Walmart executive says employees are excited to work on Thanksgiving

[RandySF]

There are steps some companies are taking to soften the blow for employees working on the holidays.

With Walmart stores opening at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, workers will be eligible to receive holiday pay, which is pay equivalent to the average of the number of hours worked for the previous two weeks, in addition to their typical wages. They also will receive a 25 percent discount on items they purchase. The company will also feed them Thanksgiving dinner at work.

The company explains that most Walmart stores are open 24 hours, 7 days a week, so they have been open on Thanksgiving for years.
"Walmart associates are really excited to work that day," said Duncan Mac Naughton, executive vice president, chief merchandising and marketing officer for Walmart U.S. on a conference call on Thursday to discuss the company's holiday plans. "It's a pretty high energy day for associates as well."


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[Ikonoklast]

1. Betcha Duncan Mac Naughton will have a nice dinner with his family this Thanksgiving.

[wundermaus]

2. I'll bet they would be more excited...

if they stayed home to be with their families on Thanksgiving day and were paid for that day off.
And those well deserving, hard working employees were given a complementary, complete turkey dinner for their family, too.
Add to that a living wage where every Walmart employee can LIVE the American Dream.
Imagine that for just a moment.
Can you imagine it?
Can you imagine what would happen to all of US?
I can.

[truebluegreen]

3. That makes perfect sense:

if you were in danger of going without food because of missing a day you'd be "excited" to work on Thanksgiving too.

[Control-Z]

4. Yeah, they're excited!

They're getting paid better that day than any other day of the year. After crap wages all the other days, damn straight they're excited. A couple extra bucks and a turkey leg. Who wouldn't want to give up family time for that?






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[BlueJazz]

5. "Walmart associates are really excited to work that day"

[Chipper Chat]

6. Right!

Just like I'm exited to be having Sarah Palin as my houseguest on Thanksgiving.

[CFLDem]

7. Two weeks pay for one day?

Where do I sign up?

I'm not really a big fan of anyone being open on Thanksgiving but heck that's not a bad deal.

But maybe that's because I'm used to working holidays...plus I love free food.

[Agschmid]

9. That's not quite what it means...

Let's say week 1 you work 20 hours or 5 4 hour shifts. Week two you work 20 hours in 4 5 hour shifts. Then on Thanksgiving you will receive pay for your average shift of ~4.5 hours plus however many hours you work that day.

In some states they will also be paid 1.5x or 2x time but it's not the deal you thought it was.

[CFLDem]

10. Ugh. No thanks.

I guess I'll have to dust off my pitchfork again.

[Agschmid]

11. Here use my pledge wipe to get the dust off!

[Tanuki]

8. Reminds me of Mitt Rmoney saying his Chinese factory, with the women stacked 3-deep

in the dorms, had a barbed wire fence around it because everyone else was so eager to get in.

[thelordofhell]

12. Every day should be Holiday Pay

Fuck you WalMart..........

[titaniumsalute]

13. Wonder if Duncan Mac Douche Barge works on Thanksgiving

Of course if he does work he justifies it because he's paid probably $1 million per year or so with fat benefits and a fat pension.

[Ilsa]

14. Well then, they can be happy without

Me as a customer.

[Brigid]

15. Don't shop at any store on Thanksgiving.

That really is the only way to put a stop to this foolishness.

[Glassunion]

16. Like that will ever happen.

We Americans cannot go more than 12 hours without leaving the house to consume. Must buy... Must have more... Want want want!!!!

[SheilaT]

17. I'm working Thanksgiving Day.

From 9am to 8pm. But I work in a hospital, so working on holidays, even Thanksgiving and Christmas is the norm.

Yeah, I'll make extra money, which will be nice. But I am saying that this is the last Thanksgiving I'll ever work. This is my fifth in a row, and I've already told my supervisor that next year, in 2014, I want Thanksgiving off. What I haven't told her, and won't for quite some time, is that I'm planning to retire on October 1, 2015. I'm already 65. I'll be 67 at that point. It's about time.

Meanwhile, I will not shop anywhere on Thanksgiving Day. Not this year, not ever. Oh, and I never shop at WalMart. Maybe I will someday if they start paying their employees decently, and if what they carry in their stores isn't total crap. I haven't been inside one in about ten years now, and the when I was last going to them somewhat regularly, I'd noticed how the quality of their stuff had declined precipitously.

[Vashta Nerada]

18. Holiday pay is time-and-a-half at Walmart.

I know this because I worked for them for three years. Time-and-a-half for me was $10.87/hour.

And Duncan is full of shit. Not one of my ex-coworkers is excited to work on Thanksgiving. In fact, they're pissed off.