Posted on 11/22/2011 5:56:13 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
Count your blessings, then get to work.
That may be Thanksgiving for more retail workers this year, as stores desperate to pull in buyers on the first weekend of the holiday shopping season push their openings earlier and earlier.
Unhappy workers who say the earlier hours ruin their Thanksgiving celebrations are trying to persuade companies to back off, but retailers say they're stuck: It's what customers want.
Reporting to work at 11 p.m. on Thanksgiving Dayruinswhat issupposed to bea day spent with family, said Anthony Hardwick, who works part time at a Target store in Omaha, Neb., corralling carts.
(Excerpt) Read more at 2.timesdispatch.com ...
Thank you. I think we are losing all that is dear about American Culture and eventually, Western Civ.
It is not unreasonable for workers to have Thanksgiving and Christmas off from work. They can keep bloody Friday on Friday.
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