Working On Thanksgiving? Reasons To Be Grateful : NPR
JENNIFER LUDDEN
JENNIFER LUDDEN  HOST:
 LUDDEN : Now  does your family kind of resent this or are they OK?
 LUDDEN : I see.
 LUDDEN : Right. Now  you - to be fair  the news business is a lot different from the retail business. I mean probably more a quiet day for you; you're kind of trying to gin up some news on Thanksgiving aside from the turkeys. It's kind of different.
 LUDDEN : Let 's  get a caller in on the line here. We've got J.D. in Woodstock  Virginia. Hi  J.D.
 LUDDEN : Good. Go right ahead.
 LUDDEN : A-ha. You don't get a day off  do you?
 LUDDEN : So you try to give yourself a little something to make the most of  it ?
 LUDDEN : All right.
 LUDDEN : All right. Well  J.D.  thanks for sharing. I appreciate it and Happy Thanksgiving.
 LUDDEN : All right. We've got a few emails here. Liz writes in: I worked for a retail job for a while and Black Friday was mandatory to keep your job. My family was upset that I had to leave early from or missed gatherings. In fact  this is the first Thanksgiving I'll get to go in the past three years. However  the customers for the early shift were cheerful  courteous and not yet exhausted and stressed. It was not the worse sales day of the year. And if it were optional  I would take the extra hours and extra pay  since I don't have kids of my own. It's much harder for people with families to care for.
 LUDDEN : So is that what you mean by making adjustments? You kind of shift it to the day before?
 LUDDEN : There you go. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. And we have another caller  Mike in Cincinnati  Ohio. Hi  Mike.
 LUDDEN : Good. What's your story?
 LUDDEN : And let's get another call here. Dan is in Chicago. Hi  Dan.
 LUDDEN : Go right ahead.
[TGT]  HOST:
 LUDDEN : Now  does your family kind of resent this or are they OK?
 LUDDEN : I see.
 LUDDEN : Right. Now  you - to be fair  the news business is a lot different from the retail business. I mean probably more a quiet day for you; you're kind of trying to gin up some news on Thanksgiving aside from the turkeys. It's kind of different.
 LUDDEN : Let 's  get a caller in on the line here. We've got J.D. in Woodstock  Virginia. Hi  J.D.
 LUDDEN : Good. Go right ahead.
 LUDDEN : A-ha. You don't get a day off  do you?
 LUDDEN : So you try to give yourself a little something to make the most of  it ?
 LUDDEN : All right.
 LUDDEN : All right. Well  J.D.  thanks for sharing. I appreciate it and Happy Thanksgiving.
 LUDDEN : All right. We've got a few emails here. Liz writes in: I worked for a retail job for a while and Black Friday was mandatory to keep your job. My family was upset that I had to leave early from or missed gatherings. In fact  this is the first Thanksgiving I'll get to go in the past three years. However  the customers for the early shift were cheerful  courteous and not yet exhausted and stressed. It was not the worse sales day of the year. And if it were optional  I would take the extra hours and extra pay  since I don't have kids of my own. It's much harder for people with families to care for.
 LUDDEN : So is that what you mean by making adjustments? You kind of shift it to the day before?
 LUDDEN : There you go. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. And we have another caller  Mike in Cincinnati  Ohio. Hi  Mike.
 LUDDEN : Good. What's your story?
 LUDDEN : And let's get another call here. Dan is in Chicago. Hi  Dan.
 LUDDEN : Go right ahead.