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Costco: Our employees ‘deserve’ Thanksgiving off

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drebo said:
What they don't tell you is that Costco employees WILL be working Thursday night to prepare.

Don't believe me? Ask someone who works at one.
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Ah, so you can eat with your family, but the second you put that fork down, get your ass to work, BITCH. You're working from 8pm to 6am, so eat fast and eat hardy cause you'll need it.
 
moonbogg said:
That's a load of BS. Its a PR campaign and "nothing more complicated than that". Everything a corporation does is for profit. Making people think that Costco holds the moral high ground is likely to bring in more business and they will make up the loss from closing on thanksgiving.
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So? It's still a win-win situation for both Costco and their employees.

If you keep your employees happy, you get increased productivity and less turnaround. Customers get a better shopping experience. Which means more money in the bank at the end of the day.
 
Kadarin said:
This is the time where I mention that the company I work for gives us the entire week of Thanksgiving off, with pay.
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don't you have, like, work to do?

of course, it obviously depends on the industry/position... for all the people who scream bloody murder about the horror of people having to work on Thanksgiving, I'd love to see their reaction if Facebook or Netflix went offline like and stayed down all day because "sorry bro, it's Thanksgiving. All the techs are off today to eat dinner with their families."
 
mmntech said:
So? It's still a win-win situation for both Costco and their employees.

If you keep your employees happy, you get increased productivity and less turnaround. Customers get a better shopping experience. Which means more money in the bank at the end of the day.
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Stop it with all that making sense stuff. Corporations are out to paint their M3s with the blood of the poor. Don't fight it, just accept it.
 
moonbogg said:
Making people think that Costco holds the moral high ground is likely to bring in more business and they will make up the loss from closing on thanksgiving.
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I dunno about that. Costco has a reputation for being a great employer, but I honestly don't think that substantially results in more or less business. Walmart has a reputation for being a terrible employer, and I doubt they feel the impact of that reputation one iota, especially around the Holidays. Regardless, it's still nice for the employees to have the day off.
 
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Vdubchaos said:
Funny, so many of you blame the companies.

I blame the people. If idiots were out there exercising their consumerism.......employees wouldn't be forced to work.....

Black Friday and other "consumerism" created crap are the best days to stay as far away from stores as possible.

Most of the "deals" are worthless anyways, within a month or 2 you can obtain better deals anyways.

And my christmas shopping is done by black friday anyways.....
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Its a bit of both, consumers, social media, competition because someone else is open earlier than you and a poor labor market. I feel Consumers and Companies are both to blame.
I say we all shame businesses and people who are open or shop on Thanksgiving.
 
Only in today's society can the masses think that such a gesture is anything other than genuinely caring for their employees and their family.

Nope, it's gotta be some kind of P.R. scheme or additional money making tactic and not just a genuine business that has decided not to appease its share holders with disgusting profits on the backs of their minimum wage, part-time employed staffs with no benefits other than those paid for by the hard working American taxpayer. Nope.

Man some of you guys sure are fucking jaded in life anymore.
 
MarkXIX said:
Only in today's society can the masses think that such a gesture is anything other than genuinely caring for their employees and their family.

Nope, it's gotta be some kind of P.R. scheme or additional money making tactic and not just a genuine business that has decided not to appease its share holders with disgusting profits on the backs of their minimum wage, part-time employed staffs with no benefits other than those paid for by the hard working American taxpayer. Nope.

Man some of you guys sure are fucking jaded in life anymore.
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Yep, whenever I do something out of the goodness of my heart, I have a spokesman make a press release about it.
 
lol who the fuck lines up and shops bnm now for black friday, so much easier to just order it online
 
arkcom said:
Yep, whenever I do something out of the goodness of my heart, I have a spokesman make a press release about it.
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Do the things you do out of the goodness of your heart have a direct impact on the shopping habits of millions of people?
 
loki8481 said:
good for them... if I was an employee, though, I'd probably rather have the extra hours/OT.
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they might.

my wife works for Vestas making the blades for the windmills. Vestas rule is if you are scheduled to work a holiday that they are closed you still get paid and you get paid time and a half.

so i get my wife this thanksgiving and christmas home making me pie while still getting paid. 😎
 
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I can understand wanting to meet customer demands,.. but, wtf, take the holiday off.

Also, online has you beat, retail,.. give it up already.
 
OutHouse said:
they might.

my wife works for Vestas making the blades for the windmills. Vestas rule is if you are scheduled to work a holiday that they are closed you still get paid and you get paid time and a half.
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that's kind of a kick in the nuts for people who don't happen to be scheduled that day, though, no?
 
Costco generally tries running a business by treating their employees as assets. This strategy has been very successful for them, and it is good for their employees too. Im surprised that there are still companies using other less successful strategies to be honest.
 
As long as it's with pay, that's fine. Back when I worked hourly, I would take those holiday hours so that others could get time off and I could get more money.

If you're normally scheduled on a Thursday and you lose eight hours of pay, that's not really doing you a service if you're barely making ends meet.
 
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