Didn’t leave the house.
I worked retail/food service for years. Going to places on Christmas tells employers that they need to be open those days, and that their employees don’t need the day off.
Frankly i find it inconsiderate to the social contract to go out on holidays, and sometimes around them.
Its frankly why i always found Black Friday and the “scope creep” of this festival of consumerism partially so repulsive. I mean its repulsive on its own just in the way people act, but doubly so in that it runs right through a national holiday.
I don’t have a problem on religious holidays with going out to a place run by people who don’t celebrate it. I was craving Arab food Christmas Eve which was fine because it’s just another day for them. I would never visit during their holidays as they would never go to a Christian store during ours.
To be fair, not everyone celebrates Christmas. As long as employees are getting a certain number of holidays in a year for whatever tradition they follow, I think it’s fine to be open on Christmas. But not to force anyone to work on Christmas, only if the business can sustain itself on non-Christmas-celebrating staff
that’s fair, but my experience was unfortunately the latter. Retail was very much “we need you to work today”, and any response other than “okay” was pretty much a reprimand. “Show up or don’t show up again” was said to me when I wanted to have Thanksgiving with family. Now I avoid anything non-essential on holidays.
It’s kind of a paradox really because people can’t go to the establishments if they’re not open. So how would the owners know whether or not people want to go there if they simply stay closed?
Other way around. Places default to open, then if people don’t come, they stay closed next year as acost saving measure.
That’s how it works already, Chinese culture doesn’t care about Christmas, they make great money being open for their culture and others that don’t celebrate Christmas and want a normal day.
I would argue that then they should just stay closed, for their employee’s sake. Even non-christian, Christmas is a national holiday, and I don’t know many things that need to be open. (Hospitals and emergency unfortunately of course excluded)
So fuck the other places that would need to stay open during their holidays than?
For me it’s like any other day. I wouldn’t mind working for the double holiday pay.
Only left the house to help my neighbor look for her escaped cat. It turned out to be in their basement. The cat gets it.
After many years of shitty Christmases … I refuse to leave the house on Christmas Day or any time from Christmas to New Years.
Y’all crazy and insane out there and I don’t want to meet, talk or see any of you in person during this time of year.
I’ve prepared my home base and I can live here with enough food for a month and enough entertainment for two lifetimes.
Sadly I have to venture forth tomorrow or the day after for sustenance. Other than that I’m with you, people are nuts this time of year and are best avoided.
What entertainment are you enjoying? I started watching “For All Mankind” this week. So I’d like to get all caught up on that.
people are nuts this time of year and are best avoided
I think it’s true because I’m in a really wealthy suburban area right now and there’ve been so many police sirens at night lately. Like WTF is going on? drunk drivers, car accidents, domestic violence, drug overdoses?
I think people do go nuts the week between Christmas and New Year’s because all the white collar people are off work a whole week and it’s party time for them
Went to a del taco today for breakfast. Tipped the guy $20 for working today. Went to a bar this evening for a beer and also tipped the bartender $20.
haven’t left the house all day 💅
