Working For The Holidays

With Black Friday coming this week, many Americans will be camping out extra early because of the various sales that many retailers have. This also means that many people who work in retail stores will have to get up early (around 4 or 5 in the morning to be specific) to go to work. There are even some retail stores, like Macy's, Best Buy and Target, that open up at midnight to get as many people as they can into their stores. Now, for the common shopper, this may be great because they will be able to get the jump on some good deals, you have other people (*cough*retail employees*cough*) that would much rather be at home, enjoying the company of love ones, some of which probably coming from thousands of miles away, just to spend time with them for the holidays.

Anyway, what is your opinion on this? Do you think retail shops should close up for the holidays, even if it's every once in a while?

Those retail people also deserve to go home on the holidays. Why should they miss out?
If anything, these super sales need to happen BEFORE the fricking holidays, and have the day off.

Well, seeing as how I'm going in to work at 4pm on Thanksgiving, and working until 2am on Black Friday, I would have to say screw that.

But, when I realized that I wouldn't be getting any Holiday over pay, I about shot the place up.

We have thanksgiving dinner on friday, not thursday, and we don't care about the sales. Because of that, it's actually a bit of a tradition for us to drive around in the morning, and watch all the people in tents at best buy who are trying to get a discount on a TV...

Consumerism at its worst...