The following was written by my son, a cashier at Wal-Mart. He will be
graduating from college soon with a degree in education.

"Well, it's done. I've survived another Pre-Black Friday (also known as
Thursday) sale at Wal-Mart. I learned some colorful language from
customers and even got body checked a couple of times by customers that
couldn't (or wouldn't) read signs on where to go. After spending pretty
much the entirety of my Thanksgiving Day at Wal-Mart, watching people
push and shove and scratch and claw their way to their precious $5
waffle maker, I have to say I'm pretty disgusted by the near-sport that
shopping has become. These people left their families on the day that
everyone is supposed to be thankful for what they have, simply because
they believed they didn't have enough. It's a sort of revolting irony
that makes me cringe. Not because I had to sacrifice my Thanksgiving Day
so they can feel good about themselves for buying a $5 waffle maker. I
cringe because those shoppers chose their $5 waffle maker over spending
time with their family."

End of comment.

--
DreadfulBitch

There is no love more sincere than the love of food.
....George Bernard Shaw

"DreadfulBitch" > wrote in message
...
> The following was written by my son, a cashier at Wal-Mart. He will be
> graduating from college soon with a degree in education.
>
> "Well, it's done. I've survived another Pre-Black Friday (also known as
> Thursday) sale at Wal-Mart. I learned some colorful language from
> customers and even got body checked a couple of times by customers that
> couldn't (or wouldn't) read signs on where to go. After spending pretty
> much the entirety of my Thanksgiving Day at Wal-Mart, watching people push
> and shove and scratch and claw their way to their precious $5 waffle
> maker, I have to say I'm pretty disgusted by the near-sport that shopping
> has become. These people left their families on the day that everyone is
> supposed to be thankful for what they have, simply because they believed
> they didn't have enough. It's a sort of revolting irony that makes me
> cringe. Not because I had to sacrifice my Thanksgiving Day so they can
> feel good about themselves for buying a $5 waffle maker. I cringe because
> those shoppers chose their $5 waffle maker over spending time with their
> family."
>
> End of comment.

Yep. I worked for K Mart for 17 years and was seriously appalled at the
behavior of some of the customers. The worst of which was when an elderly
man fell to the floor in the grips of a heart attack. It happened to be
very near the checkouts and while we attempted to block off that area to
keep people away from him until the paramedics came, people were still
yelling and screaming at him, stepping over him, etc. This was just before
Christmas and things were very chaotic then, pretty much all of the time.
Problem was he had fallen in the aisle where those cheap Christmas food
items were and they all wanted those. Nobody cared that we had an
emergency. They just wanted their bargains.

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 17:04:20 -0600, DreadfulBitch wrote:
>
>> The following was written by my son, a cashier at Wal-Mart. He will be
>> graduating from college soon with a degree in education.
>>
>> "Well, it's done. I've survived another Pre-Black Friday (also known as
>> Thursday) sale at Wal-Mart. I learned some colorful language from
>> customers and even got body checked a couple of times by customers that
>> couldn't (or wouldn't) read signs on where to go. After spending pretty
>> much the entirety of my Thanksgiving Day at Wal-Mart, watching people
>> push and shove and scratch and claw their way to their precious $5
>> waffle maker, I have to say I'm pretty disgusted by the near-sport that
>> shopping has become. These people left their families on the day that
>> everyone is supposed to be thankful for what they have, simply because
>> they believed they didn't have enough. It's a sort of revolting irony
>> that makes me cringe. Not because I had to sacrifice my Thanksgiving Day
>> so they can feel good about themselves for buying a $5 waffle maker. I
>> cringe because those shoppers chose their $5 waffle maker over spending
>> time with their family."
>>
>> End of comment.
>
> Sounds like a sanctimonious holier-than-thou type.

It rather does.

I can't tell you how many times I saw this posted over the past holidays and
prior. Give the poor retail workers the day off! Don't support this by
shopping then. They deserve a day off too? Of course it never occurred to
anyone that some people actually like working on holidays. Perhaps they
have no families or no families where they are at. Perhaps they want to
escape their families. Or perhaps they just want the extra money. Most
places pay double for holidays.