First off, let me salute everyone who was forced to work today instead of having the day off as was the original intent of the holiday.
I myself no longer work any of the major holidays, though being in the state military means I could end up called to active duty and have to work them with no pay. I'm in Georgia State Defense Force, we aren't paid.
In the past, I worked at Western Auto and the only 2 holidays we closed for were Christmas Day and Thanksgiving Day. Needless to say, with the bottom feeder types that company catered to, we worked late the nights before both holidays every year.
Since then I've moved on to independents with a franchise in between. At the franchise, before every single holiday the phone would ring off the hook with SC's wanting to know if we were open on the holiday. Yes, including Christmas Day! And so many of them would huff and puff indignantly when I said "no, we don't work holidays".
There was one 4 July holiday a long time ago when I was working for Meineke and I went in on that holiday for a couple of hours to straighten out a computer issue. From the time I walked in to the time I left, the phones rang non-stop. I thought to myself, 'your mufflers can wait, assholes! we're taking the day off to celebrate our Nation's birthday!'
I do my best to do all my shopping before a holiday. I'd much rather see more businesses closed for the holidays, especially Labor Day, and refuse to spend my money on those days the best I can. It's a day of rest for the "laborers" like you and me and I respect that.
Hang in there folks!
I myself no longer work any of the major holidays, though being in the state military means I could end up called to active duty and have to work them with no pay. I'm in Georgia State Defense Force, we aren't paid.
In the past, I worked at Western Auto and the only 2 holidays we closed for were Christmas Day and Thanksgiving Day. Needless to say, with the bottom feeder types that company catered to, we worked late the nights before both holidays every year.
Since then I've moved on to independents with a franchise in between. At the franchise, before every single holiday the phone would ring off the hook with SC's wanting to know if we were open on the holiday. Yes, including Christmas Day! And so many of them would huff and puff indignantly when I said "no, we don't work holidays".
There was one 4 July holiday a long time ago when I was working for Meineke and I went in on that holiday for a couple of hours to straighten out a computer issue. From the time I walked in to the time I left, the phones rang non-stop. I thought to myself, 'your mufflers can wait, assholes! we're taking the day off to celebrate our Nation's birthday!'
I do my best to do all my shopping before a holiday. I'd much rather see more businesses closed for the holidays, especially Labor Day, and refuse to spend my money on those days the best I can. It's a day of rest for the "laborers" like you and me and I respect that.
Hang in there folks!
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