Rant of the Day - So with all the hard work and math that the Mayans put into a working calender, corporate America has managed to kill it in a short number of years. First let me say that there are 18 recognized holidays on our calender this year. However the corporate world only recognizes those that have sale potential, and those that have top earning potential get even higher priority. This thought was initiated when it was mentioned to me about someone already decorating for Halloween. So I went to thinking about what we REALLY use to mark time with. Store fliers and advertising, seasonal items at fast food restaurants, and blowup lawn ornaments. Now in reality we have a calender broken down in 12 periods called months, all developed by lunar movement and cycles using what we know as algebra. It actually works pretty good. However, when the schools supplies get put on sale two months before Labor day, then people really start thinking end of summer. As school opens up the visual becomes Halloween. Time to finalize winter heat. Halloween gets pushed aside for Christmas, leaving Thanksgiving as a food stop for Black Friday. New years gets a brief visit before the 45 day lead up to Valentines day and the visual referring to Easter. The only holidays that get a true pass are the flag holidays. Although the fourth has become a sales gainer so the visuals are getting bigger. Now even though this cycle still takes 365 days, the 30ish day intervals have been erased by rushing holidays into a visual and sales into our pockets. Funny part is that the majority of purchased items are not done until the last 2 weeks prior and in clearance sales after. To best facilitate this I am suggesting we change the calender to reflect the sales periods and making it less confusing. Sorry to all the sacrificed virgins and such that died so we could have 12 months, but modern is as modern does.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 10:35:42 +0000
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