Second Year Petition Started To Stop Target From Working Employees on Thanksgiving

 

 

Yes RHU we've see this sad horrible movie before. Last year a Target employee started a petition to stop Target from working it's employees on Thanksgiving. We promoted it and we all signed it. Over 200,000 signatures were collected. Target did nothing. Black Friday came and went and all the stores had the biggest increases they'd seen in years. Nobody cared about the humans who had to work on Thangsiving. This was one of the things that inspired my new book Return To The Big Fancy and I mention in the intro how disheartening it was to see how there was so much talk about Occupy Wallstreet and down with corporations in general, yet nobody cared when it came to shopping and making the humans work on Thanksgiving Day. --Freddy

 

 

 

From Good Morning America, by SUSANNA KIM (@skimm)

Nov. 12, 2012

Retailers are pushing the envelope again this Thanksgiving with earlier store openings, bringing jeers from some employees who say they would prefer to spend the holiday with their families.

Target announced on Monday that it's opening on Thanksgiving at 9 p.m. at some stores for its Black Friday sale, which in the past began the day after Thanksgiving.

Walmart will be opening its doors at 8 p.m. Sears will also open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving, up from 4 a.m. on Black Friday last year. Kmart will be open Thanksgiving Day 6 a.m. to 4 p.m., then it will close and reopen 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. Macy's, Kohl's and Best Buy open at midnight.

Some employees and their families have expressed frustrationwith the earlier store opening time, saying it cuts into family celebrations. Last year, one Target employee started a petition in protest against Target's 11 p.m. opening, which proceeded as planned.

This year, a sister of a Target employee in Vernon Hills, Ill., started a petition on Change.org.

Jennifer Ann, 26, started the petition so that her younger brother, a part-time Target employee, can spend Thanksgiving with the family. She asked that her last name not be published to protect her brother's employment with the retailer.

"Last year he had to leave early, and this year he won't be able to make it at all," she said. Her brother, who has worked at Target for a handful of years, is a full-time student. Jennifer Ann said her brother enjoys his job and has no plans to leave Target.

"It's just this time of year it gets extra stressful," she said.

Traditionally, her family travels about 40 minutes to their grandmother's home to spend the holiday with their extended family. Her brother, however, will have to be at work around 7 p.m.

A spokeswoman for Target said that the 9 p.m. opening time was "carefully evaluated with our guests, team and the business in mind."

"In fact, across the country, team member preferences were considered in creating our store staffing schedules," Target said in a statement. "Thanksgiving weekend is one of the busiest of the year, and we appreciate our Target team's flexibility on this weekend and throughout the holiday season."

Jennifer Ann said her brother does not believe Target will change its policies this year, but she hopes Target will reconsider their plans for 2013.

Change.org is hosting about 40 similar petitions against other retailers, including Best Buy, Sears and Toys "R" Us.

"I just hope next year this doesn't occur. I hope retailers take a look at this," Jennifer Ann said. "Every year this gets worst. People want to spend Thanksgiving with their families. Next year, I hope they revert to the way things were when Black Friday was on Friday."

via abcnews.go.com

 

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Comments

[photoslave]

Will be posting the petition link on facebook.

[SusannahJoy]

The thing is though, a petition isn't going to do anything. Why would Target care about a bunch of signatures, as long as they're still making a ton of money? That doesn't make it right, but anyone who expects anything different is pretty naive. The only way to get these stores to stop opening super early is to stop shopping there (at least, during those hours). That said, I'm pregnant, and living far away from all my friends and family, which means I have to buy all the furniture and clothes and everything, without getting to use anyone's old stuff, and buying it all on black friday will save me hundreds of dollars, if not more. I feel bad, but I dont have that much extra money.

[TerminusOmega13]

"carefully evaluated with our guests, team and the business in mind."

Translation: Demands of Business dictate what we do.

That seems to be the idea for most businesses today. I now rate businesses on a scale of Demands of Business v. Demands of our Employees.

[Skittles]

A spokeswoman for Target said that the 9 p.m. opening time was "carefully evaluated with our guests, team and the business in mind."
"In fact, across the country, team member preferences were considered in creating our store staffing schedules," Target said in a statement.
Translation: We couldn't care less about our employees, frankly they should get on their knees and suck our corporate dick when we say to because we don't consider them to be real humans. We could easily replace all of our employees at any time, and frankly they're lucky we don't charge them for the blessing of working for us. We also don't need to worry about public outcry because we bribe all the politicians to maintain our power and authority along with other corporations.

[Eviscerator]

Remind me again why Anonymous doesn't just spread addresses, phone numbers, and emails of the corporate asshats responsible for this?

I'm not advocating mob violence, no. Not at all.

[Zmidponk]

'In fact, across the country, team member preferences were considered in creating our store staffing schedules'

Translation:They asked team members whether they wanted to start the Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving evening or get anally raped by a police baton wrapped in rusty barbed wire, and most said they'd prefer the former (though many had to think about it first).

[NC Tony]

'In fact, across the country, team member preferences were considered in creating our store staffing schedules'

Say it with me:

BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!

What that should say is "In fact across the country we figured by opening earlier we could ruin thousands of employees Thanksgiving festivities and make more money for our greedy corporate overlords who will be miles away from the store and stuffing their fat stupid faces while the employees who have to work wish for their slow and painful deaths."