DUmmy is boycotting any store that dares to open on Thanksgiving

[BannedFromDU]

scheming daemons (21,590 posts)

I will not shop in any establishment that makes its employees work on Thanksgiving

I know there are bigger issues in the world..... But this is just one more way that corporations are devaluing their workers.

Let them have one ****ing day off to be with their families.

Personally, I will boycott for the entire Christmas season any store that is open on thanksgiving.

I am looking at you, Macy's and Kmart.

...and it goes over like a wet fart in church.

Star Member Scuba (31,127 posts)
1. Many employers pay 1.5X or double time. Health care workers, cops, firemen and many others ....

... work every holiday. So what's the big deal?

Not to mention the quizzical DUmmy regard for Thanksgiving when less than a month ago they were roasting Columbus on a spit for having the nerve to visit before the Indians walked across Alaska.
Really, lurkers, if the white man is the source of all evil in North America, why do you countenance Thanksgiving at all? Instead, every year we hear endless stories about your freeper relatives
RUINING your Thanksgivings?

Said differently, why is Thanksgiving more or less DU's favorite holiday? I don't get it. It celebrates the presence of the nasty white man on sacred Indian territory (which come to think of it, why
then are Muslims allowed in Scandinavia? Oh well - can't expect you to be consistent when you're as stupid as you are)

Travis_0004 (1,284 posts)
6. Cops and fireman know it comes with the job

As a society we need cops a firefighters to work. Society will not collapse if Macys closes for a day. I dont think its too much to ask to close one day a year to let people be with their family. I wont buycott those companies all season but I will not buy anything on Thanksgiving.

Um, DUmmies? Macy's employees already get days off. In fact, because of 0shitheadcare, they're probably getting LOTS of days off. (168-29)/24 days off per week, in fact.

bhikkhu (8,526 posts)
7. In principle yes, but many younger people love to work on the holidays

for the 2X pay. Often its overtime pay, on top of holiday pay. I usually wind up shopping for something or other on thanksgiving and have had a few conversations with people working - usually its about how great it is to make the extra money and not have to cook and clean.

Well that takes the stuffing out of the turkey, doesn't it, moron?

[Dori]

What about markets and restaurants?

I've gone out to dinner twice on Thanksgiving.  Both times were wonderful experiences and I wasn't wiped out from all the cooking and clean-up, I actually got to enjoy it.

This year we have six fewer shopping days before Christmas.  With the lousy economy, Obamacare kicking in and the competition of on-line shopping, I can see why these companies want to get a jump on black Friday.

 

[BannedFromDU]

I can see why these companies want to get a jump on black Friday.

     And this will be the 5th year in a row that DUmmies cheer on holiday sales, whereas until Xmas 2008 they hi-fived and hooted when sales flagged. How terrible it must be to be a DUmmy.

[Gina]

It seems that if the market demands it then let people go shopping when they want.  Get yo hands out of private business!

[landofconfusion80]

If this becomes a thing, all the primitives not going to the stores would greatly cut down on shop lifting.

[Carl]

I guess Macys and Kmart will be laying off quite a few now. 

[BannedFromDU]

I guess Macys and Kmart will be laying off quite a few plainclothes detectives now. 

FIFY. Less boosting with no DUmmies there.

[jukin]

Not One Damn Dime Day....redux with the same results.

[Rebel]

scheming daemons (21,590 posts)

I will not shop in any establishment that makes its employees work on Thanksgiving

What happens when you choke on a neck bone, fooo? 

[BannedFromDU]

Not One Damn Dime Day....redux with the same results.

Ah, yes...when it was patriotic to not shop.

StephanieMarie Donating Member (642 posts)    Tue Dec-14-04 08:58 PM
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Not One Damn Dime Day
   
I got this today from my barely-political mother-in-law:

Not One Damn Dime Day - Jan 20, 2005

Since our religious leaders will not speak out against the war in
Iraq, since our political leaders don't have the moral courage to
oppose it, Inauguration Day, Thursday, January 20th, 2005 is "Not One Damn Dime Day” in America.

On "Not One Damn Dime Day" those who oppose what is happening in our
name in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of consumer spending.

During "Not One Damn Dime Day" please don't spend money. No one damn
dime for gasoline. Not one damn dime for necessities or for impulse
purchases. Not one damn dime for nothing for 24 hours.

On "Not One Damn Dime Day," please boycott Wal-Mart, Kmart and Target. Please don't go to the mall or the local convenience store. Please don't buy any fast food (or any groceries at all for that matter).

For 24 hours, please do what you can to shut the retail economy down.

The object is simple. Remind the people in power that the war in Iraq
is immoral and illegal; that they are responsible for starting it and
that it is their responsibility to stop it.

"Not One Damn Dime Day" is to remind them, too, that they work for
the people of the United States of America, not for the international
corporations and K Street lobbyists who represent the corporations and funnel cash into American politics.

"Not One Damn Dime Day" is about supporting the troops. The politicians put the troops in harm's way.

Now over 1,200 brave young Americans and (some estimate) 100,000 Iraqis have died. The politicians owe our troops a plan - a way to come home.

There's no rally to attend. No marching to do. No left or right wing
agenda to rant about. On "Not One Damn Dime Day" you take action by
doing nothing.

You open your mouth by keeping your wallet closed.

For 24 hours, nothing gets spent, not one damn dime, to remind our
religious leaders and our politicians of their moral responsibility to end the war in Iraq and give America back to the people.

     When are they going to do this for the soldiers dying in Afghanistan?

[Rebel]

Ah, yes...when it was patriotic to not shop.


     When are they going to do this for the soldiers dying in Afghanistan?

Funny how that works out, ain't it? Dim gets elected and all the sudden war doesn't matter. Convictionless assholes.

[JohnnyReb]

DUmmies crack/pot/dope of choice dealer will be open Thanksgiving and I bet they don't boycott him.

[Freeper]

Every time the DUmmies stage a boycott retailers across the country breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that at least for a day shoplifting will cease.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Paging Happy Fun Ball with the graphic of the "impact" of a DUmmy boycott on the economy. 

[fitman]

I gotta agree with this though I would not boycott.. It furacked that co's are opening on Thanksgiving and Christmas..let families be together a couple days per year for celebration.

Total bullsh*t these stores are open those 2 days..

[Skul]

I can see that idiot driving around looking for stores that are open, just to not shop there. 

[BannedFromDU]

I can see that idiot driving around looking for stores that are open, just to not shop there. 

 

Tasty.

"But Mr. Jones - if we open, Scheming Dummy won't shop here!"

"That's precisely why we're opening, Jimmy. Now put the sign out. I don't care if no one comes in, so long as one of the ones not coming in is Scheming DUmbass."

[Ptarmigan]

I am surprise that DUmmies even celebrate Thanksgiving as they think it is oppressive and racist.

Anyways, I do not get the Christmas Creep. Really annoying.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I can see that idiot driving around looking for stores that are open, just to not shop there. 

"That restaurant is so busy, no one goes there anymore" - Yogi Berra

[Big Dog]

I gotta agree with this though I would not boycott.. It furacked that co's are opening on Thanksgiving and Christmas..let families be together a couple days per year for celebration.

Are you being disgebious here?

Total bullsh*t these stores are open those 2 days..

It's good to have a grocery store close by that is open on Thanksgiving and Christmas. A liquor store, too.

[thundley4]

Meh. I've had to work on every holiday at least once except for Christmas.

[Purple Sage]

I forget something every year and wish my husband could make a morning run to the store for me.  He will not be pleased that stores are open on Thanksgiving.    

[obumazombie]

DUmmies remain in a natural state of boycott. Freebies or the promise of them are irresistible to libs. Only in the case of looting or 5 finger discounting will they come out of their boycotting comfort zone. Sometimes midnight requisitioning will also lure them out.

[Big Dog]

DUmmies remain in a natural state of boycott. Freebies or the promise of them are irresistible to libs. Only in the case of looting or 5 finger discounting will they come out of their boycotting comfort zone. Sometimes midnight requisitioning will also lure them out.

I boycott 99% of all businesses, every day. I drive right past 'em. I am a boycotting sumbitch.

Hummell figurines and tap dancing shoes- not one damn dime!

I have successfully boycotted the state of Rhode Island for 50 years. Iceland, too. Take that, Iceland!

Today I'll combine a boycott and hunger strike against Mongolian barbecue. Change we can believe in!

[BlueStateSaint]

I boycott 99% of all businesses, every day. I drive right past 'em. I am a boycotting sumbitch.

Hummell figurines and tap dancing shoes- not one damn dime!

I have successfully boycotted the state of Rhode Island for 50 years. Iceland, too. Take that, Iceland!

Today I'll combine a boycott and hunger strike against Mongolian barbecue. Change we can believe in!

 

H5!