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NNadir

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4. Wow. Thanks. We'll be boycotted Black Friday this year. This morning, as I'll be off...

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Wed Nov 26, 2025, 09:31 AM

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...black Friday, but all these service people will not.

It hurts to think of them deprived of the 4 day weekend, a little thing, a trivial thing, but disturbing all the same.

When we were young, my wife worked in hospital settings (as I did before I met her).

She worked many holidays, but that was justifiable. Serving consumerism strikes me as less so.

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