Disgruntled Employees

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-15/strategy/30400570_1_petition-target-employee-thanksgiving-day

With 9.0% employment (true number is probably closer to 15% when considering part-timers, etc.), now we have tens of thousands of people complaining that they actually have to go to work! I realize that most people would choose to not work and be home with their families on major holidays if they can swing it, but when someone works in a particular industry like retail that requires working more/later hours closer to year end, do they have a right to complain? I think accounting professionals should stage a protest on April 15th. After all, they chose to be an accountant, but the evil IRS selected that day as the final due date.

Anyone else have thoughts?

why is it we only hear about the disgruntled employees and never the gruntled ones?

Well, everyone has things that they like or dislike about their jobs. However, lately, it seems like every person who has a problem tries to pull off the next Arab Spring by starting some kind of social media petition. They certainly have a *right* to complain. Whether or not it’s productive is another matter.

Everyone here is extremely gruntled.

Do you mean “everyone here” as in everyone at your office?

Don’t some employment contracts have a gruntlecy requirement? Something like “If employee becomes disgruntled, all our obligations under this contract become null and void, notwithstanding the survivorship of employee obligations to us.”

per HR, office gruntling should be kept to the absolute bare minimum

So, this is the guy who started the petition. I must say that his facial hair angers me more than anything else. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/black-friday-looms-workers-push-back-earlier-holiday-openings-article-1.978911?localLinksEnabled=false

That’s the beauty of the private sector, right? We can ignore protesters and petitions! edit: You cannot however, ignore that stupid facial hair.

What makes someone think that a chin strap (especially one that doesn’t connect to his hair) looks good on them?

Americans need to reclaim their life. It is great that a few workers at Target are doing something. But really you need the entire country waking up and demanding 8weeks vacation, etc. The environment in the USA is corporations > humans. Shockingly that doesn’t work out so well for the humans.

Wow I didn’t find that guy’s facial hair that disturbing compared to this link on the pg… Granny Strip-searched http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ruth-sherman-88-elderly-woman-strip-searched-kennedy-airport-article-1.986915 “They made me pull down my sweatpants and my underwear,” the widow said in a phone interview Monday. “I couldn’t believe it. I said, as a joke, ‘I don’t have a bomb in there.’”