Jobs that are acceptable on Thanksgiving:

• air traffic controller
• soldier
• police, emt, doctor, nurse
• grocery store employees
• gas station attendant
• wait staff, cooks, and management at many restaurants
• 5K run coordinator
• Football player (pro or college) plus thousands of stadium employees and hundreds of sportscasters
• reporter, news anchor, meteorologist, support staff at hundreds of television stations
• toll booth attendant
• thousands of data center operators that keep the internet, OMG Facebook, twitter and yes this blog functioning
• utility workers that keep the lights on and toilets flushing
• airline pilots, flight attendants, luggage handlers, maintenance staff, airport employees
• bus drivers, truck drivers, taxi drivers, you name it all kinds of drivers
• thousands more

Jobs that are not acceptable on Thanksgiving:

• retail employees, because they “need to spend time with their families.”