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shadowlightThank God It's Black Friday No Longer
November 28th, 2009
They are cutting hours at work, my dept of three men, anyway. during the holiday season. This evening, I spent 45 minutes trying to find merchandise that various customers wanted to buy that wasn't on the shelves, because at 8pm on Black Friday, we had _no one_ working in Grocery. I'm not even in Sales or Stocking. I'm a janitor...but I've got a work ethic that says that if someone needs powdered sugar to leave the store happy, I should see if it's within my power to make that happen. (Less luck with Danactive Strawberry Yogurt Drink that we apparently really were out of...I think. The Dairy Cooler was packed, and there was only so much I could dig through without making a mess of the place. )
Amazed how quickly(?) 'Black Friday' has become the publicly known/accepted name of the day after Thanksgiving, as if it were its own holiday, like Fat Tuesday or Easter Sunday. Are there holidays that don't stand for anything? Are there holidays that stand for bad things like greed and gluttony? Are there rules for what can be a holiday, or just whatever you can sucker the majority into celebrating?
November 28th, 2009
They are cutting hours at work, my dept of three men, anyway. during the holiday season. This evening, I spent 45 minutes trying to find merchandise that various customers wanted to buy that wasn't on the shelves, because at 8pm on Black Friday, we had _no one_ working in Grocery. I'm not even in Sales or Stocking. I'm a janitor...but I've got a work ethic that says that if someone needs powdered sugar to leave the store happy, I should see if it's within my power to make that happen. (Less luck with Danactive Strawberry Yogurt Drink that we apparently really were out of...I think. The Dairy Cooler was packed, and there was only so much I could dig through without making a mess of the place. )
Amazed how quickly(?) 'Black Friday' has become the publicly known/accepted name of the day after Thanksgiving, as if it were its own holiday, like Fat Tuesday or Easter Sunday. Are there holidays that don't stand for anything? Are there holidays that stand for bad things like greed and gluttony? Are there rules for what can be a holiday, or just whatever you can sucker the majority into celebrating?