Liam Sweeny's Blog - Posts Tagged "black"
Black Friday Mayhem
Okay, so I stayed home on Black Friday. I also stayed home on "Grey Thursday" (a.k.a. Thanksgiving) and unfortunately, I'll be online on Cyber Monday (but with the tax office, so I should be okay.)
Whew! Police pepper-sprayin' folks in an Odessa, TX Walmart, some melee in a mall somewhere that involved a Taser... a shopper's taser, not a cop's... And ya know what? No one got arrested in that last incident!
I saw a herd of shoppers running into a store like a tsunami wave, grabbing up white boxes with no labeling on them. They could've put dog-shit in those boxes, and people would wrestle each other over them (If it was my store, I TOTALLY would've done that... guess that's why I can't get a shot at management.)
I wonder if people factor in the hospital bills that come with that 20% off.
If you want to be a Black Friday rodeo rider, fine by me. But this Thanksgiving, "grey Thursday" is crap. Screws with the natural order of things. If you work a chain convenience store, you're boned. But you were always boned. Same with cops, fireman, EMS, boned, but knowingly so. But now basically everybody's boned now that works retail.
So what was I thankful for on Thanksgiving> Not working retail. And my Christmas wish? To get more sales and reviews for my latest book (sorry, writers gotta eat.) But my New Years resolution is to never ever bother people who shouldn't have to work because some marketing geniuses think they can scrape a little extra scratch when people wake up from their turkey comas.
Whew! Police pepper-sprayin' folks in an Odessa, TX Walmart, some melee in a mall somewhere that involved a Taser... a shopper's taser, not a cop's... And ya know what? No one got arrested in that last incident!
I saw a herd of shoppers running into a store like a tsunami wave, grabbing up white boxes with no labeling on them. They could've put dog-shit in those boxes, and people would wrestle each other over them (If it was my store, I TOTALLY would've done that... guess that's why I can't get a shot at management.)
I wonder if people factor in the hospital bills that come with that 20% off.
If you want to be a Black Friday rodeo rider, fine by me. But this Thanksgiving, "grey Thursday" is crap. Screws with the natural order of things. If you work a chain convenience store, you're boned. But you were always boned. Same with cops, fireman, EMS, boned, but knowingly so. But now basically everybody's boned now that works retail.
So what was I thankful for on Thanksgiving> Not working retail. And my Christmas wish? To get more sales and reviews for my latest book (sorry, writers gotta eat.) But my New Years resolution is to never ever bother people who shouldn't have to work because some marketing geniuses think they can scrape a little extra scratch when people wake up from their turkey comas.
