I've always disliked the creep of American culture over Australia, but I think this is the worst thing yet.
Retailers have started running Black Friday sales. This is very wrong because:
We don't celebrate Thanksgiving
Black Friday is January 13 1939, when bushfires wiped out 2 million hectares and killed 71 people
It's really upsetting that the first page of Google results for "Black Friday Australia" are all sales. Please. That is not our country.
Black Friday is the second largest (by area) bushfire in recorded Australian history. It lead to a Royal Commission on forestry management to mitigate future fires.
The fires currently burning in NSW and Queensland have destroyed 1.6 million hectares so far, which has been exacerbated by inaction on climate change and cutting of funding to fire services by Gladys "koala killer" Berejiklian.
Just...no. I can't deal with this. Please don't encourage retailers by spending money on their "black Friday" sales. Consider donating to the RFS instead.
it’s so difficult not being able to use milennial humor in a corporate setting. like i made a mistake today and i wanted to tell my supervisor it’s because i suffer from Dumb Bitch Disease, but do you think that would fly?? fuck no. i gotta say shit like, “sorry for the misunderstanding!” i can’t wait till the workforce is made up entirely of millennials and i can say “sorry i drank idiot juice for breakfast this morning” and my coworkers will be like “oh worm.”