I worked 10 hours daily, Mon-Thus. That schedule was set in stone when I was hired. There was no problem for about a year, then I got a new supervisor. He didn't like me because I was 20 years older and, I knew more than him, since I used to do his job, and his bosses job. He started saying that I needed to start working Fridays. To he more of a team player. I let him know in no uncertain terms my hiring contract said otherwise. He decided to schedule me on a Friday, right before our financial year end. Told him I wasn't coming in, so he fired me. His boss started calling me Wednesday begging me to come back, since I was rhe only one to know how to get the numbers needed to close out the books. Told them they should have thought of that before they threatened and fired someone that just works, to keep busy. They had a great time with an IRS audit.

I had a full time job and a weekend part time job. The weekend part time job was because I was single and cashiering was easy. So one Thanksgiving they pulled the same thing with me. "You're working Thanksgiving", no I'm not. "yes you are." No I'm not. I don't need this job. "yes you do." no I don't, this just gave me something to do on the weekends + extra cash. I have a full time job. "you're scheduled to work". nope. I quit. good luck with that schedule! Had all the other cashier's clapping and patting me on the back on the way out the door. Went the following weekend to another business and started immediately back to weekend cashiering for something to do and meet people.

The US is wild. Firing someone for frivolous reasons like that is super illegal in my country.

I used to work for a major high-end retailer that would be closed to customers on Thanksgiving but did 80% of the holiday decorations on Thanksgiving Day. If you volunteered to work that day, you'd receive 2X hourly pay, a restaurant provided Thanksgiving meal, a pie to take home, and a fun, "Santa's elves in the workshop" atmosphere. I was a part time employee and didn't get selected to work. There were far more volunteers than open spots. Then on Friday, the store would have had a major Christmas makeover much to the delight of our frequent shoppers.

I remember at my first real job, I requested off a week of vacation like 3-4 months in advance. It was approved. About a month before my vacation we had a high turnover of people, so a lot of firings and people quitting. We were short staffed. I did pick up extra the month before. Then the new schedule came out and my PTO wasn't on there. I took it to my supervisor. She said we were on a vacation "lock out" due to staffing. I went to HR. They said they had no record of me ever requesting it off. It wasn't until I posted my grievance on Facebook that they suddenly gave me my vacation back. All the "old timers" and my supervisor told me how unprofessional I was, but I was just like "I got my vacation, didn't I?" And that's why I save pictures and copies of my requests and approvals now. For evidence.

My work place put up a paper in our breakroom about how no one can ask for Halloween + day after, Thanksgiving + day after, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, or New Year's off and if anyone fails to show up they'll be suspended for a week without pay. And they still wonder why people keep quitting.

I am constantly amazed as to the USAmerican System. :-( Stop thinking of yourselves as the Land of the Free, and think the Land of the Downtrodden.

Don't ever quit let them fire you so you get unemployment.

When I was young and working my way through college, I did the fast food thing. I'm the oldest of five, so I always had lots of responsibilities, and often had to step up and cover for one of my other siblings when they'd "forget" to do something. (My brothers and my sister really are the best, but when we were young, they'd blow stuff off, of course. My sister, the baby of the family, often got away with things like not putting the meatloaf in the oven. Me, not so much! LOL.) It was what it was -- but the real effect was that I was trained to be that always reliable person. Managers like the guy in this post love people like me -- mine once told an assistant manager "Oh, Karen will do it", before he even asked me. It took me awhile in to recognize when my manager was taking advantage of me -- hearing what he told the assistant manager was a wake up call! I'm glad for the lesson. I learned to set boundaries and look after myself, instead of letting people think I'd always "be there".

how about closing and let everyone have the day off?

I do not understand Why Thanksgiving isn’t a public holiday. One of the most important days of the year & people are expected to work. Seems silly.

Unless I'm not busy, no real plans & paying time & half, not going in. And want that in a text.

Honestly next time a supervisor should be asking me for a favor, treating me with respect, and accepting no for an answer (especially regarding coming in on days off that i need for physical recovery), but they decide to try to power trip and try to threaten me instead. I will make their jobs harder. I already left my last job for that same reason pretty much. It wasnt my day off but my ride didn't come. They scheduled me to work weekends after i already requested only to work during public transit hours. So u called in and she started telling me to "just walk" when i already wasn't sure how i could stand that long to begin with without walking 2 miles for about $20 for the day. She said they were just too short staffed to let me not come in etc so if i don't i won't work there anymore. She didn't know the hospital was wanting me to choose between the two, paid more, and let me bend, kneel, and sit as needed/possible for no tasks. So it was not at all hard to decide what to do.

This is the third time I've seen this "story" and twice on bp and once elsewhere and all the names are changed in every version lol. How lazy have "journalist" become.

Back the ol retail days... before Thanksgiving, the CEO of the company sent out a newsletter expressing his gratitude for being able to spend Turkeygeddon with his family. Coincidentally, every single person in the store was scheduled for a shortened shift that day (at least the store manager thought to make it equal, as shitty as it was that we had to be there at all). The newsletter did not go over well, and half of us were under the influence of one substance or another to make it palatable. Cue, of course, the shopper asking why we were there that day. You, it's your fault. I can give or take a lot of holidays but Tday... man let me go home and eat.

In Sweden we celebrate and open presents on Christmas eve and my local supermarket and other stores in my town close at 1pm on Christmas eve so that the workers can go home and have a good Christmas with their family. The only people who are working are in the healthcare area/emergency services. I remember my middle daughter offering to work Christmas and New year because she got triple pay for working and she works with the elderly. In Sweden over the summer all staff get 4 weeks paid vacation and for those who didn't take those 4 weeks they got triple pay and could take the 4 weeks at other times of the year. She was on maternity leave after having her baby in February but worked the whole summer because of how much she was paid. Helped to buy a house. Her partner's work closed for the summer so no money lost from him.

What type of business is that?

Never force a decision unless you are willing to live with the choice made. Turned out, the boss couldn't live with her choice.

Did he fire or threaten to fire the person that called off and didn't get their shift covered?

I like the comment "close the store".

All new & employees are told that if they normally work on a Thursday (Thanksgiving) then they have to work or make arrangements with a coworker. Everyone works either Christmas Eve or Christmas day. No one, including me the manager, can not request off big holidays. We all have families & want to be with them. I've done this for 10 yrs now & haven't had a problem.

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Now she'll cry for loan forgiveness and government assistance while voting for communists and socialists and blaming the system. I suppose everyone's situation is different, but in my experience no matter how bad the job is you never ever quit until you've secured a new gig. I've been in this exact situation before and it paid dividends to gut it out while job searching. This life owes us nothing and the whole notion of living easy is total bull squat. Granted, I do agree the boss is a p.o.s and the job was worth leaving, just not like a tantric millennial.