vicarz | (no subject)

My god I hate malls, shopping in them, and holiday glitz. I decided to go shopping in the AM to avoid crowds, but while you can avoid the swirling masses you cannot avoid the blaring of horrid covers of xmas music you thought you hated before it was mutated into an even more tacky pop version. I question the culture that wants people to come up to them every 30 seconds with their cheery $10/hr offers to help me find stuff I don't need. Perhaps I'm just ghetto, and am so used to the outlet malls that what most people appreciate - displays of rank and acts reminiscent of slavery - are lost on me like a fine wine. Perhaps their just a bunch of garish trash themselves. Either way - malls, goodbye while I surf the internet.

Those friendly UPS drivers make more than the skanky mall hos.

Were it not for the tiny See's candy store I would have left empty handed and full of just hate.

Saving the day? Trader Joes, who gave me thimbles of coffee and nibbles of cinnamon, this before I saw the 20something employee come out on the floor in a full-sized elf costume. His coworkers cracked up and he unabashedly started helping customers find goodies. I chalk my impulse buys up to him.

God fuck this holiday and wipe it off already.

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I'm avoiding stores until the new year starts. Attempted to shop for high-end sneakers a few weekends ago and due to my ADD, and due to the fact that every parking lot was a cluster fuck, we didn't wind up actually making the purchase we'd set out to make until evening.

fortunately i like buying gifts for people and started early.

Sees? Since when have you given up Lindts?

Since Lindt closed their store in the outlet mall :(

You are now reading this in Tiny Tim's voice:

God fuck this holiday and wipe it off already.

Cranky much?

Experiment no coffee = fail
or I'm on my period
hard

perhaps this song reflects your sentiments. i reflects mine.

I question the culture that wants people to come up to them every 30 seconds with their cheery $10/hr offers to help me find stuff I don't need.

I'm hearing a lot about what it's like to work in a retail business during the holiday season, and it sounds like employers push a lot of quotas and other harsh standards on their retail employees. Whatever they are making an hour, it is not a pleasant job to be in since shoppers are also on their worst behaviour at this time of the year. So, please don't mock the "mall hos," they're just trying to earn an honest living like the rest of us and do what they are told to do by their bosses. Not everyone in the world is fortunate enough to manage their finances and other aspects of their life well enough to get a higher-level education and find a cushy position in the government. Also, at least the "mall hos" are working a job and not relying on the welfare system to pull in some cash. :-P

Oh I don't think they want to - it's clearly mgt telling them what to do and monitoring it. It's 100% insincere and it creeps me out. I was a mall ho once, and it sucked balls. I'm not mean to them - I just hate the treatment.

But I will mock. That mockery may inspire them to go to college forever and take a publicly loathed job - though I wish it were cushy!