How Many Sign Company Owners and Managers Work Over Thanksgiving?

QUESTION:

Do you perform any work for your company during the four-day Thanksgiving weekend, even if the company is officially closed?

Yes: 62%

• We have weekly clients whose projects are due out for delivery the following Monday. — David Kaiser, Digitype Design, Tualatin, OR
• If it’s there to be done, I do it. — Paul Botting, ProSource Signs, Derry, NH
• We run service trucks and installs depending on the workload from the beginning of the week. — Brandon Goldmintz, Perspective1, Lutz, FL
• If I have to, based on work in progress and deadlines, but the majority of the staff will not work. — Andrew Akers, Image360 DC-Silver Spring, Kensington, MD
• We’re not officially closed on the Friday following Thanksgiving; however, the last couple of years I have made it a bonus day off if we achieve a certain goal leading up to that Friday. — Jess Otte, Fastsigns of Columbus, Columbus, IN
• An owner’s job — no matter how hard you try to get away — never ends. — Jeremy Vanderkraats, Signs by Van, Salinas, CA

No: 38%

• We are encouraged to take time with our families during the holidays [but] if there was something urgent that needed to be taken care of, I would have no problem doing so! — Jamie Potvin, Metro Sign & Awning, Tewksbury, MA
• The relentless list of things to do never ends so I have to purposefully choose to not work during those times to take time to rest and spend time with my family. — Jennifer Dew, JED Graphics and Sign Design Inc., Thomasville, NC
• It’s one of the extended weekends that we officially take off from work. — Greg Abbott, Abbott Image Solutions, Wilmington, OH

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What menu items typically play a part in your main Thanksgiving meal? (Check all that apply)

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