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Oct 23, '14 4:06pm
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When this argument was raging last year, I pointed out that every person working on Thanksgiving...or any other holiday for that matter...chose to be employed willingly and that many of them were actually counting on the extra pay from overtime.Pretty simple to me. If your job requires you to work weekends and holidays and you're not good with that, find a different job. If you're not qualified for anything else, take advantage of living in this most wonderful of Internet ages to get an education in a field that is looking for workers...and find a different job.When I was in the military I had to work more than a few weekends and a whole bunch of holidays. There was no extra pay and no calling in sick. It was part of the job and I knew that going in and every time I re-enlisted. Eventually I got tired of it, got educated, and found a different job. 4951
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Oct 23, '14 4:36pm
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some people don't have a choice where they work, some just need to work. If everybody took the holidays off nothing would get done and then the people will be complaining nobody is at work.In my job we work 24/7, on scheduled shifts. I have worked liked this since 1996. People whine and cry for days off. Big deal,,, to me a holiday is a time work, I get more money on holidays. I have missed weddings, football games, other special events. To me holidays are a nice time, but 99% of the time, its over within a few hours. so the rest of the day nothing is going on. Where I work, people traveling international usually don't celebrate American Holidays, except for New Years.Think about that.. Christmas,,, what 1 hour for presents, 1 hour for dinner and talk,, the rest of the time is just hanging out, cleaning up. Christmas eve, is usually at church for 1 hour.4th of July,,, 1 hour worth of fireworks for the kids,, maybe a b-b-qThanks giving... 6 hours of work for 1 hour of dinner,,, what really happens on thanksgivingEaster - 1 hour church, 1 hour hunting eggs, and eating.... rest cleaning upValentines day,, is not a holiday,,, its a Hallmark card day,,, where a guy buys tons of junk and its over the next day.Presidents day or MLK day,, what kind of family holiday is that... its just a day off.Columbus day,,, which most of the time people don't even know what day it is.New Years,, that's about 3 hours of partying, then people go home.the 4 true days are Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and 4th of July,, those are the days to spend with family,, maybe New yearsI'm not wanting to sound like a scrooge,, but if you look a the actual time you do things, "with the family" its not really any different from a normal day. I am all for holidays and spending with family,, but why do people complain about holidays, when you can do the same thing on another day off. 4951
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~ 9 years ago
Oct 23, '14 5:15pm
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So at the risk of beating a dead horse, here's my rant on this very topic from FB last year:I'm so tired of people *****ing about <insert retail store name> being open on Thanksgiving at <insert time prior to your sacred hour>. As far as my memory goes back, gas stations have been open all day on Thanksgiving, as have restaurants, and movie theaters, and hospitals, police stations, fire stations, tv stations, radio stations. Airplanes fly, trains run, buses are on-schedule. Your electricity is on, natural gas, water, sewer, your ever-so-precious cable/satellite/Internet. None work by themselves, all are monitored and maintained by real live human beings. The parade that you love to watch so much is followed by entire crews of paid workers cleaning up the mess. And then there's the NFL game times 3. Team support staff, TV crew, event staff, vendors, transportation, parking attendants, etc. I don't lack sympathy for the retail workers that had to be in early or late. I understand that it sucks. I'm also not going to eviscerate shoppers for wanting to get a deal. Not everyone has a familiy event that they could or would want to attend. Maybe the only thing in their life that they have to be thankful for is saving $20 on that new thing they are wanting. Whatever the reasons, the causes, and effects can we please stop pretending that we've killed some sort of sacred cow? Happy Holidays. 4951
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