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Many large retail stores like Target, Walmart, Toys R Us, Sears, and KMart will be the first chain retail stores to be open early for "Black Friday" shopping on Thanksgiving Day at 8 pm. Some other retail chains will stay open for Thanksgiving too for the first time.
Employees are against it, because they will not be able to spend important and traditional holiday with their family, and must show up to work (even hours before opening). More than 100,000 people have signed petition to change it, so stores keep closed all day on Thanksgiving for quality of life for the employees.
The CEO's and higher-ups who makes the decision on when to open the stores are the ones' who won't be working on Thanksgiving & Black Friday. They'll be home with their families (May probably check sales hourly so they can calculate how much bonus they will be receiving), while the people who need their minimum wage jobs are the ones' who will be missing out on Thanksgiving with their families. It's an example of how the rich are messing up with the low-income people
^ This is ridiculous and very sad how our society has been turned into. Stores are only closed for 1 - 3 days per year (used to be even on more holidays), but now they try to take away those too.
Thank God the town I live in, stores cannot be open before 7 AM (Including Black Friday) and must close at 11 PM, even though some tried to fight for keeping them open at 5 AM, or earlier for Black Friday.
This is due to Quality of Life for residents, workers, and business owners'!
ALL retail employees deserves to be OFF and get paid for Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day!
You and others can help by refusing to go on Thanksgiving but my understanding is that folks are already camping out for Black Friday so probably won't help much.
Many large retail stores like Target, Walmart, Toys R Us, Sears, and KMart will be the first chain retail stores to be open early for "Black Friday" shopping on Thanksgiving Day at 8 pm. Some other retail chains will stay open for Thanksgiving too for the first time.
Employees are against it, because they will not be able to spend important and traditional holiday with their family, and must show up to work (even hours before opening). More than 100,000 people have signed petition to change it, so stores keep closed all day on Thanksgiving for quality of life for the employees.
The CEO's and higher-ups who makes the decision on when to open the stores are the ones' who won't be working on Thanksgiving & Black Friday. They'll be home with their families (May probably check sales hourly so they can calculate how much bonus they will be receiving), while the people who need their minimum wage jobs are the ones' who will be missing out on Thanksgiving with their families. It's an example of how the rich are messing up with the low-income people
^ This is ridiculous and very sad how our society has been turned into. Stores are only closed for 1 - 3 days per year (used to be even on more holidays), but now they try to take away those too.
Thank God the town I live in, stores cannot be open before 7 AM (Including Black Friday) and must close at 11 PM, even though some tried to fight for keeping them open at 5 AM, or earlier for Black Friday.
This is due to Quality of Life for residents, workers, and business owners'!
ALL retail employees deserves to be OFF and get paid for Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day!
Back when I was a lad I used to be employed at places that required me to work on those days. This was in the late 80s and early 90s so I find it amusing that you state, "...how sad our society has been turned into." It's been this way for quite some time!
Anyway, I didn't really like working those days but at the same time I figured, "Hey, I have a job." As it turned-out, undesirable work days and hours (such as weekends and late at night) were one of the things that motivated me to study hard in college, graduate, and obtain employment with an employer that doesn't make me work on those days, on weekends, and late at night. I call it "the benefits of working hard and staying in school."
The only sad part about this story is the fact that millions of Americans will line up outside of big box retail stores all night long, waiting to trample fellow Americans in a desperate attempt to stuff as much meaningless sh*t into a shopping cart in celebration of their "Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ".
I agree...these folks are exploited in the worst way. Forced to work for money, to support their families.
Sorry....you work....you get paid. I work holidays. Always have. They can enjoy their family fine before work or after work.
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