Manager fired for not opening on Thanksgiving

[Pink Ranger]

I worked at a municipal water treatment plant (that means I made the water safe to drink that comes out of your kitchen sink)

Finally, I have someone to send my actionable ideas about municipal "tap gravy" to. Check your PMs!

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Maybe people who could give a crap about that holiday or cooking a huge meal to celebrate the genocide of a people.

Thanksgiving is about celebrating the harvest. The holiday in October is the one celebrating genocide.

 

[Boom]

I work Thanksgiving night and Black Friday all day.

It sucks, it's not ideal, but it is what it is. I knew what I was signing up for when I took the job.

 

[Mike_D202]

Hungry Howies > Pizza Hut

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

bravo its the same in the uk the only two days retail staff are guaranteed off at easter Sunday and Christmas day

most have to be in at 7am on boxing day for starting sales, its ****ing moronic. hell i once worked in a shopping center where the 3 biggest stores (dunnes,primark and BHS) demanded the center open on christmas from 9-2 for anyone that needed last minute or didnt celebrate christmas

it will happen at some point all stores open 365

 

[Breogan]

Thanksgiving is about celebrating the harvest.

If by harvest you mean appropriation and theft of land, enslavement, spread of smallpox, and beginnings of a genocide of a people, then yeah.
Point was despite the approved narrative and holiday commemorating it, not everyone celebrates the national mythologizing of the Pequot massacre and what followed as a day as thanksgiving.

 

[O_B_Juan]

With stores opening earlier on Thanksgiving this year will the stories of people getting trampled trying to get deals be able to make the deadline for the 10 o'clock news?

 

[C. Lee]

If by harvest you mean appropriation and theft of land, enslavement, spread of smallpox, and genocide of a people, then yeah.
Point was not everyone celebrates the national mythologizing of the Pequot massacre and what followed as a day as thanksgiving and cooking a huge meal.

Since the time of the cave man....one group of people has done wrong to another group of people. The celebration of most things is in someway or another involves one group winning over another group. Thanksgiving is a celebration of the time two different groups worked together in friendship. It is not about what happened in the decades after it.

 

[cherokeesam]

Wait a minute.....people actually get Thanksgiving off for a holiday?

News to me.

Hell, I've worked every Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, New Years', Labor Day, Memorial Day and Fourth of July for the past 15 years. Not only do we not get time and a half or any other incentive (other than a free meal in the slop line) for working those holidays, we are also *mandated* to work them or get fired, since those holidays constitute our busiest times of the year at the casino.

It is what it is. You learn to work around it and schedule your family time before or after those godforsaken holidays, or else you find another place to work.

 

[Breogan]

It is not about what happened in the decades after it.

Unless you just ignore the decimation of the Paspahegh. Which the official narrative does.
But yeah they needed help "friendship" when they got there, and they got it, 10 years later it turned to appropriation and theft of land, enslavement, spread of smallpox, and beginnings of a genocide of a people.
Of course the official narrative celebrates this mythological "friendship".

And again before this gets too off topic, the point was not everyone celebrates it, or with a big home meal, some might just want to get crappy pizza that day. The reason given above was just one example why.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

This was clearly an unfortunate situation, and we are very upset by what has transpired in Elkhart, Indiana. While the choice as to whether a restaurant should be open or closed on a holiday is handled at the local level by our independent franchisees, we feel strongly that this situation could have been avoided. We respect an employee's decision not to work on a holiday if they so choose, which is why the vast majority of Pizza Huts in America are closed on Thanksgiving. The stores that are open to service their local communities are staffed by team members with the willingness to work on this day as determined by their own personal situations. We will monitor and evaluate this situation closely and regret what has occurred.

https://www.facebook.com/PizzaHut

 

[Victarion]

I don't see what Pizza Hut did was wrong. They are a business, they made a business decision that they communicated across the company. Since when is Thanksgiving a moral-based holiday anyway? Typical first-world employee entitlement.

That stated, I would not eat at Pizza Hut because their food is bad, but that's besides the point.

O Canada you cray cray.

 

[Boom]

I know money is tight for a lot of families, but does anyone really choose Pizza Hut for their Thanksgiving feast?

Big retail stores being open, I can understand. But is the demand for marginal pizza really that high on this particular holiday?

 

[Pink Ranger]

I haven't been to a Pizza Hut for a long time, but from what I remember, it's not exactly on the cheap end as far as pizza is concerned.

 

[Mike_D202]

Unless you just ignore the decimation of the Paspahegh. Which the official narrative does.
But yeah they needed help "friendship" when they got there, and they got it, 10 years later it turned to appropriation and theft of land, enslavement, spread of smallpox, and beginnings of a genocide of a people.
Of course the official narrative celebrates this mythological "friendship".

And again before this gets too off topic, the point was not everyone celebrates it, or with a big home meal, some might just want to get crappy pizza that day. The reason given above was just one example why.

lol funny you should mention all of that, I'm native american and in our city they set aside swamp land (that was also used as a landfill) for our reservation a few decades ago. They lived in shacks with one power line running down the entire dirt road, they ended up using the grants they started receiving to build a casino so we can self-sustain ourselves. We made a lot of money, the dirt road is now paved, adequate housing, our own hospital, and we franchised to 5 other cities. But I remember growing up and being picked on and spit on for being native american, they said we "get everything for free." Last time I checked I still have to work a job to pay rent and put food on the table. People act like this was something that happened centuries ago, when just 30 years ago they were living on dirt and getting spit on.

Anyways, I helped my mom cook tonight for Thanksgiving dinner. We look at it as family time where we all get together the few times out of the year when we're not all busy to spend time with one another. I don't look at it as anything more than that.

 

[Perfect Cell]

Yeah, Pizza Hut never struck me as "cheap" when it comes to quick and easy pizza places. Now Pizza Pizza, that's the cheap, greasy stuff we're talking about.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Yeah, Pizza Hut never struck me as "cheap" when it comes to quick and easy pizza places. Now Pizza Pizza, that's the cheap, greasy stuff we're talking about.

Even lower on the food chain: 2 4 1 Pizza.

What passes for pizza in Canada makes Pizza Hut look like Mario Batali.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Hungry Howies > Pizza Hut

What you know about that flavored crust and the 3 cheezer bread?! I love me some Hungry Howies! Cajun crust FTW!

 

[C. Lee]

Unless you just ignore the decimation of the Paspahegh. Which the official narrative does.
But yeah they needed help "friendship" when they got there, and they got it, 10 years later it turned to appropriation and theft of land, enslavement, spread of smallpox, and beginnings of a genocide of a people.
Of course the official narrative celebrates this mythological "friendship".

And again before this gets too off topic, the point was not everyone celebrates it, or with a big home meal, some might just want to get crappy pizza that day. The reason given above was just one example why.

And my point was.....there are 365 days in a year......people have plenty of days to ***** moan complain whine rant shout be angry hate etc...can people take at least one day to celebrate friendship family helping others and being thankful for what they have?

 

[Pink Ranger]

And my point was.....there are 365 days in a year......people have plenty of days to ***** moan complain whine rant shout be angry hate etc...can people take at least one day to celebrate friendship family helping others and being thankful for what they have?

Yes, and that day is called The Tony Awards.

 

[Breogan]

can people take at least one day to celebrate friendship family helping others and being thankful for what they have?

People can and do celebrate that every day too you know. And it doesn't mean this day you can't discuss what was going on then, before and after the massacre.

there are 365 days in a year......people have plenty of days to ***** moan complain whine rant shout be angry hate etc...

The only one doing the cursing, "*****", angry, etc. is you.

 

[Erzengel]

I know money is tight for a lot of families, but does anyone really choose Pizza Hut for their Thanksgiving feast?

Big retail stores being open, I can understand. But is the demand for marginal pizza really that high on this particular holiday?

Eating at Pizza Hut = you really have no other pizza place within a 20 mile radius of you.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Eating at Pizza Hut = you really have no other food source within a 20 mile radius of you.

Fixed.

 

[Victarion]

And my point was.....there are 365 days in a year......people have plenty of days to ***** moan complain whine rant shout be angry hate etc...can people take at least one day to celebrate friendship family helping others and being thankful for what they have?

To turn a phrase, "when there's no room left in Tumblr..."

On a more serious note, there's no reason to linger over the past. It's not changing. Accept that it happened and go on with your life. The takeaway is: don't do it again.

 

[Erzengel]

Unless you just ignore the decimation of the Paspahegh. Which the official narrative does.
But yeah they needed help "friendship" when they got there, and they got it, 10 years later it turned to appropriation and theft of land, enslavement, spread of smallpox, and beginnings of a genocide of a people.
Of course the official narrative celebrates this mythological "friendship".

And again before this gets too off topic, the point was not everyone celebrates it, or with a big home meal, some might just want to get crappy pizza that day. The reason given above was just one example why.