The popular image of Black Friday - mobs of people waiting in crazed excitement for retailer doors to open in the middle of the night - isn't so far off from the armies of orcs in the Lord of the Rings films. In a way, that makes the retail employees the soldiers of men - waiting for the chaos to break through and overwhelm them, but standing tall nonetheless.
One target manager took that metaphor to the next level: before the store doors opened on Black Friday a week ago, he stood atop his register and gave what is simultaneously the greatest and goofiest motivational speech of all time. It's a combination of 300, Patton and a little bit of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Enjoy:
Yes, one could say that it's middle management trying to cater to a store full of tired, underpaid employees, but at least the guy gives it his all. It's a lot easier to respect a boss who screams and climbs on top of the checkout lane, rather than the passive aggressive Office Space type of manager. Plus, who wouldn't want an awesome pep talk like that on the morning of Black Friday? It makes work a lot more enjoyable to think of this when standing at a cash register at midnight:
Anybody else pumped to start working at Target?
