Who Is Working United States Thanksgiving XI? (2023 Edition)

[kphoger]

Not this year. I work retail at Target so my store is closed on Thanksgiving. However since I'm traveling this year, I have to convince them to let me have Black Friday weekend off.

Sounds like you'd better hurry up and ask them...

A bit late.  Since this is Target, if I were the manager, I'd talk about needing more lead time to approve time-off on such a big day.  If I still had to disapporve due to coverage at this late point and the person called in sick -- given this is Target -- I might consider trying to get someone more reliable, depending upon other recent hiring experiences.

My first real job was pushing carts at Target (Roosevelt & County Farm, Wheaton, IL) back in 2000.  Management had announced that no time off requests would be approved for the month of December.  I was planning to go back to my family in Kansas for the Christmas holiday.  So I turned in my two weeks' notice.  The manager offered to approve my request and give me a raise instead—from $5.25 to $5.50 an hour—but I declined anyway.  I had recently moved and had to take the bus to work instead of walking two miles, so I simply planned on getting a new job closer to my apartment when I returned from Christmas.  Which I did.

Man, jobs were a lot easier to find back then...

[ZLoth]

On my first of three volunteer shifts for this holiday weekend.

[Henry]

This is my first holiday trip back to Chicago since 2019 (the year before the pandemic). I'm planning to leave for Seattle tomorrow.

[ZLoth]

On my first of three volunteer shifts for this holiday weekend.

And, due to a last minute emergency, I'm pulling a double today.

[1995hoo]

[vdeane]

Just wait until the Earthanomics majors find out what the people of UK do for Christmas.
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