Do you think a holiday meal at work would make up for having to work on thanksgiving?

No it doesn’t make up for when working in retail. I was working as a greeter when Walmart decided the first year to stay open all Thanksgiving day. They had too many employees working, a lot of off-duty cops to guard the doors to keep people from running through the. Doors with unpaid-for merchandise. They did give a good dinner with a large rack of desserts that we could help ourselves too. The atmosphere was more like a funeral dinner than a Thanksgiving dinner. Walmart Walton’s just showed everyone how we rated with them when they decided to stay open on Thanksgiving. And it’s just like the manager remarked to me when the crowds started pouring into the store. There was nothing that night on sale that they couldn’t have gotten online for the same price had they made the effort.