Ho Fucking Ho Ho

[hkellick]

I hate christmas.
I hate almost all of it.
I hate the hype. Yeah, what a great idea. Let's pull the Christmas stuff out just as Halloween ends. 2 months of christmas? No one will mind, right? How many days till Christmas? Only 60? Time to take over the radio stations and play all the christmas music we want!
I hate the blatant commercialism. Wasn't Christmas (and for that matter Hannukah) supposed to be a solemn holiday marking an important religious day, not a day about candy canes and presents and christmas lights and all that shite?
I hate snow and ice and cold. White Christmas my ass. How about a nice green christmas with grass still visible, eh?
I hate the music. I swear to god, there are only 15 christmas tunes and numerous terrible covers of them. I want to burn frosty down to the ground, shoot rudolph, melt any sleigh or jingle bells and fuck Santa if all he has to worry about is whether we've been naughty or nice, you fucking judgemental bastard.
I hate the "Christmas spirit". I've seen the Christmas Spirit. It's a myth. People are too busy being general asshats to give a shit about anyone else not them. Christmas Spirit. Ha! If there were a real christmas spirit, you'd see people giving their christmas presents to people who could actually use them instead of being the materialistic little bastards they are. Or, heaven forbid, perhaps just a little of their time or money. Go ahead and ask the City Mission or Meals for Wheels or the Red Cross or any actual helpful organization whether THEY believe in the Christmas Spirit.
Mostly, though, I hate christmas shoppers. I hate the people with 50 different things to buy for 50 different people, each rung out seperately and wrapped and boxed. I hate people who get snotty if, heaven forbid, we're all sold out of the same thing EVERYONE ELSE in the city is sold out of. I hate whiny snot-nosed little kids who scream and wail because their parents are doing shopping for someone besides them and weren't intending to buy them something at EVERY FREAKIN STORE. I hate people who don't understand that if they're exhausted from all the shopping they're doing, we poor clerks are just as exhausted from putting up with a few hundred people demanding this and that and to be checked out NOW and get this down and put this in my trunk and does this come in Black?
Ugh ugh ugh.
Bah Humbug.

Comments

[kareila]

Somebody needs a hug.

[lite.livejournal.com]

That too.
Even after sleep I still feel as grumpy as I did. Alot of it was work was a bitch but it still annoys me what people do with Christmas. The month and a half of ONLY christmas carols on the radio, the music itself (I seriously AM sick of christmas music.). The way shoppers go from generally normal and well-behaved to bitchy and berating and nasty.
For me, christmas is just one of those things that someone has blown out of proportion. Keep in mind, it's not like, when I was Jewish, christmas ever had any sort of GOOD meanings for me. It didn't mean anything because I didn't celebrate it.
Anyways... I'm rambling.

[phoenixsong]

*snuggles* I'm sorry we haven't had much time/energy to talk lately.

You do not work Wednesday, and I will likely be all hyped up on various holiday food products by the end of work tomorrow. Shall we call early Wednesday morning a phone date?

[lite.livejournal.com]

You mean 12:30 Wednesday Morning?
Yes please. I still miss you terribly. :(

[dustkitten.livejournal.com]

So far, my only problem has been the really bad driving.

I like Christmas. I like Christmas shopping. I have not had a problem finding what I want. I leave my child with someone else while I shop, if I can, and otherwise, she gets a little frustrated but doesn't cross the line over to cranky, mostly because she can tell you how many days are left till she gets presents.

I don't mind Christmas being about presents and silly songs and the like as long as people TRY to remember that's only half of it. I mean, Jesus is about joy, nyo. Prezzies are joy...or can be.

The music..ah well, the music is kind of a mixed blessing. The only station that's playing it a bunch here already is the soft "rock"/oldies/something so everything's really dull. But soon, oh soon, the amazing Jon will come with his Jon Solomon's 24 Hours Of Christmas (a punk and indie Christmas show that truly does go 24 hours), and we will all be saved. And hopefully before that, Y100 will kick in with songs I'm not terribly sick of, like that Smashing Pumpkins Xmas song, or um..Squirrel Nut Zippers' Carolina Christmas.

Until then...*pulls out her copy of John Denver and the Muppets Sing Christmas.

-A-

[skrshawk.livejournal.com]

Our culture of consumerism is shown for its full value during the months of November and December. Because of a time of year we feel that it is necessary to buy in large quantities and give to those we love and care about - often by expectation.

Nonetheless, only in this culture is the cost of service included in the purchase price in most retail establishments. Apparently no small number of people feel that the clerk providing them service deserves any compensation for their efforts - customers are shopping with a store, not its employees. Because of the impersonal relationship people have with their merchants it takes away the simple premise "the clerk has a family to feed too... this is part of what you're paying for". Also key to how America does business is that no paying customer is refused, no matter how ridiculous their demands are and no matter if the overall compensation isn't up to snuff. Europe tells people (often Americans) to get the fuck out of their stores because of the ridiculous requests - or charges them very accordingly.

I'm again reminded of the person trampled on "opening day" this season at a Florida Wal-mart - isn't that supposed to be a baseball term? Is competitive shopping a sport or something? Well, to some people it is - and injuries must be part of the game because it's a sport, right?

Serious purchases with companies not explicitly ethical will be waiting until after the holiday season.