Black Friday!

[Machinegun_Cali]

well I really didnt have an option...were I live we ONLY have a Kmart and JC Penny's...no mall ..no sephora,mac, best buy, walmart nothing

And Im sure as hell not getting up early to go to kmart or jc penny

 

[blazeno.8]

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Originally Posted by brokenxbeauty I have to work 11 to 5 in a clothing store at the mall. I've never worked a black friday before, I'm pretty nervous. Hope everyone gets some great deals though!

I worked Black Friday last year and it's busy, but it's not tooo bad considering... Our bosses knew the madhouse that the place can become so they had a buffet ready for us when we took our break. One of the managers blacked out breaks around the time the door busters were ending, but the individual department managers let us take breaks anyways. We had some crazy deal hunters, but most people were incredibly sympathetic to us.

 

[shatteredshards]

I used to work for JC Penney, and you bet your butt they blacked out breaktimes on us for Black Friday.

But that's nothing compared to my being to work at 5am, working a 10 hour shift, and not getting any kind of break at all this year, with the place I currently work.

And that was ontop of doing the same thing Thanksgiving. Yeah, no holiday off for us. And all I heard all day was fakey apologies from the people coming in to shop for last-minute things...they're not sorry I can't spend time with my family, they're here shopping!

I hate Black Friday. Hate it. And these people who go out and contribute to the crowd are the reason why corporate america treats some of us like robots.

 

[MissAlexisDDD]

I didn't go out that day but my boyfriend had to work that day (he works at american eagle) and said an old lady fainted because of all the chaos.

She turned out to be okay though.

 

[kdemers1221]

I worked at macy's on black friday and honestly none of the sales were any different then the ones my department had on the wednesday before thanksgiving. it wasn't too crazy just a lot of ringing on the register and then fixing merchandise after people plowed through it. my manager was great about breaks. he made out a whole schedule for everyone for the whole day with where you were supposed to be for every hour of your shift. he also scheduled 1 hour lunches so everyone got one as well as a 30 min break. it went really smoothly that because everyone knew what they were supposed to be doing. i've never gone out on black friday so working was my first experience with it and i think if the economy was better it would have been worse.