Stay open on Christmas, McDonald s franchisees expected

18.7 yrs
~ 13 years ago Jun 23, '13 12:15pm

Difference(s) between working in a chemical plant, hospital as a nurse, doctor or specialist and working at McDonald's?

McDonald's employees are paid minimum wage while the others are on salary.

McDonald's employees are primarily temporary jobs while those others are professional positions.

By the way...holiday pay is double time. If they don't give you that, don't volunteer to work that day. Oh...and they can't make you work on holidays either.

jax: Not true, when my husband worked for International Paper (IT), if a holiday fell on your day to work, you worked. They worked 3 days a week 12 hr. shifts. IP has facilities all over the world that don't close for the same holidays.
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15.5 yrs
~ 13 years ago Jun 23, '13 12:20pm

Retail stores will be open because of DEMAND/consumers not because of supply.

BooBear:

I know there's demand out there for chic-fil-a and Hobby Lobby to be open on Sundays. They choose not to though and their businesses are doing just fine. 4951

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19.1 yrs
~ 13 years ago Jun 23, '13 12:26pm

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>> Retail stores will be open because of DEMAND/consumers not because of supply.

BooBear:

I know there's demand out there for chic-fil-a and Hobby Lobby to be open on Sundays. They choose not to though and their businesses are doing just fine.

KellyG:

Exactly but they choose to not take them but that doesn't mean other stores have to follow suit and it doesn't make those stores wrong for being open. 4951

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20.6 yrs
~ 13 years ago Jun 23, '13 2:11pm

I know there's demand out there for chic-fil-a and Hobby Lobby to be open on Sundays. They choose not to though and their businesses are doing just fine.

KellyG: It's a totally valid point, and at one point in time it was even more common. Look I'm an atheist, but I'm not knocking the Christian anti-capitalist notion of family time that comes at a cost of economic wealth. It's not unique to Christians either, most socialists embrace this concept. I'm all about that. The issue is that eventually capitalism puts these businesses out because they fail to compete. Right now Chick-Fil-A is at a disadvantage because it isn't open on Sunday. Every Sunday they're not open, their competitors extract more profit from the workers and use it to grow their business. Eventually, Chick-Fil-A is illsuited to compete.
Give it another 20 years. I was alive and remember when Randall's started selling alcohol. Christian morals eventually give way to class interests, or the company that embodies those morals goes belly-up or gets acquired. There are no exceptions. 4951

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20.6 yrs
~ 13 years ago Jun 23, '13 2:13pm

And, if they do go bankrupt for their principled stance, their ignorant Christian compatriots will gladly shout at them as they roll down their window,

"Get a job, ******!"

Seen it on numerous occasions. Class ignorance stings all. 4951

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