Hey if you’re an office employee or government employee or a 9 to 5 and you get Labor Day off
Couple things:
1. Labor Day is supposed to be a day to remember the struggle for workers’ rights and the honoring of unions and is therefore a day to abstain from capitalist spending
2. Retail and gastronomy workers very much resent not being included in this group
3. 15 years ago my company was open for limited hours for this holiday: 11am to 5pm. Then it shifted to 10am to 6pm a few years later, and now it is 10am to 7pm. This trend is BECAUSE they set Labor Day promotions and use the profit numbers to justify the “extended” hours
4. I am not sure that this is a trend across the board, I am just pointing it out in this very specific case
5. This indicates an ever growing attitude from corporate executives that they can “boil the frogs” if they do it slow enough
6. They set the promos to be attractive and then when they inevitably produce positive numbers it is used as a data point to justify the erosion of their employees time and rights
7. In conclusion please, I beg of you, if you are going to take advantage of these “Labor Day Deals!” Do it online. We want to have this day off just as much as you do
