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Old 23-12-2018, 11:58 PM #1
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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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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.
Aside from all that retail workers deserve a day off too. It’s all about common humanity this time of year.
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Aside from all that retail workers deserve a day off too. It’s all about common humanity this time of year.
What are you on about most shop are shut Xmas day and the one that are open will be run by management or owners
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What are you on about most shop are shut Xmas day and the one that are open will be run by management or owners
Most but not all. And shops aren’t the only non-essential services open on Christmas. At least read the OP.
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Most but not all. And shops aren’t the only non-essential services open on Christmas. At least read the OP.
You said shop in your op

What your point People work on Xmas day to make money get over it and have fun
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You said shop in your op

What your point People work on Xmas day to make money get over it and have fun
I didn’t only mention shops though did I. I gave examples of other non-essential services who might have to open on Christmas Day.

Either brush up on your comprehension skills or don’t troll.
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What are everyone’s opinions about non-essential services (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?
Are you saying (emergency/healthcare) are non-essential
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Are you saying (emergency/healthcare) are non-essential
It’s just funny how much effort you put into trolling.
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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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Aside from all that retail workers deserve a day off too. It’s all about common humanity this time of year.
I don't know how it works in your country... but here in Canada if you don't get Xmas day off... you will still get a paid day off within that week... or you will get compensated with double time and a paid day off... which many people who don't celebrate Xmas appreciate... extra money for working a day they would have worked anyways on a holiday they aren't invested in.
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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 don't know how it works in your country... but here in Canada if you don't get Xmas day off... you will still get a paid day off within that week... or you will get compensated with double time and a paid day off... which many people who don't celebrate Xmas appreciate... extra money for working a day they would have worked anyways on a holiday they aren't invested in.
Do you honestly think most people who work Christmas Day want to?
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Do you honestly think most people who work Christmas Day want to?
I think the world isn't as you perceive it anymore... and far less people celebrate xmas than you are implying... and many of those people like a restaurant or a shop on just another day to them.
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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I think the world isn't as you perceive it anymore... and far less people celebrate xmas than you are implying... and many of those people like a restaurant or a shop on just another day to them.
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.
Either way one national holiday a year isn’t the end of the world as far as non-essential workers are concerned.
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Either way one national holiday a year isn’t the end of the world as far as non-essential workers are concerned.
Then why make that one Christmas? Why not any one of the other 13 national holidays? Your premise is the entirety of one country deserves one day off together? Ok... I'll buy that there are non essential services we can do without for one day... but shoving Christmas down every other cultures throat isn't necessary for that to happen.
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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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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.
Halloween.
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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Halloween.
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.
I’m sure you’re a right barrel of laughs.
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You going for insults because your argument is failing? That's very TiBB of you lol
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You going for insults because your argument is failing? That's very TiBB of you lol
LMAO. It’s not even that deep but I just feel the point might be being missed.

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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It’s not that deep to be honest.
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