I'll tell you why?
I recently read an article on the Toronto Sun that upset me to no end. I
know everyone is entitled to an opinion, but so am I. My comments weren't
published on the Toronto's Suns web site. http://www.torontosun.com/2015/09/01/let-all-stores-open-on-holidays
My comments that weren't published.
"Wow the same BS that was used to get Sunday shopping in??? Play one
occupation off against another to get what you want. Just because Joe buys a new
car , doesn't mean that Sue has to do the same. There are millions of people off
on Sundays and Holidays and I'm sure they are not made to feel guilty because
other people work them. We do not put down letter carriers for being off. Good
Lord, trying to make people feel guilty for using power?? Power is an essential
service hello??There are people who chose these professions to work these shifts
. Retail workers did not. How many people who are off, go to a convenience store
on a Sunday or a holiday that are off?? And not all of them are retail workers,
millions of people who are already off. I'm not one of them who goes to a corner
store. This is propaganda for big business who is pushing for stores to be open
24/7. Just a special note to retail workers, you might get double time and think
you got the world by the balls, but when a holiday becomes a normal day, you'll
lose all those benefits that you get to work them in the first place. These
business's control the media and are well trained to suck you all in. It's
pathetic, we except gays, blacks, and other types of people because they are
different, yet...we expect retail workers to be slaves. Close the stores down on
Sundays too, wake up people, these people are trying to brainwash you with this
shit. "
A quote from his article " McEwan asks, “Whose business is it for the
government to tell me I can’t open? It is none of their business.
Seriously, we have a government to look out for us and it's none of there
business? Do we have blind folds on that we can not realize that government's
already tell business owners what to do? Does the minimum wage ring a bell?
Telling a business how to spend their money is telling them what to do ( That
employee's earned for them) .As a matter of fact it's going on all over the
world, a push for a living wage & a higher minimum wage. How about telling
an employer they have to pay you holiday pay for staying home on Christmas,
Canada Day etc? That's telling a business owner what to do. This propaganda BS
is being feed to the people all the time, and yet you all buy it. Hello? Isn't
it time we realize that these corporations are running the show? Controlling the
media? Comments like people lining up to get double time on a holiday. Are we
blinded that we can not see through the fog banks? What's going to happen if
this comes a reality in all Canadian provinces? If a Holiday becomes a normal
day, how long do you think they'll want to pay you double time? Seriously are we
starting to wake up? Look at the perks these guys used to get you to work on
Sundays. I have to hand it big business, little by little they bring things in
and after awhile people forget. Our government is being controlled by the
corporations , family life is already suffering with having stores closed on
Sundays.
"If you are one of those people insisting that capitalism can wait a day
and that life is not all about business, you will show yourself to be a
hypocrite unless you sit at home all day with the lights off on Labour
Day.
Don’t go to a movie, a concert or play because you will be forcing
unfortunate theatre employees to work on a holiday, collecting extra pay. Same
thing with restaurants; don’t eat out."
As a matter of fact sir, I do not go to a movie and I do not go to a
restaurant. Having lights on?? Since when is power not essential? I'm happy that
this was brought up in his article. Why shouldn't restaurant and movie workers
have the
holiday off too? Since when is it essential to go to a movie or a
restaurant on a holiday? I remember when the Sunday shopping debate was in full
swing in Nova Scotia. I was told by a boss that other people had to work
Sundays, and that I should have too.
I was compared to restaurant workers, call center employee's and the list
goes on. Seriously, who's fault is it that these other occupations are working
on Sundays and Holidays? It's the governments fault for allowing it, and not
giving them equal opportunity to
have the same time off. Can't these other occupations lobby and petition
governments to have Holidays and Sundays off? Yes they can but no one in the
mainstream media dare to mention it. Shh !
At that point in time, there was a debate going on about the gays and same
sex marriage. I remember all the people defending them for being who they are
and for being different. Then I got to thinking, what about us? What about
retail workers? Just because one occupation works on Sundays and holidays,
doesn't mean another should have to? We don't condemn letter carriers for being
off or attacking the dentist because he's off on a Sunday or a holiday. Yet we
expect low
income earners to work these shifts because we are bored and addicted to
shopping. Consumers love to charge up their credit cards and add more debit on
to their income. Yet we wonder why society is suffering the way that it is.
Families no longer have time to be together and now we want to add on to that
burden...seriously..take the holidays from them as well? I would love to know
if JERRY AGAR is taking his own advice and working on all these holidays as
well?
A free country has to have restrictions, so that others have the freedoms
to enjoy what most Canadians already enjoy, our holidays. Let's bring back
Sunday closure's as well, I know it's telling the business owner what to do. Big
deal , the government
tells us what to do all the time, corporations are no different. Happy
Labor day !
