Pizza Hut is now in my "No Buy Zone" after this.
Look on the bright side: with the experience he has, he can open his own pizza joint and keep it closed on Thanksgiving.
Well come on man, they gotta stay open! Gotta pay all them taxes to support illegals and the welfare breeding cows not to mention the Obamacare scam.
Those franchise holders will come to regret it when their PO-ed employees fall prey to the siren song of Leftism and join a union, or elect somebody like Elizabeth Warren as President.
Some of our problems with leftism are the result of us p*ssing in our own pool IMO.
I worked at Pizza Hut and we were open on Thanksgiving. You had your choice of shift and they were short and we did not open until 3PM.
why would they want a pizza hut to be open on thanksgiving? I thought places were staying open for the shoppers.
Surely his contract is specific on work time requirements. If there is a provision that work on Thanksgiving is required, he has no beef. If not, then use labor law to redress his grievance. But if he wants to take the extra dough as a manager, he takes the duties as well.
Whether it is wise for the company to remain open on Thanksgiving is a separate matter.
That’s weird. At Domino’s, many years ago, I opened on Thanksgiving. I had one delivery. The girl who closed had one delivery. I’m surprised any pizza places are open on Thanksgiving anymore.
I have no sympathy for him.
My dad ran his own business and had to be on call 365 days per year. He often had to go out on major holidays. It was the nature of the job.
Pizza Hut may be a crappy restaurant but it’s still a restaurant. A lot of food service businesses are open on thanksgiving. This isn’t the same as opening stores on the holiday.
If doesn’t want to work in thanksgiving he shouldn’t work in the good service industry
So instead he will sit in his nice, warm house, supported by people working that day for the gas and electric utilities. He will no doubt turn on the TV, since there are people working at the station to bring him programming. He might watch a football game, played in a stadium filled with people working on Thanksgiving. If, God forbid, he chokes on a turkey bone then his family can call the 911 operator, working on the holiday, who will dispatch the paramedics, working on the holiday, to take him to the emergency room where the doctors and nurses, working on the holiday, will take care of him.
But if he wants a pizza then he's out of luck.
There are a lot of people who work on Thanksgiving (or any of the Holidays for that matter).
It goes with having a job.
On those times when I had to work on Thanksgiving (I was in the medical field at the time) we just delayed dinner until I got home
There are things you need to stand up for and fight, and there are some fights that are not worth winning.
This is one of them. Sorry he lost his job, but then I guess he will have more time with his family.
Nothing like carving the Thanksgiving pizza.
Yup, “no buy zone”. Their pizza is garbage anyway.
2. Guy disobeys his bosses request even knowing he could get fired.
3. Guy gets fired.
Where is the part I'm supposed to feel bad for him?
(My first Christmas in the USAF found me on CQ duty all night. Good experience at toughing up a bit as a teen.)
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I’m afraid working on holidays goes with the job. And having worked there that long, he knew that. As manager, he could let those workers off who really needed it for family reasons. The only result of this will be he’s out of a job, and a less considerate and probably less knowledgeable manager will take his place.
My idea of a good Thanksgiving is not to take my kids to Pizza Hut to celebrate, but there are people who do, or they wouldn’t stay open.
You feel the same about the military taking off Thranksgiving? How about the hospital, police station, fire station? Would you want them to send home prisoners so the guards could enjoy turkey at lunch? When the cable goes out 30 seconds after the football game starts wouldn't you be on the phone complaining there aren't workers repairing the signal immediately? Would you deny a poor working stiff from getting a paycheck because you think they should be home? It's not like employees are already being hurt by hours and insurance being cut but you want them to close Pizza Hut or whatever business so they lose a day of pay. Who knew there was an official hour that the turkey must be carved. Noon, mid afternoon or a late dinner doesn't matter.
Yup. Fire one poor shlubb to put fear into the populous. That’s gotta be one of the Alynski points. We will make an example of you.
This why I don’t go out and spend on Thanksgiving or Christmas.
After my military service was over, and I went to work, in thirty eight years of working, I only turned down overtime twice, due to fatigue.
For the rest I never missed a chance to earn overtime. I worked holidays, vacation for others, more holidays, double shifts, and was on call every day I was off.
I am retired and all that overtime paid off handsomely.
If I was working now, and had a chance to work Thanksgiving and earn overtime plus holiday pay I would work. I consider it “easy money”.