Pizza Hut manager fired for refusal to open on Thanksgiving Day

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Agree.

Also - I remember there were always a few restaurants open, though. Everything else shut down. The restaurants always served traditional thanksgiving meals so if a family didn't want to buy and cook all that food or there weren't enough to bother to cook that much for they could still get their thanksgiving meal. They weren't open the whole day, either. The employees weren't too unhappy about working it because it was STILL all about the holiday. Basically one of the reasons we use the term "good old days" so frequently. Businesses were part of communities instead of voracious corporations that will chew up and spit out anything that gets in their paths.

When I worked in the food industry working certain holidays where mandatory, Thanksgiving being one of them.
Like Midnight Oil said many places are open on the holidays. the world doesn't close.
Thanksgiving eve is one of the busiest bar nights around here, especially bars with live music. Heck I'm even setting in for a couple songs with the Whiskey River Nightmare Band tomorrow night. Thanksgiving evening is also a busy bar night.

I had an opening crew every day ... except for Thanksgiving. It appears they knew no one wanted Pizza on Thanksgiving due to historical sales data, so the General Managers pretty much ran the stores by themselves all day, with a whole 3 or 4 customers. Pretty useless.

Every eatery that's been in business uses historical data for everything from staffing to ordering food. That's for every day they are open, not just holidays.

And this is probably why you had few customers. Shops in less ritzy markets probably saw higher sales. Upscale customers doubtfully see going to The Hut a viable Thanksgiving option. Customers in less affluent locales might see it as better than going to McDonalds.

Can't speak to Pizza Hut, but speaking generally, there are many who are not only willing but look for holidays to work. My mother was a waitress in a diner for years. If she didn't get scheduled to work a holiday she switched with someone with young kids and didn't want to work the holiday. The tips were always better.

Sounds good to call all these corporations evil, etc. but the food industry in particular has a long history of staying open on holidays because they know there are many who either don't celebrate them or who would rather eat out than cook.

Most companies, restaurants, etc. look for people willing to work the holidays before requiring people to stay. But if they can't find enough willing participants then they have to staff them somehow.

Sorry, but companies aren't evil because they want to make money. If this manager had issues with working holidays he should have found work outside the food/retail industry. Holiday and/or weekend work is no secret in that sector...

Which companies and corporations exactly?

Just restaurants and retail?

Are the people who work there somehow more important than the employees who will still be working Thanksgiving Day to keep your internet, website, payment processor, phone, radio, cable, power and water running?

Where does it all end? Everybody gets the day off?

Lol, he's a fool If he was a store manager refusing to work.

I've worked in chain restaurants years ago, trust me, there's thousands of people willing to work for every person that refuses to work. Those restaurants have stacks of applications.

The good news is Domino's Pizza is always hiring drivers, so he can waste another 10 years working his way into management.

I worked as manager for Corporate Pizza Hut, but there are franchises also. Apparently, this store had been closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas previously, so now they were taking away a major holiday that their employees previously had off.

Franchises can make their own hours, but word came back from Corporate to offer this guy his job back. There are a lot of Pizza Huts that do not open on Thanksgiving. I'm glad he got it back if he still wants it.

I appreciate the comments. But the reality is that there are many people workiing behind the scenes today to make sure our businesses continue to operate. People who work for our hosting companies, people who provide technology and services to keep the hosting companies operating, people who keep our payment processors running, people who provide our internet connections, people who make sure adservers are running, people who are working to keep social media sites working, people working at Google to make sure our AdSense and AdWords and such are functioning, people working at Amazon who fill the orders coming in from affiliate sites, etc.

If you're paying for a service that allows you to conduct business, then yes, you do employ people to work today.

More than likely, there are far more people working behiind the scenes today to make sure our businesses are running than are employed at that Pizza Hut franchise or even at the local Walmart. Certainly more than are working at the convenience store down the street today.

It makes no sense to me that business owners operating today would complain about, attack or call for boycotts on others for doing the same thing. Those business owners are still a cell in the organism, a cog in the wheel, another brick in the wall. They can justify it however they wish, but in reality, it's all the same.

If a business chooses to operate today, whether it be an online business or a brick and mortar, I support their decision to do so.

I don't support protests, attacks, boycotts, derogatory labels and rage against those who choose to operate today.

Most likely I won't be buying gas or going to the store. After 30+ years in restaurants, I certainly won't be going to one. Actually, I won't be going anywhere.

I will be watching cable from time to time, reading some news and other websites, may listen to some music or watch some videos. I'll probably spend some time tinkering with some existing sites or a couple that are under development. I'm sure I'll text or call a few people and exchange a few emails. I've already received emails from WooThemes and others wanting me to check out today's offerings, so I might do that. There's a WSO I've been thinking of buying, so I may do that today. I did buy some underwear and socks on Amazon earlier. I'll be thankful for all the businesses and people working today who allow me to do these things.

I'll also be spending time with my daughters and their families who'll be stopping by. It'll be our second Thanksgiving Day together in many years. As I mentioned further upstream, I spent 15 years or more working in restaurants on Thanksgiving Day so there was some shuffle for family during that time.

But spending a day together labeled Thanksgiving on the calendar isn't really all that important to us and never has been. Any day that we can spend together is a blessing and worthy of thanks.

One of the GOOD things about franchises is that, at least the better ones, DO have codes of conduct, and watch things like this. After all, pizza hut, in the end, has little of REAL value but its name and recognition of that as a brand. ANYBODY can make a pizza!

Steve