I have found something that's worse than Black Friday

Liquidation.

Because, with Black Friday, you know it's only one day. Today is officially day 3 of liquidation, and we have just over two months left.

My store manager was marveling yesterday at lunch. Over the summer months he likes to grill hot dogs for the staff on Fridays; everyone usually brings in a dish but he will also buy chips or some sides. So he's eating some chips and I'm digging into some cake that someone brought and he was amazed.

"You know, Kristina and the Waves," he says (because he thought my name was Katrina for awhile and then called me "Katrina and the Waves" before Patty set him straight), "Three weeks ago, this stuff was at 20% off and nobody was here. Now it's 10% off and they're out in droves. People are such sheep."

And all I could do was nod, because he's right.

What is it about liquidation that makes people go absolutely nuts? If you'd paid attention to our sales, you would've noticed that prices were actually lower three weeks ago, and you would have been able to return it if you didn't like it. Now they're not so great and all sales are final.

Plus people don't care about the employees losing their jobs, or that they're making a mess of our store. All they care about is scoring a great deal. They forget, in their pursuit of frugality, that there are people that work at this store. Real people, with real lives and families, that are really losing their jobs.

(That said, I start my new job - at another retail establishment, smaller than my current one - on Tuesday. I'm going to try and do both but if Kmart shoppers continue to act like ill-behaved children at a birthday party with the theme EVERYTHING SUGAR then I'll have to quit there.)