A Thanksgiving messeage from Wes

Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you all have the day off, and I hope your holiday extends into tomorrow as well. People work too hard for too little these days. We have very few holidays. When you don't have the next day off, Thanksgiving is hardly a holiday. It's a pain in the ass.


Unless they're in retail, shame on any employer who doesn't give their employees off Black Friday. And even if they're in retail, SHAME on those employers who are open on Thanksgiving itself.


An employer who works their employees on the holiday is a poor corporate citizen, placing their business interests so far above the individual needs of their workers so as steal something important from them. There should be enormous social pressure on businesses not to work their employees on holidays and to extend the holiday into the weekend when the holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday. We can create that kind of social pressure by refusing to shop on the Holiday itself and calling most other employers for what they are when they don't give their employees that extra day off: greedy uncaring thieves.


Have I shopped on Thanksgiving? I'm guilty. But Christmas and New Years are fast approaching. With only a minimal amount of planning, we can make sure our dollars don't contribute to some poor Wawa employee's ruined holiday.