Black Thursday: Thanksgiving in the Consumer Wasteland

[BrotherIvan]

7. I did the same on New Year's Day

When I worked in retail as a youngin, whenever I had to work New Year's Day it was always a debacle. It was hard to sober up in time to get to work so many times when all the fucking loons who had to be there at the crack of dawn, on New Year's Day fer chrissakes, got a rather surly stink eye from me. Who the hell needed STUFF so badly they had to rush in to go shopping on a holiday? Is it they want to get away from their family? Can't think of anything else to do?

And I gotta say, I never ever saw enough sales in the entire department store that justified paying us all time and a half and keeping the lights on. They were operating at a loss because their stupid management didn't have the guts to say no. Because that's what it is, their MBAs supposedly earn them gigantic salaries with bonuses but do not come with enough basic math to know they are not breaking even. But fear of losing even one sale is just too damned much. And the people who make the decision don't deal with payroll. They'll cut your salary to the bone to make up for all the money they lost later.