Bad News

[SFA]

breaks my heart.

[kcjenkins]

That is a sick family.

[mcb39]

breaks my heart.

and mine..........

[Catherine]

Now I won't even watch it, after seeing the last few posts. Thanks for the warning and my heart goes out to the little boy even without knowing what sick "joke" was played on him.

[kcjenkins]

Good decision, Cat. I could only take it half way, wish I had not looked at it. The pictures are sad, but the sound track of his entire family yukking it up over his disappointment after they set him up to think he was getting his Christmas wish, is just plain disgusting.

[Margaret CPA in OH]

I just kept waiting and waiting for them to give the real thing. What cruelty - and then to make and circulate a video is beyond comprehension... How can people be so heartless?

[joanmcq]

The same here; kept waiting for them to give him the real thing. That is the sort of joke I've played with my siblings as adults - having my brother open a package that contained only batteries before giving him the one with the Walkman for instance (yeah I'm dating myself!). But you don't do that to a kid ferchrissakes!

Back to Thanksgiving: in the '80s I worked for Tower Records which had to be the first store that was open 365 days of the year. In fact my first workday was Thanksgiving 1983. BUT the store asked for volunteers for the three major holidays (T-day, Christmas & New years), paid double time, gave the option of working a half day, and Thanksgiving & Christmas catered a meal with all the trimmings for us. That first day of work I was literally starving, and was truly thankful for having a full turkey dinner! thanksgiving was an extremely slow day, and was mostly staffed with employees like me that had no family in NYC, so the store was 'family'. The same with Christmas (I took every other Christmas off travel home to be with my family), although Christmas was horribly busy with every non-Christian in NYC shopping IMHO! The store never wanted for staff volunteering to work. This is such a difference from the Wal-Mart experience.

Tower paid full health & dental insurance too. First job I had with benefits.

[Guest Taxed]

Those types of employers are hard to come by. My son can't come this year for Thanksgiving because his boss told him last Friday he can't have Friday next week off. It is a 13 hour drive each way for him to come home. :wall:

He better get a few days for Christmas.

[Jack from Ohio]

He better get a few days for Christmas.

?????

[Guest Taxed]

?????

What did you not understand given the context of the prior 2 posts?

[Jack from Ohio]

?????

What did you not understand given the context of the prior 2 posts?

He better get a few days for Christmas.

Or what?????

[Guest Taxed]

Or what?????

It will not be a good Christmas

[Lion EA]

Why don't you go to him to make it a good Christmas?

[Guest Taxed]

That thought did cross my mind, but the rest of the family is coming to me!

He has already told his boss that since he missed Thanksgiving, he needs the day before Christmas off to travel and the day after.

[mcb39]

Once your family grows up, it is never right for everybody. Surprisingly, all of mine are going to come to me this year at the same time (including the new Great-Grandbaby). Yeah!!!

[Guest Taxed]

You are correct mcb39. But the feeling of having all my kids at one place is priceless!