Target employee whines about working on Thanksgiving

Anyone who thinks the Target employee is out of line and then complains about their own workplace should shut the hell up.

I say tighten blue laws and make stores close for certain federal holidays. Some states already force businesses to close or restrict hours, including North Dakota, where retail stores can't open until noon on Sunday.

 

My experience is that most of the complaining about working on holidays comes from people who rarely, if ever, have to. They think if they complain about how unfair it is, then they're sufficiently sympathetic to their peers or co-workers who do the heavy lifting on such days.

 

I was just making fun, but there's a huge difference between complaining about your job, and circulating a petition against a job requirement that is obvious before you sign up. This is the equivalent of a bartender formally complaining about the late nights or a boxer upset that he gets punched.

 

A job has never existed that workers didn't complain about. I'm sure Playboy photographers eventually get tired of all the college girls with their squeaky voices. The difference is this guy felt like the whole world needed to hear his complaint and help him mount a campaign against his oppressor.

I bet we would find a lot of ninth-place ribbons in his bedroom.

 

His job is getting in the way of his protesting career.

 

Blue laws are an incomprehensible anachronism that drain the economy and ensure that people can't get what they need when they have the time to go get it.

 

There is nothing more American than a business finding a niche - in this case it's holiday shoppers - and profiting off of serving it.

 

I know we all should but I can't put into words how sick I am of hearing that shit.

Every time I say, "oh work sucked today," to a friend of mine, he says "at least we have jobs."

Also there is a simple way around being "called in" to work as someone put it.

 

In other words, if I don't want to work on a given day, I'll fuck my co-workers who take their jobs seriously.

 

At most at-will jobs today, you can do that about twice.

 

I'm also for mandatory 30 days paid vacation per year, plus sick time on top of that.