The day after

[sereneorange]

You poor bastards working retail today, god I feel for you. My worst day at work is nothing like the hell the poor people working at wal-mart, Target, Sams, Kmart, Bed Bath and Beyond, and all the other retail places will go through today.

I hope somehow civility is contageous today. I hope you have the opportunity to stick unruly bastards with a straigh pin and their parents don't find out. I hope anyone that is rude to a sales clerk gets their packages stolen from their cars while torturing the next sales clerk. I hope my father makes it home in one peice. I hope if my mother goes shopping today, she makes it home in one piece (with some badass deals!).

Comments

[prowly.livejournal.com]

I drove by Target on my way to work... 5:50 am and the line outside the store ran the full length of the building.

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

About 3 years ago, I did the walmart thing the day after thanksgiving. They had the game boy xp on sale and I wanted to get it for Con. I will never ever do that again. The way people behaved was disgusting. Grown women were threatening each other. The police had to come in to make sure that a riot didn't break out.

[prowly.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong that I'm willing to pay the regular price for the luxury of not having to deal with the masses? I'm sure it says something about me... but what exactly?

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

it says the same thing about you that it says about me. I would rather pay a little bit more to not be around a bunch of obnoxious fuckers.
there is the financial cost and the psychological cost and we value one over the other.

[prowly.livejournal.com]

I believe this is what they refer to as "opportunity cost" in economics.

[jason-bond-69.livejournal.com]

What the world...needs now...is ci-vility!

Haven't worked a Black Friday (never heard it called that before this year, but I always called today The Descent Into Hell) since 1998, and I still get stressed about this day. So help me I will never go out shopping on this day if I can help it, because I can't stand seeing people being rude to salespeople. I go out of my way to be nice, even if I am in a very bad mood myself.

Let's hope nobody gets killed today! lol

[prowly.livejournal.com]

I thought it needed love, sweet love?