Do Target workers deserve a shortened Black Friday?

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by memyselfI

Wow, I have NEVER heard of a doctors office open on Thanksgiving let alone a physical therapists office. Emergency services and Urgent care, yes but nothing like what you described.

Yea, skilled nursing care for geriatric patients. Every one that I know of is open, lovely medicare laws.

[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by lewdog

Yea, skilled nursing care for geriatric patients. Every one that I know of is open, lovely medicare laws.

Well, that is different. If you are working in an assisted living facility then I think it's more like a hospital setting where it's expected and even required to have around the clock access to care. You are not talking a standard doctors office.

To Deberg's point, I think the difference is police, firefighters, EMT, hospitals, etc. provide LIFE SAVING SERVICES. They are also many times GOVERNMENT workers compensated quite handsomely for their work on holidays.

If you are going to equate buying cheap crap made in third world countries as the same level of importance then this country is even more fugged than I even imagined. And if you are, then why aren't retail workers compensated equivalent to doctors, EMT, firefighters, etc?

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by memyselfI

Well, that is different. If you are working in an assisted living facility then I think it's more like a hospital setting where it's expected and even required to have around the clock access to care. You are not talking a standard doctors office.

I provided therapy, not care which the nurses perform. Yet sadly, I am expected to work even though I was pretty sure I would have these holidays off. Please feel bad for me. Oh wait, pretty happy to have a job and you have to realize you follow the rules unless you are the one making them.

[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by lewdog

I provided therapy, not care which the nurses perform. Yet sadly, I am expected to work even though I was pretty sure I would have these holidays off. Please feel bad for me. Oh wait, pretty happy to have a job and you have to realize you follow the rules unless you are the one making them.

Again, because you work at the facility I think it would be somewhat more expected. Just like the janitorial staff, kitchen and cafeteria, and housekeeping at a hospital might not be saving someone's life but they have to be there to clean up some kid's vomit, feed visitors coming to the hospital, and wash linens and towels. There is an inherent expectation that services provided at the hospital are 24/7/365 and working at the facility you accept that premise.

I think retail is no way equivalent. Unless it's a pharmacy which is now open 24/7/365. I often marvel at how lucky parents are now that they are. I remember many a sleepless night with sick toddlers whose prescriptions could not be filled until morning. And also having to make sure our cabinet was stocked with every conceivable medication in the event one got sick in the middle of the night.

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by memyselfI

And if you are, then why aren't retail workers compensated equivalent to doctors, EMT, firefighters, etc?

Um maybe because these positions don't require the education or training to perform them than the others.

[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by lewdog

Um maybe because these positions don't require the education or training to perform them than the others.

Right, but if we are placing a moral and ethical equivalency on them...Saying their presence is as needed and valued as someone with a doctorate or life saving skills.