Just finished up a big corporate visit in our store this week and our DVP was in from CA and told us that we would be open on Thanksgiving this year. Anybody else hearing anything about going back to Thanksgiving hours?
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Question for the last the responder - Since your store is a pilot store for different/better shopping hours, do you know when that could happen everywhere else?
Is this true for all states? In MA we never opened on Thanksgiving. We were allowed to open at 12:01 am black Fri because of the state laws. My store is now a pilot store for the 11a-8pm closing and 6pm on Sundays which started this week.
Stand up for yourself and just say "NO" if you don't want to work Thanksgiving. We didn't have a problem staffing our store on Thanksgiving. Employees wanted the time and a half. It's also amazing how many people actually go shopping on Thanksgiving.
The division team works all through the weekend, usually visiting multiple locations. Grow up… just because YOU personally dont see them, does t mean they are not working
Invite your loved ones over for an early Thanksgiving meal so you can see them before the start of your shift. You don't want to host Thanksgiving dinner (which is now really Thanksgiving lunch) , but you know that your store won't hire enough people for the holiday season and you will be working almost every weekend until Christmas. You want to spend at least one day with family and friends during the season when you aren't exhausted from working extended holiday hours, picking stuff off the floor, and taking care of obnoxious customers.
On the brighter side, someone from the corporate or divisional team will stop by your store on Thanksgiving after they have had their time with loved ones later in the evening for five minutes to handout candy canes and give you a list of things that they want changed before Black Friday, all the while wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving.
hawk down that turkey at 3-4pm and race over to macys to open up at 5pm!
😂 99% of the people on here work retail. FYI, fulfillment and distribution work EVERY holiday. I haven’t had Thanksgiving with my my family in 5 years. Gone are the days of life/work balance. Macy’s, with their fake, “culture, diversity, we care bull”, will use you up and sp-t you out.
Here we go again working on Thanksgiving day 🦃 , what the heck is this company thinking.
Don't expect that the next Pulse Survey is going to be very well received if we have to work on Thanksgiving. I thought the company learned its lesson. Opening on Thanksgiving simply spreads out the sales from Black Friday and Saturday over a three day period. When we were open on Thanksgiving, we never did more business in total, just the same volume over three days instead of two days.
What a sad state of affairs. This is what comes from having regional leaders who are so old that they no longer have kids at home to celebrate the holiday with. Macy's is their life and they don't care about how it impacts employees.
If you work Thanksgiving day, you’ll be scheduled a 12pm-10pm shift for Black Friday
In one of our morning rally one of our executives told us that this year we are going to have less seasonal employees working. What we have right now is enough for the holidays. So I guess everyone in our store is going to work on Thanksgiving day and Black Friday too. Our store is short staff and there's plenty of call outs on the weekends.
It's true, it will be "voluntary" for colleagues and mandatory for managers. This means that you will have to sign-up for the shifts, but in reality, the managers are expected to get enough people to work and there will be pressure to fill the shifts until a store has the needed people.
This gives the company the appearance of caring and they can say that only people who want to work on Thanksgiving will be doing so, but in reality, we will all be forced to work when we would rather be without families.
Executives are already aware of the planned working on Thanksgiving, see if they will give you a straight answer or tell you that we won't be open and see what happens.
So Macy's is bringing back the tradition of opening on Thanksgiving day. I'm guessing probably opening from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. because fulfillment team comes in at 8 a.m to 5 p.m. and Black Friday probably opening at 5 a.m.
Nope. I'm not working Thanksgiving. I got pushed into doing that 3 years in a row pre-covid. If covid taught me anything, it is that life is short and there is so much more to life than Macy's
Bunch of BS
@liu+1nRonNCN, you can't take a flex holiday on Thanksgiving. That's a fixed holiday whether your working or not. Just say no when asked to work, if this rumor is true.
Please say it’s not true that would be terrible to make people work on Thanksgiving Day again. Keep it so everyone can have the day off. Is it worth it Macys to make people come in again?
This time Macy's needs to hire alot of seasonal employees to work on Thanksgiving day and Black Friday just in case there's alot of call outs.
Just say "no". If enough staff refuses to work on a national holiday, then salaried managers will have to man the registers for the entire day. Opening the store on Thanksgiving will be "one-and-done" after that. Just say "no". Yeah, the time and a half is nice, but at what cost to your personal life- you know, those people that you live with, and love and want to spend time with. No one gets to the Pearly Gates wishing they could have worked one more day at Macys.
It was just a matter of time, this company is always full of surprises. The last time Macy's open on Thanksgiving day was on November 2019 after the pandemic Macy's and other retailers stop opening on Thanksgiving day. If Macy's decide to open on Thanksgiving day other retailers will follow the same path too.
I can't imagine we're going back to that.
Let me make sure I have a flexible work holiday left
Disgusting if this is true! They already work us to death, the least they could do is give us a day with our family to be thankful we're not at work, but no why would they wanna do that!