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I have witnessed the folks on this site being nitty, but this is just a whole new level. Because a company gave all of their employees the day off, they have to

I have witnessed the folks on this site being nitty, but this is just a whole new level. Because a company gave all of their employees the day off, they have to either take their website down or be called hypocrites by some HN user...? How on earth is this a remotely sensible position to take?

thrownaway2424 11y ago
You can't get upset every time someone is being obtuse on the Internet.
- ryguytilidie 11y ago
  I'm not upset at all. I simply asked if this was a rational position...?
jonah 11y ago
Not terribly germane to this this OP but there are people who "close" their online stores at times. One example is B&H Photo - http://www.bhphotovideo.com/ http://www.bhphotovideo.com/ On the footer of their pages it says: "Please note that B&H does not process web orders from Friday evening to Saturday evening." I would assume that in the sect of Judaism the owners belong to letting your site take orders constitutes work. Another example is my Girlfriend - she closes her Etsy shop when she goes on vacation because she'd rather not take orders and have customers wait for her to return for them to be fulfilled.
- ceejayoz 11y ago
  WordPress.com's support ticket system used to have business hours. Very baffling.
- Eric_WVGG 11y ago
  “assume” oh goodness you have no idea. I live in the Brooklyn Hasidic neighborhood. A couple weeks ago, one of the gentlemen flagged me down on a Friday night. He needed me, a complete stranger, to come into his home at 11pm, go down to the basement, and push the "open" button on his dryer so his wife could retrieve clean towels for their (many) children. Operating a machine of any kind, to the extent of pushing a button, constitutes work in their culture. There’s a whole wikipedia page about the ongoing controversy over whether it’s okay to use light switches during Shabbat or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_on_Shabbat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_on_Shabbat (they thanked me with a slice of cake, which was nice)
  - jonah 11y ago
    Great anecdote! He just needs some sort of Rube Goldberg device to do it for him. There's the whole Shabbat Technology industry - finding Kosher ways of using modern conveniences in accordance with the Sabbath laws.[1] For example, these folks make a bunch of devices: http://www.zomet.org.il/eng/ http://www.zomet.org.il/eng/ [1] I'm reminded of the non-electric tools the Amish adapt and use. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/02/22/172626089/inside-an-amish-trade-show http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/02/22/172626089/insid...
- ukyrgf 11y ago
  I work for two large ecommerce stores that only do things during EST business hours. The post office comes at around 4 PM and that's it for the night/weekend. I don't think any customer has ever had a problem with that, since the company is very Made-in-America/family values oriented.
latj 11y ago
Oh, you ain't seen nothing yet. Am I the only one disturbed by the fact thats not all one mountain image that we are scaling down as we scroll? its just one photo after the next and the falling into the white void with CEO letter. NITTY!
e12e 11y ago
There's no pleasing some people. I'm reminded of: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/11/cards-against-humanity-calls-bull-on-black-friday-sells-cow-feces/ http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/11/cards-against-humanity... As I recall they sold out of bullshit rather quickly. Obviously these are just two variations of public relations, and as they say, if you can get people talking about your brand, that's good publicity. I still think it's a great idea to give people the day off. It's a business, why would we demand they go out of their way to turn away (on-line) customers too?

thrownaway2424 11y ago

You can't get upset every time someone is being obtuse on the Internet.

ryguytilidie 11y ago
I'm not upset at all. I simply asked if this was a rational position...?

jonah 11y ago

Not terribly germane to this this OP but there are people who "close" their online stores at times. One example is B&H Photo - http://www.bhphotovideo.com/ http://www.bhphotovideo.com/ On the footer of their pages it says: "Please note that B&H does not process web orders from Friday evening to Saturday evening." I would assume that in the sect of Judaism the owners belong to letting your site take orders constitutes work. Another example is my Girlfriend - she closes her Etsy shop when she goes on vacation because she'd rather not take orders and have customers wait for her to return for them to be fulfilled.

ceejayoz 11y ago
WordPress.com's support ticket system used to have business hours. Very baffling.
Eric_WVGG 11y ago
“assume” oh goodness you have no idea. I live in the Brooklyn Hasidic neighborhood. A couple weeks ago, one of the gentlemen flagged me down on a Friday night. He needed me, a complete stranger, to come into his home at 11pm, go down to the basement, and push the "open" button on his dryer so his wife could retrieve clean towels for their (many) children. Operating a machine of any kind, to the extent of pushing a button, constitutes work in their culture. There’s a whole wikipedia page about the ongoing controversy over whether it’s okay to use light switches during Shabbat or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_on_Shabbat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_on_Shabbat (they thanked me with a slice of cake, which was nice)
- jonah 11y ago
  Great anecdote! He just needs some sort of Rube Goldberg device to do it for him. There's the whole Shabbat Technology industry - finding Kosher ways of using modern conveniences in accordance with the Sabbath laws.[1] For example, these folks make a bunch of devices: http://www.zomet.org.il/eng/ http://www.zomet.org.il/eng/ [1] I'm reminded of the non-electric tools the Amish adapt and use. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/02/22/172626089/inside-an-amish-trade-show http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/02/22/172626089/insid...
ukyrgf 11y ago
I work for two large ecommerce stores that only do things during EST business hours. The post office comes at around 4 PM and that's it for the night/weekend. I don't think any customer has ever had a problem with that, since the company is very Made-in-America/family values oriented.

latj 11y ago

Oh, you ain't seen nothing yet. Am I the only one disturbed by the fact thats not all one mountain image that we are scaling down as we scroll? its just one photo after the next and the falling into the white void with CEO letter. NITTY!

e12e 11y ago

There's no pleasing some people. I'm reminded of: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/11/cards-against-humanity-calls-bull-on-black-friday-sells-cow-feces/ http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/11/cards-against-humanity... As I recall they sold out of bullshit rather quickly. Obviously these are just two variations of public relations, and as they say, if you can get people talking about your brand, that's good publicity. I still think it's a great idea to give people the day off. It's a business, why would we demand they go out of their way to turn away (on-line) customers too?