I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Friday, November 26th.

And now, a call-in for retail workers ahead of Black Friday, the other thing that we observe many people do this week,

what do you expect work to be like for you on Friday? And what would you like your customers

to know before they show up? You know, there are so many stories of people just being rude this

year in restaurants and in stores that we thought you might like

the chance to preempt some of that, at least for Brian Lairshel listeners who, okay, they are

polite.

You're a polite group, I think, unusually polite as society goes in general.

But not everybody.

So if you're working retail on Friday, tell our Brian Lairshel listeners,

your fellow Brian Laird shell listeners,

what you would like them to hear before they show up in your Black Friday stores.

What do you expect work to be like for you on Friday and what would you

like your customers to know before they show up? Or are you planning to call in sick or even go out on

strike? And I ask that part of the question because there's been so much news this year about

disruptions in the supply chain that'll complicate Black Friday and Cyber Monday,

but here's another possible disruption. Workers strikes. Have you heard this yet?

Amazon workers in 20 countries plan to strike on Friday as part of a Make Amazon Pay campaign

to improve working conditions. There's talk of

other retail worker strikes as well, like the Black Friday blackout. One of them is called.

And all of this, of course, happens against the backdrop of the Great Resignation, where so many

retail workers have quit their jobs, quit in droves this

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