America celebrates a great national holiday on the fourth Thursday of November. This day is set aside to give you a day off from work if your employer observes the holiday. Those who have to work might get the holiday as a floating holiday or extra pay.
The intent of the holiday is to reflect on the blessings in your life being thankful for what you have. Spending quality time with family and friends.
The evolving new Thank$giving is becoming the malls and shops are open with bargain sales. I'm not satisfied. I want more more more. Keep my dinner warm I'm out of here mall bound till I drop.
I love sales too. They have this great invention called a website. Buy online at home and send a message to all the greedy retailers making their employees work and disrupting family quality time by tempting people with bargains to leave the house and shop on this special holiday.
I dedicate this blog post to my two special friends that are working overseas faraway from their families. One is in Shanghai doing domestic work and the other is in Kuwait working as a seamstress. They both have no choice because they can't find decent employment in their country to adequately help support their families. They are tough and survivors that will make sacrifices and be abused by employers in these countries with no enforced labor laws. They are the modern day salves.
The next time you leave your place of employment be thankful that you can leave for the day and not have to ask permission to leave. These two women work around the clock and have only time to sleep and then it's back to work. They only get a little time off to do personal business.
