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No one is making Americans shop on Thanksgiving. If the shops are busy then your claim is invalid.
Employees are forced to work !
Unfortunately there will always be shoppers because everybody wants to be first on line to get the best deal.
Soon Thanksgiving will be another full retail day :/
Unfortunately there will always be shoppers because everybody wants to be first on line to get the best deal.
Soon Thanksgiving will be another full retail day :/
Employees are not forced to work. We have laws protecting employees from forced labor.
Employees are not forced to do anything. They especially aren't forced to take a job that they know they will be working on thanksgiving. And if they just took that job recently they can pretty much guarantee they will be among those who will be working that day.
If it is so important for them to not work that day they could have taken a type of job that doesn't require work on Thanksgiving day. Plenty of them out there. Or they could ask in advance for the day off. Many businesses would be accommodating. Especially if it is someone who has been with them awhile. Seniority usually rules when asking for those days off. However, many would actually prefer working that day because of the extra pay that usually comes along with it.
Originally Posted by Lambados
May God destroy and punish greedy corporates!!
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Originally Posted by petch751
There is an easy answer. People need to stop being so materialistic and spend the holiday with their families. If people didn't go shopping on those days they wouldn't do it so to blame corporations is lame.
Not one person in my family shops those days how about yours?
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Originally Posted by ray1945
Who died and made you king??
MYOB
Did you bother reading the post I was responding to. One minute liberals complain about corporate greed and I respond don't shop and they won't open on holidays the next I'm asked who died and made me king
You see if you would stay home on holidays and not go shopping then they won't open the stores on holidays. It's that easy.
Last edited by CaseyB; 10-25-2013 at 06:55 PM..
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Employees are not forced to do anything. They especially aren't forced to take a job that they know they will be working on thanksgiving. And if they just took that job recently they can pretty much guarantee they will be among those who will be working that day.
If it is so important for them to not work that day they could have taken a type of job that doesn't require work on Thanksgiving day. Plenty of them out there. Or they could ask in advance for the day off. Many businesses would be accommodating. Especially if it is someone who has been with them awhile. Seniority usually rules when asking for those days off. However, many would actually prefer working that day because of the extra pay that usually comes along with it.
It's why I decided early on that a career in retail was NOT something I wanted to do. Working nights, weekends, and holidays sucks IMO, so I have worked either in education or administration my entire adult life ... M-F within the hours of 8 and 5.
Most department stores decided to open at 8 PM on Thanksgiving evening in order to compete, and now Simon malls decided to keep their malls open at 8 pm as well all until 10 pm on Black Friday for 26 hours straight, and told all retail stores located in the mall to follow mall holiday hours.
Wow what an evil world we have been turned into. I would be fine if CEO's and corporates left their families on important holidays and worked in the stores themselves that day. Such a greedy, cold hearted and selfish!
I hope that everyone contacts their local congressman to pass a law that forbids retailers to be open on major family holidays!!!!!! Unfortunately online petitions don't work because corporates ignore them despite hundreds of thousands of signatures mainly from workers!
Gahh greedy corporates! Isn't 362 days a year enough?!
OP! I understand your disdain for greed. But why waste time with a petition in trying to legislate nanny state laws and telling businesses when they can and cannot operate? I look at it this way. I have no plans to shop the night before Thanksgiving. Nor do I plan to do so on Black Friday. However; if people are dumb enough to give up their family time, or their time off after the holiday and either camp out in front of a store, and depending on where they live. stand out in the cold, then deal with a mob of idiots just to get a deal on the latest flat screen tv, then rock on!!!! I won't be part of it, and I think it's silly. But we don't need to make silly laws telling businesses when they can and cannot operate.
Furthermore, you don't think that the morons who stand in the cold for hours camping out waiting to bum rush the retail store the minute the doors open to save a few bucks, aren't selfish or greedy either?
Last edited by Ibginnie; 10-26-2013 at 08:15 PM..
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Shame on you! Most Americans do not want to shop or work on Thanksgiving.
If people didn't want to shop, the stores would be closed. Since people DO want to shop, the stores are open.
Don't like it? Open your own business, and give everyone a paid day off.
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