small and petty but it still pisses me off! WHY TOYS R US?! - Page 2

**squirt** · 10-13-2009, 04:02 PM

I worked for Chick Fil A ... and I'm their customer for life! lol they are closed EVERY Sunday!

Pixsurguy · 10-13-2009, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Shkeeptareh

to the average consumer, but to a retail worker who only typically has three guaranteed days off a year (Easter, Thanksgiving, and Xmas) this was disturbing. It was presented to the stores as capitalizing on a competitive advantage. This information is supposed to be highly confidential but I just feel like calling bullshit on these arrogant corporate assholes who will be enjoying Thanksgiving with their families whilst the true workers will be working and preparing for the busiest shopping day of the year. Also, we will be opening at midnight Thanksgiving Day to enjoy another competitive advantage.

Signed,
Soon to be former Toys "R" Us Kid

Not really that small and I doubt that it qualifies as petty.

OK - it is true that probably a majority of retail establishments are open on most holidays, Turkey Day especially, I think that the employee almost always gets the short end of the straw. Employers in general and very large ones in particular are too often run by bean counters who have less human empathy than an anvil. Profit, profit, profit, profit - that's what it is about and piss on anyone who might get in the way of it.

But for a few somewhat enlightened state and federal legislatures over the years, if big business had any more than the gigantic power that they already have, we'd still have child labor, no unemployment compensation, no workers compensation laws, no workplace safety laws, and certainly no unions. Unions, being run by humans, clearly are imperfect and sometimes abusive. However, without them, the employers would be even more dictatorial and rigid than they are now.

Vinnie · 10-13-2009, 06:37 PM

I'd boycott Toys-R-Us on general grammatical principles:
It's We-Are-Toys surely!

hortysir · 10-13-2009, 06:42 PM

Mike Tyson bought the chain and he's changing it to We-B-Toys

Vinnie · 10-13-2009, 06:51 PM

I'd accept Toys-Are We. I have some standards you know.

**squirt** · 10-13-2009, 06:51 PM

no no no ... he's changing it to We B' Toys 'N Shit lol

Vinnie · 10-13-2009, 06:54 PM

web toys and shit? sounds like some coprophile supplies shop!

**kipper** · 10-13-2009, 07:04 PM

Bunch of wusses, we work thanksgiving here and never moan about it...We don't even give the Turkeys a day off...

hortysir · 10-13-2009, 07:52 PM

How about July 4th?

Flynn · 10-13-2009, 08:19 PM

If you don’t have tertiary qualifications that enable you to dictate the terms of your own employment then you are an unskilled minimum wage earner and you will never have any bargaining power when it comes to pay and conditions.

Retail workers are part of the minimum wage earners group and they should accept where they slot into the system or retrain so I don’t have to read about how their lives suck.

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10-13-2009, 04:02 PM	#11 (permalink)
squirt Super Moderator Join Date: May 2004 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 356,052 Rep Power: 8573	I worked for Chick Fil A ... and I'm their customer for life! lol they are closed EVERY Sunday!

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Vinnie Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 7,167 Blog Entries: 6 Rep Power: 1348	I'd boycott Toys-R-Us on general grammatical principles: It's We-Are-Toys surely!

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Vinnie Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 7,167 Blog Entries: 6 Rep Power: 1348	I'd accept Toys-Are We. I have some standards you know.

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squirt Super Moderator Join Date: May 2004 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 356,052 Rep Power: 8573	no no no ... he's changing it to We B' Toys 'N Shit lol

10-13-2009, 06:54 PM	#17 (permalink)
Vinnie Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 7,167 Blog Entries: 6 Rep Power: 1348	web toys and shit? sounds like some coprophile supplies shop!

10-13-2009, 08:19 PM	#20 (permalink)
Flynn Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Austrlaian Capital Territory, Canberra, Flynn 2615 Posts: 6,620 Blog Entries: 18 Rep Power: 1049	If you don’t have tertiary qualifications that enable you to dictate the terms of your own employment then you are an unskilled minimum wage earner and you will never have any bargaining power when it comes to pay and conditions. Retail workers are part of the minimum wage earners group and they should accept where they slot into the system or retrain so I don’t have to read about how their lives suck.