Mentioning pay equity by including overpaid NFL players (and brain damaged ex-jock analysts) in the same discussion with work-a-day Americans slaving on the retail floor is about as tone-deaf as it gets. Carron... read the room, dude.
Oh please. He makes 60 million dollars a year!!!! These guys are wildly overpaid as it is. I’m not too worried about this “injustice” while there are people without food and medical care.
Don't feel sorry at all. How many of them are actually contributing to causes that help people? NO ONE should be paid what they are being paid to play a game. Get real
C'mon, get real. These players earn a fortune. Many seem to waste plenty of it on drugs, gambling, sex. Then there's the conspcuous consumption of homes, cars, jewelry. And you want us to feel sorry for them because they have to work on a holiday? What about the nurses, aides, firefighters, EMTs. Their OT is well deserved. But grown man playing a boys' game? Sheesh!
PS: I'm surprised this essay even made it past The Contrarian board or whoever selects issues to be addressed in their offering.
Well, at least the author redeemed himself somewhat with the final three (or so) paragraphs, but it took too long to get there.
This essay would have been much more powerful, and created more impact, if the order of paragraphs had been reversed, and the lead tweaked to say, "Overpaid athletes should get on their knees and be grateful for what they have, and they should give up their day's pay to help others".
I don't feel sorry for them. I feel sorry for all the stadium workers etc who also miss Thanksgiving. THEY are the ones who deserve big bonuses for working on holidays.
Telling millionaires they should get holiday pay, particularly with the number of people who could lose everything before this NFL season is over is a column for a non-Trumpian year. This year it's tone-deaf!
IDGAF about the NFL players/coaches. They're all overpaid. The stadium workers need more money. The food vendors need the money. The average employee at a store setting up for Black Friday needs that money.
Give the cashier/bagger/shelf-stocker at the grocery store/pharmacy/local fast food place a wage that means they have enough to eat, weather-appropriate clothes, and a roof over their head. Many live with 3-4 generations and still can't make ends meet.
Imagine losing out on Thanksgiving with your loved ones because you have to set up for Black Friday. Sure, the stores open to the public at 8 am...but that means you, the employee, are there on Thanksgiving, around dinner time, and at 6 am on Friday to set up...along with those who wait in line overnight for the deals.
Give the doctors, nurses, and first responders who are working a raise. They are losing out on time with family. That oncologist is checking in on patients instead of being with their family. Those med school students and nurses are with patients. I don't recommend eating hospital food on Thanksgiving, especially in the form of a liquid diet, because of oncology surgery.
It's a National Day of Mourning tomorrow. Friday should be a national Day of Embarrassment instead of being called Black Friday.
I agree with the last part of article about hourly wage earners, but I draw the line way before professional sports teams! They are absurdly overpaid as it is. As a lifelong Cowboys fan, I like Dak, but I’m not sorry that, as highest paid player in the league (I think), he doesn’t get paid overtime. I think he’ll be just fine with only his standard pay.
Since most of their job is performed on sundays and holidays uh why? Should they get more because they can’t get to church ‘cause they work on Sundays? Good thing I’m not in charge. I don’t think they should get paid all, but I admit I’m not a football fan.
The NFL players who are required to work on Thanksgiving should be paid extra or receive some kind of compensation just like any other American who is required to work on Thanksgiving by their employer.
Mentioning pay equity by including overpaid NFL players (and brain damaged ex-jock analysts) in the same discussion with work-a-day Americans slaving on the retail floor is about as tone-deaf as it gets. Carron... read the room, dude.
Oh please. He makes 60 million dollars a year!!!! These guys are wildly overpaid as it is. I’m not too worried about this “injustice” while there are people without food and medical care.
Don't feel sorry at all. How many of them are actually contributing to causes that help people? NO ONE should be paid what they are being paid to play a game. Get real
C'mon, get real. These players earn a fortune. Many seem to waste plenty of it on drugs, gambling, sex. Then there's the conspcuous consumption of homes, cars, jewelry. And you want us to feel sorry for them because they have to work on a holiday? What about the nurses, aides, firefighters, EMTs. Their OT is well deserved. But grown man playing a boys' game? Sheesh!
PS: I'm surprised this essay even made it past The Contrarian board or whoever selects issues to be addressed in their offering.
I honestly thought this article was satire at first!
Well, at least the author redeemed himself somewhat with the final three (or so) paragraphs, but it took too long to get there.
This essay would have been much more powerful, and created more impact, if the order of paragraphs had been reversed, and the lead tweaked to say, "Overpaid athletes should get on their knees and be grateful for what they have, and they should give up their day's pay to help others".
I don't feel sorry for them. I feel sorry for all the stadium workers etc who also miss Thanksgiving. THEY are the ones who deserve big bonuses for working on holidays.
Telling millionaires they should get holiday pay, particularly with the number of people who could lose everything before this NFL season is over is a column for a non-Trumpian year. This year it's tone-deaf!
Oh those poor underpaid footballers. Hopefully this is satire. Otherwise, what a joke this is.
IDGAF about the NFL players/coaches. They're all overpaid. The stadium workers need more money. The food vendors need the money. The average employee at a store setting up for Black Friday needs that money.
Give the cashier/bagger/shelf-stocker at the grocery store/pharmacy/local fast food place a wage that means they have enough to eat, weather-appropriate clothes, and a roof over their head. Many live with 3-4 generations and still can't make ends meet.
Imagine losing out on Thanksgiving with your loved ones because you have to set up for Black Friday. Sure, the stores open to the public at 8 am...but that means you, the employee, are there on Thanksgiving, around dinner time, and at 6 am on Friday to set up...along with those who wait in line overnight for the deals.
Give the doctors, nurses, and first responders who are working a raise. They are losing out on time with family. That oncologist is checking in on patients instead of being with their family. Those med school students and nurses are with patients. I don't recommend eating hospital food on Thanksgiving, especially in the form of a liquid diet, because of oncology surgery.
It's a National Day of Mourning tomorrow. Friday should be a national Day of Embarrassment instead of being called Black Friday.
I agree with the last part of article about hourly wage earners, but I draw the line way before professional sports teams! They are absurdly overpaid as it is. As a lifelong Cowboys fan, I like Dak, but I’m not sorry that, as highest paid player in the league (I think), he doesn’t get paid overtime. I think he’ll be just fine with only his standard pay.
These guys are multimillionaires. They get paid to entertain us.
Absolutely Carron they should! If my father was still here today he would help them organize a union.
Since most of their job is performed on sundays and holidays uh why? Should they get more because they can’t get to church ‘cause they work on Sundays? Good thing I’m not in charge. I don’t think they should get paid all, but I admit I’m not a football fan.
The NFL players who are required to work on Thanksgiving should be paid extra or receive some kind of compensation just like any other American who is required to work on Thanksgiving by their employer.