Black Friday

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  • Tiernan1212
    Tiernan1212 Posts: 797 Member
    I do not participate in either Thanksgiving or Black Friday shopping in person. I choose to do 99% of my Christmas shopping online.

    I also do not agree that stores should be open on Thanksgiving. However, having worked in a hospital for almost 14 years I became pretty resigned to the fact that I would have to work on Thanksgiving or Christmas (or both) so I don't really feel much for the employees having to work (although I think the reason they have to work is beyond stupid). I do think it's ridiculous that people would give up their time with their families, where they are supposed to be thankful for the people and things in their lives, to chase a few dollars off.
  • AusAshMommy
    AusAshMommy Posts: 845 Member
    I have participated in Black Friday all of ONCE in my life and that was only because my college roommate insisted I go with her - didn't buy a Thing that day, but more people-watched than anything...

    Generally if we're home I spend the day baking with my Mom, but we live three states away so that's not an option - so now I spend the day chilling at home and do my annual watching of 'White Christmas' instead.

    My hubby works retail and THANK GODDESS he's not working Thanksgiving, his retail chain has opted not to open on Thanksgiving, but he's worked many a black Friday (In a PET STORE PEOPLE, Seriously?!?!) Anyhew, I've only ventured out to either drop him off or pick him up from work...that is IT! The crowds in the parking lot are enough insanity for me Thank-You!
  • JenAndSome
    JenAndSome Posts: 1,893 Member
    LifeInTheBikeLane wrote: »
    This will be my first year ever not working on Black Friday OR Thanksgiving. I consider myself lucky but will really miss working those 8pm-8am shifts (I'm not joking).

    I worked Black Friday at Starbucks for 3 years as a shift manager. Oh the fun of it! The crowd would start really early on Thanksgiving so there was no preparing. I'd come in around 7pm with a Redline energy drink and have my Love on backup (We live less then a mile from both my old Starbucks job and my current job) with more energy drinks to bring by when needed. Last year was the craziest year of all. The line was around building and I was on double bar duty with my best friend and partner in crime. There were so many people piled into our cafe that we couldn't see the floor. The girl on Drive Thru yells, "Oh my god, they're fighting in the drive-thru!" Sure enough, a woman cut off another driver and they decided to hash it out with more then words. These women had gotten out of their cars and were fighting in our drive-thru. Did I mention my store was in the parking lot of a Walmart? A few hours later about five cop cars began taking up more space in our parking lot then we could handle. A man had left his keys in his car by accident when he went to wait in line at Walmart. Someone took his car as their present.

    Then there were the girls the year before who came through the Drive-Thru around 4am and began showing me the bite marks on their arms and legs from the fight they had gotten into at Victoria Secret.

    We always had fun. We'd have turkey and all the fixings and everything would slow down for a few hours around 3am-5pm. My family was nice enough to schedule our dinner around my work schedule, too. :) This year will be nice, though. We are going to Ren Fest for black Friday instead of working or shopping.

    Fisticuffs in the drive-thru...priceless. I doubt that will happen in my department because we are usually pretty slow even when the rest of the store is slammed. One can hope, though.

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