Black Thursday Rant

Bob_Luken
Bob_Luken Posts: 11,643 ✭✭✭✭✭
in Non Cigar Related
Just saw a walmart ad that made me hate retailers more. The scene is at home thanksgiving day. Everyone is relaxing after the big feast. (Cue the music) It's James Brown - Get up off-a that thing! In other words "get up off-a that azz and get down to wally-world on Thanksgiving Day". They even interrupt grandpa from his chill time on the front porch. (Grandpa's a dummy for going along with the charade.) I feel sorry for the retail workers. I feel sorry for anyone who has grown up in the era of Black Friday Blowout sales with brawls and humans trampled. :(

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  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thank you.  I was thinking of adding "Black Friday" to the Things I Hate thread, but this will do nicely.
    WARNING:  The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme.  Proceed at your own risk.  

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • GoCards
    GoCards Posts: 146 ✭✭✭
    I agree.  I think it's ridiculous when families (including ours, unfortunately) have to plan dinner around members having to leave to go to retail jobs on a holiday.  Won't those sales be there the next three weeks?

    We just skip the whole shopping thing and put up the decorations on Friday.  Even trying to run a short errand that whole weekend is miserable due to traffic.  In the end it just pushes more sales online for people who don't want to put up with the aggravation.

  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A couple of the local grocery stores put it to a vote with their workers and the opted to be open until noon on thanksgiving.

    I don't think anything should be open on holidays. The way it used to be.
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,360 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Agree with this rant, Thursday shouldn't be focused on Shopping, and neither should Friday.  I'll be celebrating Green Friday at a California State Park, 13,000 free day pass tickets were given away and I'll be taking the family to Sunset Beach near Watsonville this Friday.  Some of my girls may be working, though.   :/


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  • Guitarded
    Guitarded Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Try working at a casino. What is a holiday?!?!
    Friends don't let good friends smoke cheap cigars.
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yakster said:
    Agree with this rant, Thursday shouldn't be focused on Shopping, and neither should Friday.  I'll be celebrating Green Friday at a California State Park, 13,000 free day pass tickets were given away and I'll be taking the family to Sunset Beach near Watsonville this Friday.  Some of my girls may be working, though.   :/


    Nice. My child bride and I have camped at Sunset Beach with our trailer. That part of the coast is beautiful. Seacliff State Beach at Aptos was our favorite place. 

    I herfed at Seacliff with @Kingofthecove many times and Jiunn
    joined us a couple times. I loves me summa dat coast.....  :p
  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,643 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://youtu.be/BZFEDZrD_Vg
  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,643 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://youtu.be/YlS-i0UiFvA
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,474 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Martel said:
    Not retail, but I worked at a movie theater for years.  I left in part because if I heard one more person say "it must stink that you have to work on a holiday" I might have done something that disqualified me from being a minister.
    who has to work the Sabbath and some holidays.....
  • Bigshizza
    Bigshizza Posts: 15,659 ✭✭✭✭✭
    All the hype for what? How many people just buying for themselves. I used to work retail but in those days we closed on the holidays. I never shop at Walmart and I feel sorry for all the employees that have to work.
  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2016
    I start my Christmas shopping in September. I am finished by the ist week in November and most of it is done online. I do not go near a B&M store of any kind until January, unless its for food. Black Friday sales should end, it brings out the worst in too many people. And I don't feel the least bit guilty looking at vids of the doors opening at all the stores that have a Black Friday sale.

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