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by hackunomatter 3316 days ago
Typically you get 2 weeks of vacation a year. That's 4% of the cost. Not a significant amount.

As for work outside store hours: sure, there is some. But it's not a restaurant where you have to sterilize everything in the kitchen. It's a bookstore. At most you have to sweep the floors, maybe re-shelf some misplaced books, and shelf the newcomers. It's not a tremendous amount of work that has to be done before opening or after close.

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I'm sure your armchair math is much more valid and accurate than their own projections. You should go over there and shower them with your perfect knowledge of the inner workings of their business.
That is assuming they're telling the truth. Won't be the first time a business blames "overpaid labor" for its woes.
>Typically you get 2 weeks of vacation a year

Even for those who work 10 years for a company, like Borderlands has?

I also don't think you've run retail operations at any sort of scale, given your comments.