Yeah?
Well, right now, BJs does not open on thanksgiving and Christmas, but there is talk that they might next year, because other companies do, and BJs wants a piece of that pie. What am I to do when that happens? Pick up and change careers? Again? Not too many "safe" career choices left, at least not without taking a gamble on more college...a 30-70k gamble. I have a wife who also works retail, and two kids. What do you people who retail to do? Would you have us all seek alternative employment in fields that are more family friendly? And what fields are those? I make 55k a year, where am I gonna get that pay while starting all over..again?
It seems to me that many of you are debating this issue from a cometely ignorant and self centered possition. What, am I a loser and a degenerate and a societal failure because I work retail, deserving of no family life, nor holidays? I worked my way from the bottom to get where I'm at, after totally rebooting and switching careers...twice. I'd like to see any of you try that and meet with the same success I have.
Truth is, so long as it doesn't affect you, you don't give a ****. Except that it IS going to affect you some day, you're just too short sighted to see it, and by the time you do, it'll be way past too late to do anything about it.
I say, if the Walton's want to be open on thanksgiving and Christmas, they should have to work those days as well, right along with their employees. If congress thinks it's fine, then it should be fine for them, too. We vote for people who run often on the premise of family values, but what family values can they possibly have when not even thanksgiving or Christmas is sacred?