I don't shop on Black Friday, except during REGULAR business hours. As someone who's spent most of her working life in retail, I can say in all confidence that Black Friday brings out the absolute worst in people. It is a celebration of greed, nothing more or less. There is nothing you need at 2 in the morning, that you can't get at 10 in the morning. If you can't afford to get it at the 10AM price, then you should re-think your priorities. You have all year to buy a widget. There's no reason why you have to do it at 2 in the morning, making minimum-wage employees have to miss out on sleep just so they can watch you rip through a shelf of toys with six dozen other people all vying for the limited selection available for the special price of whatever.
It disgusts me. I've also stopped working on Fridays in retail. For that very reason. They can't make me work at 2 in the morning, if I'm not available to work on Fridays at all.
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