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Whole Foods employees striking over requirements to work Thanksgiving

Gipper said:
There's no question what liberals will support here. There is no such thing as a pro-business liberal. They'll say they are, but they're full of it.
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I dunno - if some liberal diva decides she needs some Spicy Wine Mustard for her turkey sandwich later tomorrow, those damn peons better open up and let her in or there's gonna be hell to pay.
 
CanadaJohn said:
I dunno - if some liberal diva decides she needs some Spicy Wine Mustard for her turkey sandwich later tomorrow, those damn peons better open up and let her in or there's gonna be hell to pay.
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5 bucks if you can get her to come on here and admit it.
 
CanadaJohn said:
This should be quite a dilemma for snobby liberals - do they support the working poor, after all, they claim to be the only ones on their side, or do they support entitlement to their overpriced lifestyle needs?
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It was understood that I was "on call," and I had a few Thanksgivings when my family ate, while my dinner got cold and the gravy congealed! You have to handle the emergencies that come up, and all of my department knew it was a possibility. I guess that the old saying "coincidences are the universe's way of being ornery" is true! :mrgreen:
 
Just curious if some of the same people who hate on Thanksgiving as being a holiday of "genocide" are also on the bandwagon of hate for people being "forced" to work.
 
Gipper said:
I hope many of them suffer a stroke and drive to a hospital where the doors are closed and nobody's there.
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I liked you better when you were talking about boobs.
 
Gipper said:
Whole Foods Employees Strike Against Working on Thanksgiving



Don't wanna work holidays? Don't work retail or service.

F'n wage-scrubs.
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As a person who has been involved in the food service industry in some shape or form from the time I was 11, what is that, 28 years, I have little sympathy for people who complain about working holidays.

You know what you're in for when you accept the position.

Don't like it?

Quit.

John Mackey should put them all out on their ass... I'm sure he's feeling Henry Ford's pain right about now...
 
clownboy said:
Not to mention they get time and a half working holidays. It's a shift a lot of folks in retail volunteer for, or used to when I worked retail.
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Not everyone gets time and a half. I have worked on national holidays at Trader Joe's and they do not give time and a half.
 
Nobody gets a holiday off without being able to pass a test describing what the significance of the holiday is.

That would upset Deivid Rojas.
 
polgara said:
It was understood that I was "on call," and I had a few Thanksgivings when my family ate, while my dinner got cold and the gravy congealed! You have to handle the emergencies that come up, and all of my department knew it was a possibility. I guess that the old saying "coincidences are the universe's way of being ornery" is true! :mrgreen:
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Happy Thanksgiving Lady P.

It may sound strange, but when I was growing up, the only time my parents and brothers all had dinner together was on Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. My mother, God rest her soul, got into the habit of making multiple meals at multiple times to meet the feeding schedules/frenzies of her various boys. It's probably why I think of her in the kitchen so often when I look back.
 
CanadaJohn said:
Happy Thanksgiving Lady P.

It may sound strange, but when I was growing up, the only time my parents and brothers all had dinner together was on Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. My mother, God rest her soul, got into the habit of making multiple meals at multiple times to meet the feeding schedules/frenzies of her various boys. It's probably why I think of her in the kitchen so often when I look back.
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That doesn't sound strange CJ, especially during the teenage years. When each kid is in a different activity whether it be band, sports, or working a part-time job, it's darn near impossible for the entire family to sit down for an evening meal together. My daughter is a nurse. She either gets Thanksgiving or Christmas off. Never both. Whatever day she is required to work, the family simply postpones our celebration till the following day so we can all be together.
 
vesper said:
That doesn't sound strange CJ, especially during the teenage years. When each kid is in a different activity whether it be band, sports, or working a part-time job, it's darn near impossible for the entire family to sit down for an evening meal together. My daughter is a nurse. She either gets Thanksgiving or Christmas off. Never both. Whatever day she is required to work, the family simply postpones our celebration till the following day so we can all be together.
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The strange part was that my mom used to cook or prepare 4 or 5 different meals each day, at different times, to meet the schedules and the tastes of her various boys/men. She loved cooking and being the mom and the homemaker. I can't imagine there are too many like her in today's much more complex world.
 
Ray410 said:
Nobody gets a holiday off without being able to pass a test describing what the significance of the holiday is.

That would upset Deivid Rojas.
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So all the Conservatives have to work Labor Day then? :shock:
 
CanadaJohn said:
I dunno - if some liberal diva decides she needs some Spicy Wine Mustard for her turkey sandwich later tomorrow, those damn peons better open up and let her in or there's gonna be hell to pay.
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Yeah, Liberals are all rich. Like these "f'n wage-scrubs" that work at Whole Foods. I bet some of them even get paid minimum wage. It's Marxism I tell ya!
 
rocket88 said:
Yeah, Liberals are all rich. Like these "f'n wage-scrubs" that work at Whole Foods. I bet some of them even get paid minimum wage. It's Marxism I tell ya!
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You didn't catch me saying all liberals are rich - those are your words. But the ones who are rich are often the snotty ones like Bloomburg or any number of Hollywood types who can't wait to look down on the masses and put them in their place.

And you didn't catch me saying the workers at Whole Foods are "f'n wage scrubs" - those are your words. I honor all work but I expect people to honor their work commitment, that being to work the hours they agreed to when hired, the hours assigned, and for the wages they agreed to when hired or any such additional monies they have been granted through hard work or promotion.

Entitlement is not big in my vocabulary, whether it's rich entitlement or poor entitlement. You get what you deserve and you deserve what you get unless you're willing to improve yourself and your value to someone who wants to buy your services.
 
Deuce said:
They can also go on strike, Mr. So-Called Libertarian.
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I don't believe this store or Whole Foods in general is unionized, so if you promote their right to strike do you also promote the right of Whole Foods or this store in particular to fire them en masse if they don't show up to work at their assigned time?
 
SMTA said:
Then they can vote with their feet.
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Which is a sentiment I have often expressed about right libertarians who bitch, complain, moan, carp and whine about not having any damn social contract and how they never voted for the laws they are suppose to obey like everybody else. Yes indeed SMTA - exercise your ultimate choice and vote with your feet. And apply that advice across the board.
 
Why don't we have everything open and function like a regular day if people are willing to give up their values for profits?
 
rabbitcaebannog said:
Why don't we have everything open and function like a regular day if people are willing to give up their values for profits?
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Who is giving up values for profit? If the consumer did not want to go to a store on a Thanksgiving they wouldn't. If enough people did not shop on the holiday, the store would not be open.

It is also interesting raising the "value" stance. Some think its manditory or ok for police/fire/medical to work on a holiday. Yet, it is sinister for a retail or food store to be open.
 
CanadaJohn said:
I don't believe this store or Whole Foods in general is unionized, so if you promote their right to strike do you also promote the right of Whole Foods or this store in particular to fire them en masse if they don't show up to work at their assigned time?
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Interesting question! :thumbs:
 
CanadaJohn said:
I don't believe this store or Whole Foods in general is unionized, so if you promote their right to strike do you also promote the right of Whole Foods or this store in particular to fire them en masse if they don't show up to work at their assigned time?
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If Whole Foods feels that is in their best economic interests, they can do so. What, I thought you believed in freedom.

Fortunately, Whole Foods isn't going to do that because they have more business sense than you do.
 
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