There's just something about the holidays......that makes people absolutely bat-shit crazy. It makes for good stories, but it also makes me bang my head on the desk a lot. I think it's the consumerism. I think it's the 63% of us - I'm told - that struggle in one way or another with the holiday well-being and perfect family-ism that we tap into, watching it in ads in papers and online, and the holiday feel-good movies that flood the airwaves, and our own crazy expectations. We gotta cut that OUT. I keep thinking of Whoville. I really hope that they DO come out of their homes and hold hands and sing "Wha Hoo Dooray" - or whatever those words are! - every single morning, every single week. Because that is not just the underpinning of the holiday, it is the underpinning of our world...that compassion and love for one another and the appreciation for that which is really worthwhile...that stuff that our world is starving for and which is why our world (well, at least our country) is struggling to rise from; a pile of angry, hating, negative shit that's been dumped on us since 2016. Keep the faith in goodness, whatever its form, and keep holding hands while we cross the road of this bloody, heart-breaking time in our country's history. And maybe, just maybe, we can keep being an American country.
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Unnatural ResourcesHo! Ho! Holy cow! Holy moly! And Holy Jehoshaphat! (And I didn't know about that "h" after the "s" in the spelling either!) The store...and Christmas. No matter which store it is, Christmas is the Real Deal. It's the Big Trough. It's time to rake in the money because this is when people spend, baby! So that means using every resource at hand to make this work, and work well! To this end, people get moved around. I, for instance, volunteered to be helpful. So they gave me some work to do supporting the people driving the sales. Funny...I used to be one of the top sales-drivers. I was looking forward to doing something of that again, but I was put into a support position for people who don't ordinarily do this kind of order taking. Ho! Ho! Holy crap... Okay, I have lots of ways to be helpful, that's true, and today I did get to speak to one or two people. And it's as funny and interesting and weird as ever. I particularly loved the woman who told me over and over that she was not going to shop with us anymore if we couldn't make the 55% off deal an 80% off deal! Just for her. Just because. I pulled out my bag of tricks and told her a few things. |
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