Lots of people!
Some people just can't cook! Some people don't have time (maybe they work in an industry where they also have to work that day), and some people don't have the money. (Thanksgiving dinners are EXPENSIVE! I spent ~$200 on one last year!)
In any case, restaurants are usually busier than normal on days like Thanksgiving. Let that one soak in for a bit.
Just because you wouldn't do something doesn't mean there aren't thousands who would.
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Thanksgiving isn't a religious holiday...
When I was 16-17 I worked at McDonald (22 now), we opened on Thanksgiving - if someone didn't want to or couldn't work on Thanksgiving then they were able to post out 2 weeks ahead of time and they didn't get put on shift. There are a lot of people that don't have family or friends to celebrate and eat on Thanksgiving with - they still need to eat.
"Fair treatment", you say?
I had people lining up asking to work Thanksgiving this year. Why? Because they get paid time-and-a-half (in addition to the statutory holiday pay -- so double time and a half) and the servers know the restaurant will be busy (which means more tips!)
Minimum wage here is $10.25, and most of the kitchen makes a good deal more than that. But at double time-and-a-half, even someone working for minimum wage would be making $25.66 an hour. (I had some people making ~$45 an hour on that day.)
You'll find that making $400+ for a single day's work often outweighs the allure of family drama and an overdone turkey.
Supply and demand I guess. Obviously here is demand for them to be open or else they wouldn't staying open this year.
It's company policy, if he's not prepared to follow it then it's reasonable for them to get rid of him.
I could definitely see why pizza hut might be interested in being open Christmas & Thanksgiving - around my area, liquor stores and pizza places do great business on those days. Plenty of people who don't do family events. And Pizza Hut is most definitely open on those days and does decent business.
What would be unreasonable is if the company could strongarm workers into working those days, or not pay them extremely extravagant overtime rates. Double or triple time makes working holidays worthwhile rather than a chore (at least for many). Given that it's a US store, I'd guess that those aren't the cases tho & I'd regard that as unfair.
TL;DR: Reasonable to fire him, but he likely has a point about employment conditions & I hope there's backlash over that aspect
Dosn't look to me as if the manager owns Pizza Hut, ergo why would he get to make policy regarding what times/days the store would be open.
READ and be less Ignorant.
That's not what is celebrated, and you're really stretching trying to include one word -- 'blessing' -- as grounds for naming it a religious holiday. Thanksgiving is a secular holiday.
To which religion does Thanksgiving belong? Why is it only practiced in the United States and Canada -- on different months, I might add?
Answer these questions and you will see that it is not a religious holiday at all.
A guy who refused to do his job without anything resembling a good reason was fired for his stupidity. Why should anyone care?
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
Revelation 6:8
If his contract doesn't give him Thanksgiving off, then he should be open. Whether or not Pizza Hut SHOULD be open on Thanksgiving is irrelevent, if his contract doesn't exclude it, then tough. That's called real world.
It can be celebrated religiously, or as a secular holiday - Once again, the bible has no reference nor frame of address to it; it is not a religious holiday/ season.
However, to sate your appetite of religion hunting i challenge you thusly.
Go to the bible, and find me a passage that references to it.
It's roots are secular in nature, it just so happens certain religious folks adopt it also.
I'll add on to this, that it need not appear in the Bible -- but any modern religious text.
It still doesn't exist.
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No it isn't. Your fundamental understanding of the holiday is incorrect.
Thanksgiving falls well AFTER the harvest. You don't bless crops that you've already had sitting in your storage area for two months. That's literally the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
I'm not a fan of Thanksgiving at all these days and never will be. If I had to work just that day for the whole week I'd take it for lulz. Now if the inlaws I had were really good if I was married and they all loved me and all that. I'd feel disappointed that I'd have to work. Ahh well...guy probably should of endured even if it was Thanksgiving.
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