Black Friday and the War on Thanksgiving

AGDee · #1 10-20-2014, 02:55 PM

I think it is way better to be able to go to bed at 10 or 11 pm, get up at 5:30 or 6 and be at work at 7 than it would be to leave your family's Thanksgiving dinner to be at work at 6 pm. Also, you could still have a couple beers or glasses of wine if you're not working until the next morning. If you're working that night, having any alcohol would be risky.

Yes, there are some service areas where you know that you'll have to work holidays. I don't think retail should be one of them.

SWTXBelle · #2 10-20-2014, 03:23 PM

YES. Especially since retail workers will be entering the period when they usually can get no time off, have to work weekends and extended hours, and deal with holiday-stressed shoppers.

Smile_Awhile · #3 10-21-2014, 02:20 AM

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Originally Posted by AGDee

I think it is way better to be able to go to bed at 10 or 11 pm, get up at 5:30 or 6 and be at work at 7 than it would be to leave your family's Thanksgiving dinner to be at work at 6 pm. Also, you could still have a couple beers or glasses of wine if you're not working until the next morning. If you're working that night, having any alcohol would be risky.

Yes, there are some service areas where you know that you'll have to work holidays. I don't think retail should be one of them.

This. I worked a Black Friday two years ago where I was due in at 11 PM or 12 AM, to stay through 8 AM. This required my husband and I driving back from Thanksgiving dinner around 7:30 PM from his family (1.5 hours from home), me changing clothes, and then headed to work. Your body clock gets thrown off, people are just rude, and the deals aren't even that great.

Maybe it's just the way my body functions, but I'd much rather sleep at a semi-normalish hour (the late PM hours) and get up crazy early (3 AM or 4) in order to be at work by 6 or 7 AM. Particularly if my schedule is going to be hell for the next few weeks (and in retail, it is always hell in December). I'd rather have a day with a closer to my natural circadian rhythm than pull an all-nighter and still work a 40 hour weekend.