This blog isn't going to be all that funny...well, there will some humor but this a serious subject matter. I'm used to Black Fridays where employees have to sacrifice their holiday time with families to cater to the needs of masses who just want to catch great deals on Christmas presents. As someone who has worked through a couple of Black Fridays, I feel sorry for anyone who has to work through them, as people have, at times, become rabid animals over a new game system.
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This year, however, seems different. More capitalistic and soulless, if you will. Throughout the month of November, there have been commercials for black Friday sales starting the Wednesdays before or even the Thanksgiving (Thursday) of said sale day. This worries me for the following reasons with the first being what about the employees of said retail shops? Thanksgiving is a holiday where EVERYONE deserves rest and time with their family, including the employees. Employees are treated like literal crap, or worse, during "BF" so imagine how they'll be treated on the days before, including turkey day. Second, Thanksgiving used to be about being thankful for what a person has but now it's about the hottest sales a store has. It's not being thankful for what you've got, it's being thankful for what you want, will get and then waiting for the updated of it 6-12 months. Third, the feeling of people devolving over the years of "BF". Reports of people being shot, stabbed, trampled or whatever over a sale is just disgusting . It really makes me wonder what the bigwigs think when they hear a person was injured or even killed over a product of theirs. Possibly puts a smile to their faces.
In closing, Thanksgiving day and Black Friday sales are a show that capitalism is taking over our holidays. What's next, sales on Christmas day? Then those who work retail will never get a day off, splitting families further apart. These black friday commercials where everyone is smiling and happy are bunch of bullshit! It is chaos!
Fuck you, Black Friday!
