Originally Posted by dcutcher

of the gratitude due the vast majority of UA employees I've had the good luck to fly with, still, it should be noted that working on holidays nets them special pay.
SO one might speculate, or assume or surmise---possibly all three---that by working that day they might just be trying to put food on tables, theirs and their pax', instead of moiling in aluminum tubing on 11/25, out of a sense of altruism, and thereby be deserving of special regard.
I said it.
I won't be working on Thanksgiving Day either, but will be, the day following, in an R&D environment with (probably) insufficient security.