the Cheesecake Factory is a bunch of sadists

[veronica_rich]

My sister and I signed up last year onto the Cheesecake Factory's emailing list, to get free offers and what-not; periodically we'll get a reminder of some holiday (with no specials) to encourage us to spend money. Last week we got an email titled "What Are You Doing For Mother's Day?"

My sister threatened to email them back with: Well, MY mother's dead. What are YOU doing for Mother's Day? Rub it in, why don't you?

Today I got an email from them titled "Veronica, Mom Wants Cheesecake." My immediate thought was, wait, did they have a seance, and the woman placed an order from beyond the grave? Am I expected to pay for that if they actually find a way to deliver it to her, or can she maybe put it instead on her BooExpress Card? (Motto: "Don't Leave This Earth Without It.")

/pondery

Comments

[beckyblack]

I really can't stand that. It's one thing for there to be adverts that are aimed at the general populace about Mother's Day, but something coming into your email inbox feels like it's aimed at you, and it's making an assumption with the potential to upset someone. My mother died 20 years ago now, so I would only feel irritated by it. But what about someone whose mother died recently? Or who for whatever reason is sensitive to mention of their mother for good reason? Same applies to father's day of course.

I bloody well would email them back to say, this is insensitive and potentially upsetting to many of the people they're emailing and suggest they think it through in how they word it so they aren't making the assumption everyone still has a mother around that they are on good terms with.

[keechakatt.livejournal.com]

I actually sent a very perturbed email last year to Proflowers. It said, "Your mother is waiting for you."

My mom has been dead since 1989. If she's waiting. I'm running the other way!

[beckyblack]

Good grief. Why don't they think it through?! Why do they assume everyone's life is the same and we all have a mother, who they also probably think in is the kitchen baking.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I would have replied, "I'm sure she thinks she is."

Let them figure out what I mean by that. ;-)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

You know, though, it's so omnipresent that I don't think it would do any good to really get upset over it. I try to have humor; I know it's not personal. I found it more hilarious than anything, but we all know I have a macabre sense of humor anyway, LOL.