THIS!
I just don't agree with this demand that all businesses stay closed on Thanksgiving. There is NOTHING preventing you from seeing your families! Period! The problem is, you're prevented from seeing your family the exact day you want. When Thanksgiving happens is completely arbitrary! It doesn't matter! Celebrate a few days before or after! If all it's about is spending time with your family, why is that such a big deal?! Everyone seems to ignore what Thanksgiving is actually celebrating, and they decide to pretend it's about "being grateful and family." Fine! You can do that! But then why not take it a step further and pretend it's on a weekend, when it's more convenient for your whole family to congregate!
Times change, things change! Businesses have the right to stay open. They have the right to provide whatever service they provide for the legitimate demand that is there. And they have every right to ask people to work. They're asking for your time, in exchange for money. Working on Thanksgiving does not change your ability to see your family. Tradition has nothing to do with when you celebrate. If what you're upset about here is truly about not being able to be with family, then when you celebrate is of zero importance. Because you can see your family WHENEVER!
The logical thing to do is to make scheduling voluntary. You schedule volunteer workers first, seasonal help second, and then anyone else if need be. It's illogical to expect business to stay closed, however it's illogical to not allow people to request time off. But since that's how it is currently, I see this as nothing more as someone not getting what they wanted, so instead they try to drag everyone through the mud with them with a stupid walk out, so that they don't get fired for not showing up. And since the demand is, "close your doors for business" no progress get's made here, because that's not a reasonable request.
Actually tradition has everything to do with when you celebrate, that is why it is called tradition.
If you change it every year it is no longer tradition, it's just a dinner that you manage to put together between everyone's schedules.
But you know what, with the way companies are getting to be these days it's harder to fit a night into everyone's schedule.
Which is why there is supposed to be at least one common day off but no, we can't even have that anymore.
You say times change like somehow that is always a good thing.
There are times when we destroy things without realizing just how much we are damaging ourselves in the process.
Nobody said that businesses shouldn't have the right to stay open.
What they should do is think for a minute about what that means to the people they employ and the world they are creating by doing it.
Sometimes we need to slow the hell down and stop.
Sure we should be thankful anytime, spend time with our families anytime, have dinner anytime, and I understand people who just don't 'get' Thanksgiving but you know what there is value in a holiday that doesn't have gift giving attached, that only has caring, being together and giving thanks as its base.
The problem is companies can't make big bucks off of this so they have been working to kill off Thanksgiving for quite a while.
Eventually it will be gone and no one will care.
The times change and sometimes it sucks.
