Black Friday

[PhoenixAzul]

^^ Not likely. A good portion of these employees will be seasonal/temp hires, who have no rights to benefits or holiday pay, and even then, things happen like only being paid for the two hours of the "holiday" until midnight, and then switching back to whatever wage they make for a normal day.

I will not be shopping or buying a damn thing on Black Friday, nor on Thanksgiving day, and I'm so ridiculously relieved that the place where I work would never open on thanskgiving, and will be holding their normal hours on Friday.

Retail workers get abused and yelled at all day long on Black Friday, and I have to tell you that it is a day that I dread with every fiber of my being. Normally sane people become crabby, irrational, and demanding on Black Friday, and somehow thing that retail associates have this magic power to make other colors of a product appear, or we have some secret stash of product somewhere, or that we set the prices of things, or that we are uneducated.

Black Friday is seriously my version of Hell.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by PhoenixAzul

Black Friday is seriously my version of Hell.

This. In fact, I will not set foot in a mall between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day unless there is absolutely, positively no way to avoid it.

[excelblue]

It's almost never worth it. Even if I value my time at minimum wage, which is $8.25/hr here, if I have to wait even 5hr in line, it'll need to justify a $41.25 savings before I'd bother. That's not considering in all the risks associated.

Considering the fact that I'm usually making several times more than minimum wage when I do freelance projects, I actually value my time much more than that. After calculating it out, if it's gonna take me 5hr in line (both getting in/out), I'll need to realistically save at least $300 over regular deals before I bother. Verdict: not happening, makes no economic sense.

Yes, there are deals in which you save >$300, but those usually involve ~15hr of waiting, which means I'll need to save almost ~$1000 to bother. So yeah, I'll even pass up $200 MacBook Pro if that was a Black Friday deal.

It's all economics.

[nittanygirl]

Originally Posted by excelblue

I'll even pass up $200 MacBook Pro if that was a Black Friday deal.

If that was a Black Friday deal, I'm going to be seriously grouchy I missed out. My Macbook is ancient but I just can't afford a new one.

I got home from Thanksgiving with BFs family and my dad asked me if I wanted to do him a favor. I said sure, because really, what could it be?

Welllll it could be to go to WALMART at midnight to get this thing my brother wanted while my dad slept.

But I got it! Woop!

[DaffyKD]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

This. In fact, I will not set foot in a mall between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day unless there is absolutely, positively no way to avoid it.

MC, if I didn't know better, I would have thought I wrote your message. If I absolutely MUST go to the mall before New Years, I go 15 minutes before they open so I don't deal with the idiots trying to find that perfect parking space, go to the one store I MUST go to and race out the door as fast as I can.

I have never braved Black Friday and I don't intend to break my record at this age.

DaffyKD