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Family values?

Thorgasm

Thorgasm

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Would you frequent businesses that are non-essential services on family days like Thanksgiving and Christmas if they are open?
 
If I want too, or have a need too yeah.
 
Lets see.. Christmas is often spent in a hotel room visiting and sharing the holidays my mentally retarded brother, so that is a yes there, plus we go out to eat Christmas day.

Thanksgiving for the last 10 years or so has been at a nice restaurant on the bay that has a fantastic buffet spread and free mimosas or champagne, so again a yes.

I have also worked a few holidays myself in the past, and despite this was still able to spend time with my family and share the holiday with them.
 
Thorgasm said:
Do you think that corporate profits are more important than family values?
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Define family values, and and how is working on a holiday an anti-thesis to family values?
 
Thorgasm said:
Do you think that corporate profits are more important than family values?
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Now why did you ask Your Star that question? Was there a conversation in your head that we missed?

You didnt even ask where or what service that we would want or need on those holidays. I mean dessert is non essential. Maybe a parent traditionally likes to take their kids out for a treat. What does that have to do with ****ing corporations?
 
Thorgasm said:
Do you think that corporate profits are more important than family values?
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I value double time, so stores open on holidays are promoting my set of values, even if I am not the one getting the double time.

Working in a tool and die shop, I once worked Thanksgiving and the day after, both 12 hours. Holidays are double time, going over 40 hours a week or 8 hours in a day was time and a half, so part of thanksgiving and all of the day after where triple time. I value 45 $ an hour.
 
Thorgasm said:
Would you frequent businesses that are non-essential services on family days like Thanksgiving and Christmas if they are open?
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No, just because I think it's stupid.
 
Your Star said:
Define family values, and and how is working on a holiday an anti-thesis to family values?
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Corporations are telling their employees that their profits are more important than their families. People don't need Starbucks.
 
Thorgasm said:
Would you frequent businesses that are non-essential services on family days like Thanksgiving and Christmas if they are open?
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No. I wouldn't go to the store over the Thanksgiving weekend for a million dollars. Has nothing to do with family values, though. I don't like crowds...standing in line...parking in Timbuktoo...or watching people greedily tossing bins and racks like they're givin' stuff away until too many stores look like pig pens.
 
Thorgasm said:
Do you think that corporate profits are more important than family values?
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This seems to be the unstated point of the OP.

An either/or regarding corporate profits vs. family values is not a valid question as they are not related. Family values do not necessarily preclude profit, and one is not necessarily favored over the other.
 
Redress said:
I value double time, so stores open on holidays are promoting my set of values, even if I am not the one getting the double time.

Working in a tool and die shop, I once worked Thanksgiving and the day after, both 12 hours. Holidays are double time, going over 40 hours a week or 8 hours in a day was time and a half, so part of thanksgiving and all of the day after where triple time. I value 45 $ an hour.
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Starbucks doesn't pay double time.
 
I don't like stores that are open on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other holidays. I feel sorry for the employees that are forced to work on those days. I won't go so far as to boycott them but I will chose their competitors over them for that reason.
 
I spent one Thanksgiving in a local Chinese restaurant with my grandmother and uncle. Given the circumstance at the times, it was the best we could do. She doesn't like to travel far, cannot host, and doesn't want spend all day cooking. I didn't care. I was just in it to spend time with my grandmother and it made her happy.

I also waited tables a few times at a locally owned restaurant for a buffet style Thanksgiving feast. I didn't mind and made good money that day.

I'd rather spend it with family over a nice home cooked meal, but it doesn't always work out that way. When it doesn't, I don't consider it as a corporate profit vs family values dichotomy.
 
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I just don't like the trend I am seeing these days. Every year places are opening earlier on black Friday. Now it has extended to 10 PM Thanksgiving night. In the near future I can see these places being open all day on Thanksgiving. It saddens me. A lot of people who work at these places are told if they don't work, they are fired. How easy is it for people to find a babysitter on Thanksgiving?
 
Thorgasm said:
Would you frequent businesses that are non-essential services on family days like Thanksgiving and Christmas if they are open?
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I try not to, if I can reasonably avoid it. I prefer not to be a causal agent in them having to work on a day that should be for family.

I also don't patronize businesses on Sunday unless its an actual emergency, but that's a religious thing.
 
Thorgasm said:
I just don't like the trend I am seeing these days. Every year places are opening earlier on black Friday. Now it has extended to 10 PM Thanksgiving night. In the near future I can see these places being open all day on Thanksgiving. It saddens me. A lot of people who work at these places are told if they don't work, they are fired. How easy is it for people to find a babysitter on Thanksgiving?
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Yeah, one of my BILs is in retail, poor bugger has to go into work at 11pm thurs nite and work 22 hours. He said he might have to skip the family Tday dinner in favor of sleep. Sucks.
 
Goshin said:
Yeah, one of my BILs is in retail, poor bugger has to go into work at 11pm thurs nite and work 22 hours. He said he might have to skip the family Tday dinner in favor of sleep. Sucks.
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He needs a union.
 
Thorgasm said:
Would you frequent businesses that are non-essential services on family days like Thanksgiving and Christmas if they are open?
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If I had some reason to, sure. Not everyone celebrates Thanksgiving and Christmas, and those that do don't always celebrate it the same way or on the day of the actual holiday.
 
Thorgasm said:
Corporations are telling their employees that their profits are more important than their families. People don't need Starbucks.
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But if your only connection with family is on the holidays then I would suspect you're not really a family person to begin with.
 
Your Star said:
But if your only connection with family is on the holidays then I would suspect you're not really a family person to begin with.
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Extended families travel so they can get together. Distance doesn't negate whether someone is a family person or not.
 
Thunder said:
Only Jews are required to not shop on holidays.
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Thanksgiving is a Jewish holiday?

Don't tell my sausage stuffing. :lol:
 
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