How Can We Call It Labor Day?
I was thinking this morning that it was not fair that I had to work on Labor Day. My co-workers do not after all but I have an event to promote at a certain function held on Labor Day so for 4 hours I have to work.
Then I really got to thinking.
Who else will be working? People with dead-end jobs, thankless jobs, lousy jobs: the hotel cleaning crews, the restaurant workers, the retail workers - those folks who are all but invisible to the rest of us. People we do not tip well even though we can afford it and they are barely scraping by.
The unseen, underappreciated, hard-working folks will all be out there Labor Day is just another Monday for them. The lucky ones will get "holiday pay" but most won't.
If Labor Day is to honor the Working Man, an acknowledgement to those who toil and sweat and who "made this country what it is today" why are we asking those who today toil and sweat and get sworn at to work on a day that should be honoring them?
Why would they have to wait on us in stores and restaurants? Why should they have to make our beds and clean up after us? We get to go out and enjoy the day, shouldn't they?
So when you are out shopping, or eating or vacationing in that wonderful hotel think of the people who are making your enjoyment possible, tip them like you mean it, say thank you.
If we don't do at least that much, how can we in all good conscience call this Monday Labor Day?
Then I really got to thinking.
Who else will be working? People with dead-end jobs, thankless jobs, lousy jobs: the hotel cleaning crews, the restaurant workers, the retail workers - those folks who are all but invisible to the rest of us. People we do not tip well even though we can afford it and they are barely scraping by.
The unseen, underappreciated, hard-working folks will all be out there Labor Day is just another Monday for them. The lucky ones will get "holiday pay" but most won't.
If Labor Day is to honor the Working Man, an acknowledgement to those who toil and sweat and who "made this country what it is today" why are we asking those who today toil and sweat and get sworn at to work on a day that should be honoring them?
Why would they have to wait on us in stores and restaurants? Why should they have to make our beds and clean up after us? We get to go out and enjoy the day, shouldn't they?
So when you are out shopping, or eating or vacationing in that wonderful hotel think of the people who are making your enjoyment possible, tip them like you mean it, say thank you.
If we don't do at least that much, how can we in all good conscience call this Monday Labor Day?
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