Tuesday, November 24th, 2009...7:32 pm
Gobble Gobble Goo And Gobble Gobble Gickel
Last year, exactly a week before Thanksgiving, I found a memo in my work cubby. That’s right, cubby. We don’t have the big, scary, timewasting internets at work, so we get memos from corporate by fax and they are stuck in our cubbies.
Anyway, the cubbymail to everyone that day included a survey. It said that “a number” of customers had called the toll-free line to complain about the fact that we would be closed on Thanksgiving. It said that they were considering the idea of TDay store hours for the first time in company history. Not to worry, it said, no one would be forced to work. Volunteers only. No holiday pay, it said, but they would be giving overtime if it pushed you over 40. Guess what? Once you work for something, it’s no longer being given to you.
The bottom of the form was a box where they encouraged comments/ideas be written and faxed back. I did:
“The kind of customers that would complain about the store being closed so that we can have family time are the ones I won’t be giving mine up to serve. In case of any problems, will the corporate office be open to help?”
The next day, more cubbymail saying they had decided that we would NOT be open on Thanksgiving, after all.
Turkey Lurkey Doo and Turkey Lurkey Dap
14 Comments
November 24th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
way to stick it to the man! seriously though, anyone who bitches about that deserves to be shot. do your shopping before hand, lazy ass. no one wants to work on thanksgiving and if you had too, it should totally be triple pay.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Good for you! There are plenty of 7-11s out there with the holiday displays for last minute cooking disasters. God! If people had the time to complain, they had the time to get off their asses and get their shopping done in advance like normal civilized folk!
November 25th, 2009 at 2:13 am
Please know that this post got a resounding “OH SNAP!” all the way down in Atlanta.
Fuck those people. Any a-hole who doesn’t plan ahead in anticipation of holiday store closures can eat a dick.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Just be happy that your employer isn’t one of those who is closed on TG, but opens at three A.M. so the fools can fight over overpriced junk.
What a way to get into the holiday spirit.
If I was the NAACP, I think I might sue to make them call it something besides Black Friday
November 25th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I loved your response to them, very to the point!
November 25th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Ivan, why does the NAACP need to waste time/money fighting a name that happens to have “black” in it? In 1966, the Philadelphia Police Department started using the name “Black Friday,” to mean the Friday following Thanksgiving Day. “Black Friday” officially opens the Christmas shopping season in center city, and it usually brings massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores are mobbed from opening to closing.
TCG-good for you for sticking up for yourself! My hubby is also in the grocery biz, and of course, he always has to work Thanksgiving. If you can’t get your arse in gear and get what you need before Thanksgiving, then oh well, I guess you’re SOL. Grr.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I couldn’t agree more. Anyone who complains about anything being closed on Thanksgiving is a ginormous asshat.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Probably the most on-point response you could give. Sums up the sentiments of service workers worldwide in two sweet sentences. Nice job. Way to stick it to Whitey!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Unfortunately, another difference between your customers and mine.
Mine say, “That’s so sweet that you’re closed tomorrow! If I really need something, I’ll go to Kroger. Enjoy your holiday!”
Yours say, “YOU SHOULD BE THERE FOR ME TO HARASS EVERY SINGLE DAY!”
You have my condolences
November 26th, 2009 at 7:37 am
I uh… stocked up at the ABC store yesterday… I’m good….
November 27th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
that a girl. gosh i miss you.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:42 am
All the liquor stores in NYC are closed on New Year’s Day. Which I think is a more serious problem.
November 30th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
F*ck – I almost had to starve this Thursday – Publix was not open.
Thank god I had that can of tuna stored away from last year.
And yes – I ran out of liquor also – bloody american holidays man – at least now I know whose damn fault it is
December 3rd, 2009 at 5:03 pm
I wish Turkey only cost a nickle.
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