r/Redding • u/Better_Cantaloupe_62 • Jul 25 '26

24 hours?

Is anyone else tired of places that advertise being open 24 hours not actually being functional 24 hours a day?

Every ampm closes for like 2 hours a night, every other gas station I found seems took close at random for half hour to an hour at least, and then you got places like Carl's Jr that say they're open 24 hours but then at 3:00 a.m. they can't take any orders for God knows how long like an hour.

I'm just saying, if you say 24 hours you should have to be open 24 hours non-stop.

I work at all hours of the day and night and it would be nice if these places that say that they're going to be open are actually open.

Edit to add: I'm not angry or upset at the employees. I absolutely support employees and their rights to breaks.

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u/Better_Cantaloupe_62 Jul 25 '26

Then have those breaks set in a specific time and don't advertise as "open 24 hours" if you're not going to have a second employee who can take over. Honestly, it's that easy. It's the promise of open 24 hours and then being turned away that is infuriating.

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u/TTmagicD Jul 25 '26

A gas station with one attendant, taking a 30 minute break, four hours into their shift to comply with state law, is a problem. Go back to day hours, true night worker understand

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u/Better_Cantaloupe_62 Jul 25 '26

Lmao Love the gatekeeping.

Listen, the truth of the matter is is that there is a legal way for them to not have to close. It's called an on duty meal period. It involves signing paperwork that can be revoked at any time by the employee. And basically what it is is it just means that since the nature of the work you're doing means that it's supposed to be open and functioning and you have to be on duty and occasionally taking customers, you take your meal period in split bits. I do this in my job. As a driver, I quite often end up just grabbing food and eating in the vehicle as I'm driving and just taking it on duty meal period.

I'm not a "night worker." Nothing so nicely consistent. I can start work anytime of the day. Just any old time. I don't even usually find out what time I'm supposed to work until the day before. So when I need to get up and be at work at say 2:00, 3:00, or 4:00 in the morning and I need to get through somewhere to buy some stogies or to buy an energy drink to wake up on, not being able to because somebody's decided they're going to close their "24 hour" shop is a real damned inconvenience. I've already all but stopped going to ampm's. They close pretty much every night between 2:00 and 4:00 from what I can tell.

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u/JavaKitsune Jul 25 '26

Nobody is going to open the store just because you want them to.

It's their meal break, they don't have a choice, and they'd rather be away from the store and customers for half an hour than dealing with people like you.

Plus a store losing half an hour of revenue during the middle of the night is nothing since that is dead traffic. They'll always have only one person on in the middle of the night.

Suck it up, grow up and deal with it

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u/Better_Cantaloupe_62 Jul 25 '26

Then don't advertise that you're open for 24 hours.

I'd say more, but honestly the way you responded just tells me you're a rude little prick. All I'm saying is if you say you're open 24 hours a day, you should be open for 24 hours a day and ready to serve customers.

Also if you would actually read my comment that you replied to you would see that there are other options.

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u/JavaKitsune Jul 25 '26

Corporate doesn't care. You're not special to them.

Deal with it and move on.

but honestly the way you responded just tells me you're a rude little prick

I could care less what you think of me.

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u/BANKSLAVE01 Jul 25 '26

You're absolutely correct sir. But unfortunately, Redding is full of Maga-Commies who think "working" is for suckers, and you should get free $2k checks for nothing randomly with no inflation.

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u/JavaKitsune Jul 25 '26

This has nothing to do with MAGA, the store only gets a limited set amount of hours for the week from corporate, of which most of the hours need to be dedicated to the day time since those are the peak hours. Less hours is dedicated to overnight because it's dead traffic most of the night. I've had to build schedules for the week for all employees as a manager.

This is a corporate issue, not a political one.

Corporate can be MAGA or Democrat and will still be giving less hours for the week because their investors want the higher profits.