....”employees want to pick a few extra bucks....employees usually make double, or more”....
Not so fast....this was true at one time, and employees who wanted volantered because there were enough to do so. Not so in the retail climate today. You don’t have that leisure to choose.
Further office politics come into play....”Favorites” get time off and choice select days and hours while the others get slammed with brutal work hours.
When the box stores decided to open Thanksgiving Evening....the favorites worked from eight to midnight and were paid time and half for four hours. Those who worked midnight til 8:00 black Friday morning...( staying up all night to great the additional busiest day of the year) were paid regular time even though they had twice the workload. Further they had to come back into work that day by 3:00.
Many in the store I work had no time to even squeeze Thanksgiving in....it was not fun by any means and many were disgusted enough to begin looking for other work....enough was enough.
Additionally the week after Christmas any money you is lost as they cut hours dramatically.....some to just four hours that week and throughout January and Feb. So your basically loosing, and then some, anything you might have made that one day.
There were other variables that also come into play.....so I vote no to Holiday shopping. I just came off a ten hour day today...non-stop back to back...to go into work yet again tomorrow til close....close to forty hours in four days....and I’m “Part-time”. The full time people did not work half as much.
You need to start your own business and run it the way you want to run it, instead of “voting” how you want to force others to run theirs….
Thank-you for telling it just like it is. A good and blessed Merry Christmas to you and your dear ones.