Thursday, November 22, 2012
Some Thanksgiving graphic silliness on Facebook:
If she was not planning on shopping today anyway (probably the case), why turn it into a moral crusade? We all know the Black Friday thing is out of control. Lots of people work on Thanksgiving. Some of them have too. Some of them aren't paid enough money to do it. Some of them are. Some want to work: restaurant wait staff, bartenders & car valets - profitable day for them.
The upshot: People have to work in retail stores whether you shop or not. There are stores where the moral choice is not to shop at them ever, on any day.
(I worked at a large art supply store that closed on certain holidays not out of any concern for employees, but because there wouldn't be enough business to warrant calling in the 25 or so minimum staff needed to open it.)
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Because I believe
in family
I pledge to
NOT SHOP
on
Thanksgiving
If I'm shopping, someone else is working
and NOT spending time
with their family
Everyone deserves
a Holiday.
If she was not planning on shopping today anyway (probably the case), why turn it into a moral crusade? We all know the Black Friday thing is out of control. Lots of people work on Thanksgiving. Some of them have too. Some of them aren't paid enough money to do it. Some of them are. Some want to work: restaurant wait staff, bartenders & car valets - profitable day for them.
The upshot: People have to work in retail stores whether you shop or not. There are stores where the moral choice is not to shop at them ever, on any day.
(I worked at a large art supply store that closed on certain holidays not out of any concern for employees, but because there wouldn't be enough business to warrant calling in the 25 or so minimum staff needed to open it.)
