I heard this phrase for the first time yesterday.
Ironically, I'd just completed an item that will run later this week on Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Green Friday, Buy Nothing Day, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday.
Wasted Wednesday was a new one.
I figured it was called that as the day tends to be wasted, in productivity terms. And as a person who always works this day no matter what, and who often works at least one of the work days prior to the next business day (the infamous Cyber Monday), it is often not terribly productive.
But, nope. It's called that as apparently its a day in which there's a lot of heavy drinking.
I don't know what to say about that. Alcohol and the holidays have gone together for a long time. I suppose this is nothing new, but it sounds like it is. And if it is, that's a sad development.
Showing posts with label Cyber Monday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cyber Monday. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Monday, November 26, 2018
Thanksgiving and Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, oh my!
Today is Cyber Monday, originally so named as this was the day when workers returning to their offices, work stations, cubicles etc., chose to shop on company time, rather than dive right back in.
Not surprising really. Those with a long weekend tend to return for the most part with the post holiday blahs.
Retailers, however, picked up this pretty quickly and started offering Cyber Monday deals, making it a real thing.
How about you, have you participated in the Consumer Culture Bacchanalia? It's sort of hard not to, although I support Small Business Saturday.
Which doesn't mean I participated in it. I don't like shopping much anyhow. And my land line phone has broken so that the message light hasn't been going off. Given that, I missed an invitation to a book signing, but truth be known as I was very much looking forwards to four days in a row with now work, perhaps that was to my benefit in another sense. Book signings make me really tense as I'm highly introverted by nature, something that people who know me only in a professional sense would be surprised to learn.
Anyhow, I guess it isn't true that I didn't participate entirely. That Saturday I did run out and stop by a sporting goods store to get something I required anyhow. Things were marked way, way down and it wasn't until I got home that I realized that it must have been a Small Business Saturday sale.
My daughter and wife did participate, however. They went to a collection of small local businesses on Saturday to shop for Christmas. Good for them.
Thanksgiving was otherwise low key but odd. As already noted on these pages, we went to our in laws where an elderly hunter died in a field while we were out there. Strange melancholy experience. The next day I had a message from one of my employees about a medical emergency of epic proportions in their family, very distressing indeed. All that caste a sort of tense gloom over things. I didn't work, however, and did go hunting a couple of times.
Cyber Monday? Who knows, perhaps even I'll participate a bit.
Not surprising really. Those with a long weekend tend to return for the most part with the post holiday blahs.
Retailers, however, picked up this pretty quickly and started offering Cyber Monday deals, making it a real thing.
How about you, have you participated in the Consumer Culture Bacchanalia? It's sort of hard not to, although I support Small Business Saturday.
Which doesn't mean I participated in it. I don't like shopping much anyhow. And my land line phone has broken so that the message light hasn't been going off. Given that, I missed an invitation to a book signing, but truth be known as I was very much looking forwards to four days in a row with now work, perhaps that was to my benefit in another sense. Book signings make me really tense as I'm highly introverted by nature, something that people who know me only in a professional sense would be surprised to learn.
Anyhow, I guess it isn't true that I didn't participate entirely. That Saturday I did run out and stop by a sporting goods store to get something I required anyhow. Things were marked way, way down and it wasn't until I got home that I realized that it must have been a Small Business Saturday sale.
My daughter and wife did participate, however. They went to a collection of small local businesses on Saturday to shop for Christmas. Good for them.
Thanksgiving was otherwise low key but odd. As already noted on these pages, we went to our in laws where an elderly hunter died in a field while we were out there. Strange melancholy experience. The next day I had a message from one of my employees about a medical emergency of epic proportions in their family, very distressing indeed. All that caste a sort of tense gloom over things. I didn't work, however, and did go hunting a couple of times.
Cyber Monday? Who knows, perhaps even I'll participate a bit.
Monday, November 30, 2015
Eh? Oh Cyber Monday
I'd forgotten that Black Friday is followed by Cyber Monday.
As I don't pay much attention to such things, I'd sort of dimly recalled that there was a computer sales hootenanny, but I didn't remember when. I sort of thought it was Saturday.
It's today, Monday, as people return to work, and shop with their work computers. Seriously. Makes sense, I guess.
So there you have it. Thanksgiving, with Black Friday creeping into Thursday night of Thanksgiving. Black Friday. Then Small Business Saturday, followed by Cyber Monday. Black Friday seems to have been a disappointment, I guess, and so there's big hopes pinned on Cyber Monday. I guess it's the equivalent of what catalogs were, with much more ease of purchase, back when I was young.
As I don't pay much attention to such things, I'd sort of dimly recalled that there was a computer sales hootenanny, but I didn't remember when. I sort of thought it was Saturday.
It's today, Monday, as people return to work, and shop with their work computers. Seriously. Makes sense, I guess.
So there you have it. Thanksgiving, with Black Friday creeping into Thursday night of Thanksgiving. Black Friday. Then Small Business Saturday, followed by Cyber Monday. Black Friday seems to have been a disappointment, I guess, and so there's big hopes pinned on Cyber Monday. I guess it's the equivalent of what catalogs were, with much more ease of purchase, back when I was young.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Lex Anteinternet: Distributist of the world unite! National Small B...
Lex Anteinternet: Distributist of the world unite! National Small B...: Saturday, November 29, is National Small Business Saturday, a holiday, of sorts, oddly enough thought up American Express. This follow...Since posting this I've been impressed by the seemingly endless series of days that follow Thanksgiving, dedicated or observed in some informal fashion. The sales frenzy following Thanksgiving is, of course, Black Friday. Then we have now National Small Business Saturday. I'd forgotten that the following Monday is Cyber Monday, but saw reporting on it, on the news, yesterday. And today is apparently something like C heritable Tuesday. An interesting series of competing, or perhaps compatible, forces at work there.
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