To Give Thanks

Every year the time comes to gobble til you wobble.  Thanksgiving is a cherished holiday for some, while others focus their time and efforts on the bigger picture, BLACK FRIDAY. You put up with ridiculous lines, grumpy smelly people, and getting run over with carts just to get a good deal.  This year stores are making things even more “special” by beginning the sales even earlier and starting on Thanksgiving night. Which forces workers to come in on this special holiday and for what to save you a couple bucks? What on earth were retailers thinking?  Everyone who works in retail will tell you, it’s just not fair that shoppers are taking away their holiday.

How about a reality check for those cry babies?  Let’s consider this; you don’t hear people who work in the healthcare field that sometimes have to spend every holiday away from their family crying about it. Nor do you hear about people who have loved ones in the service and can’t be home for the holidays complaining like them.  Not one of them is throwing a fit about working the holidays.  Yet people who work in retail fuss every single year about having to go into work on Thanksgiving.  How about you try to be thankful for any time you get to spend with your family because in reality you are lucky to be able to spend any of that day with your loved ones.

Black Friday sales are only going to get more extreme every year due to the simple fact that people aren’t going to stop shopping as long as it is available.  Instead of being so negative about it you should be thankful for your family and that you actually have a job.  Isn’t that the whole meaning of the holiday anyways, to give thanks.