I have 5 shops for Easter Sunday. Do you do shops on Easter?

I would if it was allowed. It will say in the instructions if shops are forbidden on holidays.

No, it's a personal blackout day that I don't agree with shopping people on. You're not going to see store employees at their best.

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Not sure that I've ever done it, but I have no qualms with doing it. Fwiw, I don't celebrate Easter. It's just another Sunday to me. Wait, I take that back. Lots of snowbirds leave right after Easter. Yay, Easter!

Many shops do not allow a shop on a holiday. If they do allow it, I would take one as I do not celebrate Easter. That being said, I turned down a brunch shop opportunity as I think that place will be a madhouse on Easter and I would rather not get caught up in all that.

I might do some gas station audits on Easter.. I really don't think the holiday will have any meaningful bearing on what I encounter and observe at the stations.

I would, no day is sacred because it is a 'day'. The days I want off, I take off.

Not everyone celebrates holidays, especially Christian holidays.

I'm doing a brunch with reservation shop at a place that is normally not very busy during those hours. So far they have wide open availability. I'm also doing a quick serve shop in a heavily Jewish part of town that probably won't be impacted by the holiday.

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I have done them. It is a big travel day and highway travel centers can be a madhouse.

I don't.

No

No.

@KA047 wrote:

No, it's a personal blackout day that I don't agree with shopping people on. You're not going to see store employees at their best.

Can you expand on that? I don't see any connection...

FWIS, there are all kinds of people who normally work on Sundays and do not believe in the holiday.

Why would you insinuate they would not be "at their best" just because you choose not to work on a particular Sunday?

@CoolMusic. I am not at my best if I have to work on a holiday because I want to be with my family. Some may be just as happy to work on a holiday as on another day, but many don't get the choice

I see most holidays as just having been taken over by consumerism. I would never have dreamed of getting a gift at Easter as a child, just candy. Now Easter has become like a second Christmas for many. This overconsumption is bad for humanity.

@prince wrote:

@CoolMusic. I am not at my best if I have to work on a holiday because I want to be with my family. Some may be just as happy to work on a holiday as on another day, but many don't get the choice

The use of "some" is in order here, for anyone who is exactly like you and would be upset at having to work on a day that is only meaningful to a minority of the earth's inhabitants.

To imply that nobody would be at their best working today is just plain wrong.

I will be out and about today looking for tainted dog food at stores of 2 major retailers.

@prince wrote:

@CoolMusic. I am not at my best if I have to work on a holiday because I want to be with my family. Some may be just as happy to work on a holiday as on another day, but many don't get the choice

Pretty much this.
They may also have family that traveled to their location for the day that they want to see. They accept that they work, but they may be getting more text messages that day than a typical Sunday that are first and foremost on their mind, for example. Yes, there are many out there not celebrating, but I don't know who's celebrating and not celebrating.

If I was a manager and we got shopped on Easter, I'm ripping up the report and letting corporate know why. I am a former AGM of an establishment before I began shopping that did get shopped (and typically did very well). It would have been a blackout date for that company, and for good reason.

To each their own.

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@mjt9598 wrote:

Not everyone celebrates holidays, especially Christian holidays.

Correct. But I don't know who celebrates and who doesn't.
Just like I don't know who's celebrating the first day of Ramadan, or Diwali, but being mindful of when those holidays are is something I may keep in mind if I'm at an establishment that may be staffed by someone who celebrates them.

If the client is OK with locations being shopped on any given day then I'm good doing it, and will report objectively because that is my job.

Customer service should not suffer regardless of how an employee is feeling about themselves at any given time on any given day.

If you are on the clock you should be doing your job, and if you are not and get caught, you should be held accountable. That's the whole point of this business...

This whole whine about I want to be with family but the big mean boss made me work is just laughable FWIS, and some of the viewpoints expressed here border on ethnocentrism.

I hit 7 of my 10 claimed dog food recalls today. The other brand of big box involved in the recall in my area was closed for the holiday. The big plus to working today was those stores were relatively dead, making it a breeze to navigate

Communications from the company mentioned that brand, and a couple of major grocery brands, would be closed, and not to schedule visits until tomorrow.

Saw staff at all locations for whom this day obviously means nothing at all (I'll let y'all figure it out). Given the ethnic/religious makeup of this country, only a bad manager would not make every effort to set staffing accordingly on days that might conflict with the beliefs of a sector of their employee pool.

And I received exemplary service today when I stopped to grab a bite after wrapping up my route. Family or not, religious belief or not, my server was going to be cranking out the tips today, making them quite happy in the grand scheme of things I'm sure.

Except for not coming around with enough coffee (slammed or not, that's an issue for me), had the establishment been shopped they would have scored extremely well.

Interestingly, the recall company had at least one rep working in the office today.

Their self-scheduling setup is not implemented well at all, with no capability for expanding the search range. As such, I reached out to the project manager via email expressing my interest in doing more locations in my market area, hopefully getting them added for Tuesday when I'll be doing the stops I could not do today.

I received a phone call from a service rep while I was out and about, and was able to book out a full day's route for Tuesday.

All in all, I had a fabulous holiday that has its roots in Paganism. You?



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@CoolMusic wrote:

All in all, I had a fabulous holiday that has its roots in Paganism. You?

Great! I enjoyed my first day off from this since March 22.