If the sale starts Friday November 20 why not let the employees have Thanksgiving off and come in at 5 am to get bopis ready. Just a thought.
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@Leanonme99
"Anony Mouse, I find it interesting that the same people who will look at associates with pity and say, aw you have to work today? Bless your heart! are in the store shopping."
Exactly! Except folks would say that to us and the laugh like they won a prize, then brag that they were off for a week or more. These were usually entitled Karens who, even though they were on extensive, lucrative, paid vacations, were always "in a hurry" and felt they shouldn't have to wait in line with other Karens!
Anony Mouse, I find it interesting that the same people who will look at associates with pity and say, aw you have to work today? Bless your heart! are in the store shopping.
TV tells people that they MUST go out and shop, otherwise they won't have a warm-fuzzy, happy time because they don't have manufactured products shoved under a garish, tacky, badly-dectorated mutilated plant crammed into a corner of their pumpkin spice latte-scented, everything is great and twee, capitalism makes it all great, love-in den of holier-than-thou capitalist exclusive-ism.
THAT is why these stores HAVE to be open. And what's more, if stores continue to advertise that way and whip the common folk into a frenzy, convincing them that the only way they can achieve holiday nirvana is by rushing in as soon as possible during a limited set of hours– well, that's just INVITING people in to trash the place! Give them permission to act like uncivilized baboons and they will respond with abundant ardor.
'Tis the season for the entitled!
The company could do that. They could let everyone have this day paid. There is zero need to have curbside pickup on Thanksgiving evening. Customers cant be that desperate for some some cheap merchandise. After all the butt busting everyone has done, working with limited staff, trying to do a million things at once, this is what we get? I don't want a friggin spread from some local takeout joint for appeasement. I'd rather be at home eating my own food, enjoying the time with the people I care about. Honestly, maybe we ought to have a company wide sick-out that day. What are they going to do, fire everyone? it might send a message that we're not robots, we are people, and even at time and a half it's not always worth. Sometimes it's not about money. It's about respect.
Greed.