Have you ever thought about when Thanksgiving went from this?
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To this?
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Now we know that in America, Thanksgiving is coming up. Traditional Thanksgiving was about giving thanks to God for His multiple blessings, great home-cooked meals, football, laughter, and getting food coma after the meal.
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Since my laptop has given up the ghost, I can only see so much news in a day because most of the time I am focusing on personal development.
Tonight I log on to Facebook and I see the picture badge showcasing this statement (click on the picture to go to their Facebook page):
I share the page on my Timeline. Then I started to think.
While I haven’t been brave enough to endure shopping on Thanksgiving, I honestly never thought about how the people who work on Thanksgiving.
While I am a capitalist and believe in its tenets, I believe that businesses need to stay closed on Thanksgiving or Christmas (similar to the old Blue Laws). The winter holidays need two focus points: God and family (a subject near and dear to my mother). If one doesn’t have family, at least allow the person to enjoy their day off . The idea that corporations would do wise to grasp is people over profit than vice versa.
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Now CEOs may say, “Wait, there is no way we are going to miss out on the biggest money-making week of the year?”
My response: “You hire the best advisors in the business and figure out a way to make profits and still build morale plus good will.”
Come to think about Black Friday doesn’t take companies out of the black and could this also be a marketing ploy?
I say to the corporations, “Treat your employees like family and you will have a strong and loyal workforce. Treat them like slaves and they will despise you. Besides, even Scrooge learned to listen, did not he not?
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What are your thoughts on having people work on holidays?
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