• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    10 months ago

    Didn’t leave the house.

    I worked retail/food service for years. Going to places on Christmas tells employers that they need to be open those days, and that their employees don’t need the day off.

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      10 months ago

      Frankly i find it inconsiderate to the social contract to go out on holidays, and sometimes around them.

      Its frankly why i always found Black Friday and the “scope creep” of this festival of consumerism partially so repulsive. I mean its repulsive on its own just in the way people act, but doubly so in that it runs right through a national holiday.

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        10 months ago

        I lost years of Thanksgivings with family due to the scope creep of black Friday. Some years family could work around it, like we would have dinner at noon so I could be at work by 6 - but even then you feel terrible for forcing that.

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        I don’t have a problem on religious holidays with going out to a place run by people who don’t celebrate it. I was craving Arab food Christmas Eve which was fine because it’s just another day for them. I would never visit during their holidays as they would never go to a Christian store during ours.

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      To be fair, not everyone celebrates Christmas. As long as employees are getting a certain number of holidays in a year for whatever tradition they follow, I think it’s fine to be open on Christmas. But not to force anyone to work on Christmas, only if the business can sustain itself on non-Christmas-celebrating staff

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        10 months ago

        that’s fair, but my experience was unfortunately the latter. Retail was very much “we need you to work today”, and any response other than “okay” was pretty much a reprimand. “Show up or don’t show up again” was said to me when I wanted to have Thanksgiving with family. Now I avoid anything non-essential on holidays.

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      10 months ago

      It’s kind of a paradox really because people can’t go to the establishments if they’re not open. So how would the owners know whether or not people want to go there if they simply stay closed?

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        10 months ago

        Other way around. Places default to open, then if people don’t come, they stay closed next year as acost saving measure.

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          That’s how it works already, Chinese culture doesn’t care about Christmas, they make great money being open for their culture and others that don’t celebrate Christmas and want a normal day.

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            I love having Chinese coworkers because they will work extra shifts during Thanksgiving and Christmas. But it’s my responsibility to work extra shifts for Chinese new year.

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            When I was working for a video rental place on Thanksgiving, people would always say “I can’t believe you have to work today!” While renting movies. I wanted to yell at them “if you didn’t come in, I wouldn’t have to!”

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        I would argue that then they should just stay closed, for their employee’s sake. Even non-christian, Christmas is a national holiday, and I don’t know many things that need to be open. (Hospitals and emergency unfortunately of course excluded)

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          This is the way. For people who really want to have other days off for their cultural holiday, they can swap shifts with other employees who will be happy to work those days.

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              Legit question, no? You are suggesting places should be closed because it’s a national holiday, so when it’s their cultural holiday they have to be open so you can go shop since it’s not a national holiday?

              It’s hypocritical. Thats a hostile reponse.

              They should be allowed to choose to be open because it’s a free market.

              Your exceptions are strange, they should be allowed to be closed too, if that’s truly how you feel that it should be. It’s a national holiday after all.

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                Nope, obviously I do not have a binary yes/no opinion, there is obviously nuance, but you’re being very hostile in your responses and I’m not interested in having an all-out argument here.

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                No, but it’s more subtle than ‘free market.’ There should be some mandatory national holidays.

                This gives employees the opportunity to exchange shifts and have time off during their non-Christmas cultural holidays.

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        My step son is a chef. I think it’s insane he was only paid double, given what they’re charging for a meal.

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    10 months ago

    Only left the house to help my neighbor look for her escaped cat. It turned out to be in their basement. The cat gets it.

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    10 months ago

    After many years of shitty Christmases … I refuse to leave the house on Christmas Day or any time from Christmas to New Years.

    Y’all crazy and insane out there and I don’t want to meet, talk or see any of you in person during this time of year.

    I’ve prepared my home base and I can live here with enough food for a month and enough entertainment for two lifetimes.

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      Sadly I have to venture forth tomorrow or the day after for sustenance. Other than that I’m with you, people are nuts this time of year and are best avoided.

      What entertainment are you enjoying? I started watching “For All Mankind” this week. So I’d like to get all caught up on that.

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        people are nuts this time of year and are best avoided

        I think it’s true because I’m in a really wealthy suburban area right now and there’ve been so many police sirens at night lately. Like WTF is going on? drunk drivers, car accidents, domestic violence, drug overdoses?

        I think people do go nuts the week between Christmas and New Year’s because all the white collar people are off work a whole week and it’s party time for them

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    10 months ago

    Went to a del taco today for breakfast. Tipped the guy $20 for working today. Went to a bar this evening for a beer and also tipped the bartender $20.

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    Yeah I went out, pretty much everything was open except for the street vendor I normally get my oranges from. I guess Christmas just isn’t as big a deal in China as it was back home - still saw Christmas decorations at a handful of stores and restaurants - my tea said on the cup “Merry Christmas” and had an explanation of what Christmas was on the back lol

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      Seriously, how many of us lemmies live somewhere else? I’m in Rabat atm, there’s zero assassinated pine trees covered in brightly coloured plastic shit in sight. And everything is Business As Usual here.

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          I checked all the replies before replying here, and but for this “here in China” one, nobody seems to live / be / exist outside the catholic sphere ?

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              Well, online English speaking communities are gonna have a bias towards native English speakers. Obviously some will browse these communities because they’re the largest, but while machine translation makes communication much easier, it’s still more difficult than with speakers of your own language. And most native English speakers who aren’t also native speakers of a language mutually intelligible with Hindi live in north America. (I’m excluding South Asia because a sizable fraction of the online South Asian communities communicate in the pre-colonization languages, mostly Hindi). Most such people have a shared cultural heritage that is largely European with a British slant.

              When you think about it it’s not an unreasonable question, when you interpret it to be asking how many of us are outside of the cultural influence of the anglosphere

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          It’s complicated, but it looks like this season’s gonna be 60% Morocco 30% France. I’m Belgian. I have too many toothbrushes.

          It is nice over here indeed, very safe and friendly.

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    Left the house to drive the partner to her parents house for some time with them.

    Bars were open. I feel sorry for the people who go to bars Christmas day and feel even sorrier for the staff who have to work Christmas day.

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      I was a bartender last year. I worked every holiday. It didn’t phase me because I had nothing else to do. But if I had a life I would definitely make sure I didn’t work holidays one way or another, either demand it of my boss or get an entirely different job that respects humans.

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        I salute the work you did. Service jobs should come with military-style awards. A Purple Heart for Bravery in the Face of a Drunk Karen, for example.

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          Three slaps per year, doled out as you see fit.

          People would get real fuckin’ polite in December and January. Start-of-year, everybody’s got a full magazine. End-of-year… use it or lose it.

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            No problem, I’ve done retail and restaurant work, but I’ve never bartended. I know some folks who have though, and it’s really the trenches and in some ways the worst of the worst since all your customers are smashed. Yeah, y’all deserve much better pay, benefits, and protection from your patrons.

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    Did not leave the house. Did not want to give bosses that forced close to minimum wage employees incentive to continue to do so. I believe minimum wage should at least double on holidays.

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      wow, were do you live? here in Mexico they pay triple on holidays, so it’s not so weird for people wanting to work holidays

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    Didnt leave the house today. I work retail, so Im glad to not be at work today, since were closed.

    But my old man did go pick up some burgers from Jack in the Box, so apparently they were open. I hate people going out shopping on a holiday like this, as a retail worker. It means theres incentive for the companies to open during holidays, regardless of how morally correct it is. Having said that, Im thankful Jack was open, as were having a pretty rough Christmas this year, and most of my family couldnt make it due to sickness and a death. This was our Christmas dinner that my dad and I shared.

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      My wife and I always wake up at her parents’ house on Christmas Day and head to my mom’s. This year her parents had to head out early this morning, so we were on our own for breakfast, and thankfully we found a mom and pop taco place open on our way down. While I agree that everyone should have the day off, if a business wants to get that one off business and provide that service, power to them.

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    Christmas day was yesterday for me.

    I only left home for church. After that, it was back home to have lunch with family, then hosting Christmas dinner for a bunch of people.

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    Husband and I stayed in all day. We watched football and played video games. I made waffles for breakfast and spaghetti for dinner. Neighbor gave us a box of chocolates so we had some of that too.

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    I did not leave the house, but I was very grateful that there was a sushi restaurant open for delivery because my SO ate all the sushi leftover from last night which I had been looking forward to sharing. Gave a big tip, of course.