I was not permitted to remain in the dorm so the first time I stayed at a hotel on campus. The restaurant had a meal package for lunch that was good. They were closed for dinner and did not make this abundantly clear. I eventually had to settle for a burger from a greasy spoon diner. Very little was open.
The other time I stayed at a friend’s rental house.
If you find yourself without a stove/oven and possibly without a fridge, you too may need someplace to be open.
Another flight (I think it was a Christmas season/end of semester trip), my flight got postponed over 12 hours, missed my connecting flight, got put up in a hotel, got to the airport for the first available flight, got snowed in around 15 hours. Eventually made it home.
I’ve been at the airport where they waited (non holiday) until after the restaurants have closed ~8pm to announce that the flight will be delayed until after 10pm with no meal/snack service (this for a flight originally set to leave before noon, with no rain or snow, it was summertime and any “fog” delay was long over by the time I finally got to my destination at 2am).
He worked there over 10 years and is a Manager...and acts surprised when Corporate didn’t appreciate his making their rules for them, then says it was for the voiceless “workers” to boot.
I say the real reason he got sacked was because he’s an A-hole who supports OWS.
All he had to do was make up some ROP holiday for Nov 28, and they would have given him a prayer rug and the week off.
The way to end this working on Thanksgiving nonsense is for consumers to refuse to shop on Thanksgiving. Retailers might get the message if there were few sales. Ditto for malls etc. opening on Thanksgiving. When my daughter was working in the local mall and had to go in Thanksgiving eve for a midnight opening, she said sales were busy for the first hour and then the employees just sat around with no customers until about 8 am on Black Friday. I can’ believe that retailers are making that much more by being open so early.
LOL! Actually I got that off Bob Grant a long time ago, he was talking about welfare and how the public has to pay for it twice: To support the welfare breeding cows who let their kids run amok until the kids commit a crime then we have to pay to support them in prison. It’s absolutely true because I use to live across the street from a welfare motel in Queens New York and everyday I would walk by there and all you would hear would be the moans from them having sex, they did NOTHING all day but that. Well actually that’s not true, they would take a break and hang out in the parking lot smoking drinking, then back to having sex. Then the school bus would come in the morning to pick up the kids....If they decided to go to school, I would see the kids out at 2 am on a school night. It’s a vicious cycle which we pay for. This is how liberals stockpile votes
"Just remember, if you want to make your own rules, you better get your own store..."
I’m always eager to learn. So, in the absence of a contract, when one is employed as a general manager at a Pizza Hut, how are matters such as remuneration, hours, breaks, employee duties, working conditions etc. handled. Please enlighten me.
Baa waa waa! Poor wittle baby.....go down the street and get a job at McD’s, and quit crying.
If conservatives embrace this attitude then why is it of any surprise when liberals embrace this attitude? Next month the left will make a big show about how Christmas is nothing special and there will be a collective and predictable howl on FR about it.
Yet I imagine that plenty of the people who've posted on this topic would agree that Christmas is nothing special if the observance of the holiday were to get in the way of making a buck.
Yes, FReepers generally rail against the damage the Democrats do to our culture yet the majority on this topic are themselves chip, chip, chipping away at it just the same as any atheist Democrat.
You want to complain about how Democrats and liberals are eroding our culture and our families yet here's so many of you casually dismissing a family-oriented holiday because, HEY!!!!, there's money to be made!!! And your worship of the Almighty Dollar comes at the cost of the worship of God.
So all of these workers...millions of them across the country...will be working on Thanksgiving Day instead of being closer to their families and a bunch of you are just fine with this.
But give it a week or so and every last one of you will be upset about the decline of the family and our culture and let me pull off a glove and slap you in the face with it when I say that each of you (you know who you are) has contributed to the cultural decline of our country with your posts here today.
And don't think the libs and the DUmmies won't quote the legion of hypocrisies on this topic because they will.
But worst of all is how so many of you will live out your crass, money-grubbing attitudes and (lack of) values and chip, chip, chip away at the things that made our country great.
How many of you would so easily surrender your liberties and our freedoms so long as you can shop at Wal Mart and buy pizza at a crappy pizza chain on one of our nation's most important holidays?
The Bible speaks to people like yourselves:
29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. 30 He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.[d])
31 Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
32 “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”
33 But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left.
So Esau despised his birthright.
And so a bunch of conservatives sold their birthright on Thanksgiving for some cheap crap at Wal Mart and a crappy pizza.
I think the media hype surrounding this stunt is just another part in the next manufactured crisis to help support democrat candidates in the 2014 elections: the worker’s struggle.
Guys working food service and retail get fired for refusing to work every single holiday, that is not news. Probably not every day does a general manager get canned for disobeying corporate policies, but he knows if his hourly paid staff doesn’t work, they won’t get paid.
Why the stunt then? Because it showcases the “struggle” of the working joe who should naturally get paid holidays like those corporate fatcats. The media is eager to cover these stories because it helps push issues democrats can pander to, and at the same time make republicans look bad if they say anything critical.
If he were halfway smart and really wanted to give his team the day off with their families, as general manager, he could also orchestrate a “power/phone/plumbing problem” that conveniently shuttered the store just for the holiday and no one would be the wiser.
The peons working today, will some day be the executives at home with their families.
LOL, Sorry Officer!
Allow me to introduce you to this radical and amazing innovation that's known as the 'lunch bag'.
Shocking, isn't it?
Whenever I would work a holiday, I always kept that in mind. I know on FR having a heart can be a liability. Not everyone even has a family. Lot’s of lonely souls out there. I felt good about serving them.
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