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Just throwing in my two cents re:what Phoenix Azul said about seasonal/temps not getting holiday pay.
Regular, year-round workers in retail - or at least in the place I work - don't get holiday pay either, or at least I never have when I've been called in to work during holidays like Easter or Thanksgiving (I imagine we might get it on Christmas, but they just don't open the doors then. Cheap, corporate jerks!). GameStop employees who are told to work for "mandatory" midnight release events (cough, Call of Duty, cough that was my version of Hell) only get their regular wages for those shifts, even if they end up staying until 3 in the morning and even if they've worked 8-hour shifts earlier in that day.
That said, UGH, Black Friday is the bane of my existence as a retail worker. Definitely seconding Phoenix's paragraph on abuse/customer behaviors that day. It's like every stupid, judgmental creep crawls out of the woodwork just to come badger us on that one specific day of the year and there's no way out of it.
I think I would cry if stores around here started their Black Friday deals on Thanksgiving. At my store, it's mandatory to work on Black Friday and it's grounds for termination if you miss it or if you manage to heinously offend someone during it. Most of my coworkers and I need the sleep we get Thanksgiving night to keep our patience intact when dealing with our Black Friday customers. Retail managers are notorious for scheduling long shifts that day and for not switching out coverage, so sometimes even when we do eat and sleep well we still get people who end up collapsing of exhaustion during a 12-hour shift of dealing with self-entitled little brats of various ages. Oh, yeah, we get breaks, if there's enough of a lull in the swarm of customers to allow us to leave... which there usually isn't.
Last Black Friday, I ended up working 10 am to 10 pm without a break, even though I was supposed to take one at about 4. "Just five more minutes Crosscaravan, you can go after you help this last customer and clear out the line!" ...and then five more pop up to take their place and I despaiiiiiiiired.
... tl;dr - no no no please do not start the Black Friday festivities on Thanksgiving night. Pleeeeeease. I will cry if that EVER happens, because if it's been suggested once it will probably be suggested again. And again. And again...
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