Posted on 11/13/2011 11:06:23 AM PST by eccentric
***-—No employer should ever have the “right” to compel a person to work twelve hours per day seven days a week.—****
Oh for heaven’s sake. In the “Good old days” the average work day was 16 hours a day, six days a week.
At my job I worked many a 16 hour day. got well paid for it.
Wouldn’t want to do it every day!
Damn right, get off your ass and find a different job. The employer deserves better.
Leave the job for someone who appreciates it.
It’s possible there is a big difference between tending to ill people and selling merchandise. One is necessary, the other is not.
I just worked 4 12-13 hours days in a row for a software go live. Happens all the time in IT - you work when you have to.
They are getting paid to work at Walmart. Everyone knows Black Friday is crazy. If you don’t like it, work somewhere else.
Be thankful you have a job.
Apparently you overlooked me saying I work for Walmart. How convenirnt for you. There is a sign posted by our time clock that states “THERE IS NO OVERTIME”. If employess even so much as have 3 minutes overtime they are written up for it. I heard an employee state YESTERDAY that he was written up for staying over 6 minutes. So don’t tell me I don’t know what’s going on.
What do you know of Walmart’s overtime policy?
My wife worked several years as an RN at a hospital, and we had plenty of occasions where holidays were pretty much non-existent for our family. That’s a given when you apply for the job. Do people go to work retail seriously thinking they are going to be off on holidays? She’s the unit manager now, and has to listen to people bitch about it. I work as an admin in IT at the same place, and my job is 24/7/365. If the network in our Emergency Department decides to shit the bed on Thanksgiving and they call me, I can’t tell them to “wait until tomorrow” because I’m off. Even worse, I’m paid ‘salary’, so I don’t even get paid extra when I have to work on holidays.
While I DO sympathize for those who have to work on holidays, I have no use for any bitching about it.
More idiocy from the uneducated and uninformed class.
Apparently you don’t read. I work at Walmart so who’s the idiot now? Not me.
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THAT'S A DAMN SHAME!!!!!!
You're cheating Walmart, stealing from them.
It's time to quit and open to the spot for an employee who appreciates working for them.
That's why I really admire people I see working jobs like that - they have too much self-esteem to give up and let Pappy Government take care of them. Kudos to them!
barry obutma is turning America into a nation of cry-babies...just like him.
****Having hours change to working 12 shifts with only 10 between is NOT.****
You should work in a power plant! When there is a mechanical failure all vacations are immediatly canceled, hours changed from 8 to 12 or 16. Only 8 hours between shifts is required and you work until the plant is back on line, 7 days a week.
I have often worked 12 or 16 hours a day for three months straight with no time off!
I NEVER said I didn’t appreciate it! I work because I have to. We don’t complain we so our jobs. People will be there but I posted the truth about Walmart wether people like it or not.
I did overlook seeing that you work for them.
You need to quit. Walmart, and Walmart customers, deserve better.
I’m sure you can be replaced in a NY minute.
Who gets to make that judgment, you? The government? Walmart is open because LOTS of customers go shopping that day. If people didn't WANT to flock to the stores on holidays, then more retail outlets like Walmart would remain closed. The truth is, many people like shopping on holidays. Who are you to tell them they shouldn't? And who are you to tell retail stores they shouldn't cater to all those shoppers?
People are free to pursue an education, technical degree or certifications to get the kind of job where they don't have to work on holidays. When I was in university, I worked retail for extra money and one of the things that drove me through school is I knew I did not want to work retail for very long - and didn't want to work weekends or holidays ever. I made sure to get a degree and follow a career path that made it possible to have weekends off and not have to work holidays. Other people make different decisions, and some actually like retail and don't mind the crazy hours. The free market will sort these things out, we don't need you or government deciding who can open on holidays.
Then you should be telling your friends to find a different line of work.
It's a family business. I guess we don't feel much of a need to have get-togethers when the majority of us see each other on a daily basis.
Christmas has been dinner at Outback for the past 7-8 years. Evil step-mother scolded us all for showing up at their house with dinner and a cake for my fathers 80th birthday, a mere 2 months after he had a major stroke.
Let's just say we be a bit disfunctional as a family unit.
Ya got to love moronic statements like yours.
Private sector wages have been declining for almost a decade as the cost of nearly everything has *doubled* and tripled...Most companies are slashing and reducing or completely eliminating employer health care benefits .The standard of living follows these declines.
Off-shore hundreds of thousands of American jobs/businesses, while big-gov rolls out the red carpet for tens of millions of low wage workers.
No enough?
As the tax payer watch their wages and standard of living implode, they're forced to bail out these mammoth fatcorps and Wall Street to the tune of multiple trillions.
You paint your own profile very well.
I think the workers should find other jobs if they don’t like the one they have now.
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