Non-essential job workers working on Christmas Day
What are everyone’s opinions about non-essential services (aka non-emergency/healthcare) services opening on Christmas Day (restaurants, individual shops)? Should everyone be forced to have a day off or should business carry on for profit?
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It's vile! I could never go out on Christmas day, feel too bad for the staff!
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I would work Xmas day for extra pay
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They wouldn't be getting much profit if they stayed open, and certainly not enough to pay their staff twice/triple the amount for giving up potential time with their families. Christmas Day is probably the quietest day of the year for non-essential services so no, seems like a bad idea all round.
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The facts are not everyone celebrates Christmas. If you want everything to shut down for a Christian/Western Secular holiday... then you should also shut down for all the other religions major holidays. Where I work... more than half the staff don't celebrate or even understand the traditions surrounding the day. I had to explain stockings to several people this year. It doesnt make sense in modern society to shut everything down.
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What your point People work on Xmas day to make money get over it and have fun |
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Either brush up on your comprehension skills or don’t troll. |
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I've worked the past 9 Christmases, I don't mind too much, would love to have it off one year though
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They get paid double/triple time so I don’t see the issue working that day! I’m working Xmas day this year and I’m not too fussed!
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I generally ask which employees celebrate Xmas and give them that day off in the schedule... and I would say 70% of my staff volunteer for xmas day. |
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25 December isn’t just a random date though is it. Some absolute Scrooges will disagree but Christmas is what it is from tradition. How many other public holidays have months of preparation and elaborate decoration behind them? There’s your answer.
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Valentines day Canada Day/4th of July over here. (These would be my preferred options... celebrate our common appreciation of the free country we live in... the one that let's us accept and celebrate our differances and doesnt force others into following just one subsets beliefs) OR let's make one that isn't central to one religion and still honours family and togetherness. |
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4 July isn’t even celebrated in the UK, just so you know. Like it or not Christmas Day is one of the more universally acknowledged holidays worldwide. The world doesn’t start and end in the US or Canada. |
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