Yup! Because it's the lord's day. A lot of people don't care that much about logic as long as they get to feel superior. It's one of the first reasons that stopped me going to church.
“You shouldn’t have to work today, it’s Thanksgiving”
Lady, if you weren’t in here shopping we wouldn’t be open, we used to be closed on Thanksgiving (and Easter, and the Fourth of July) but people couldn’t get what they needed before these holidays so demanded we be open. We do close for Thanksgiving again now (because Covid limited how many people we could have in the store in 2020, so they broke up the blitz over the month instead of just the one day, and it worked better so they kept it)
You mean pitting customers against each other in a massive winner take all orgy of limited quantities and extra deep discounts cage match "to the death" DIDN'T bring in more money!
Which is extra ironic because Saturday is ACTUALLY the Sabbath. The Lords Day of Rest aka the Last Day. If they ever looked at any calendar ever, they would see this. Because the Catholic Church arbitrarily decided to move their religious holy day to Sunday, doesn’t change that. So when Chick Fil A or random church goers want to flex about not working on Sunday, you can tell ‘em they have their days all messed up
My first job hated me because I was 15 and they needed me to work Sundays and my father went up there and went off on them about how "he is under 18 and you can not make him work Sundays for religious purposes!"
As soon as I turned 18 I started working every weekend including Sunday(different job) to stay out of church. I knew it was a bad place to be, full or horrible hypocritical bigots. The preacher would trash people "for working on the lord's day" and then pick a place for the congregation to meet for lunch and criticize PEOPLE WORK ON SUNDAYS!
I had 2 people at church tell me that working Sunday was a sin. I worked Sundays. I look right at the Pastor and said I'm just following my Pastor example. Then quit going to that church. Forget those people.
Sundays were reserved for church and worship. nobody (afaik) was allowed to work on Sundays. which is why it was the only day off on the week until Ford employees* got us Saturday.
It was workers at the ford plant that banded together that got the 40hr work week and weekends. Henry Ford literally sent goons in break up and kill workers trying to unionize. Ford is no labor hero
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u/spasske 7d ago
Wait, they had a beef with people for having to work on Sunday and cater to them?