Black Friday

[Chased]

Anyone heading out this Black Friday or purposely avoiding it? Last year I picked up an ABBA CD for roughly $3. I always go out every year just for the sake of seeing all the madness.

 

[everythingbeeps]

I avoid it. I mean, I still go out that day, but not until much later in the afternoon, and never for anything specific.

 

[Aris Khandr]

I enjoy the chaos. I'll enjoy it even more, since I won't have to work during the madness. Granted, that is a blessing and a curse, but I'll take the enjoyment I can from it.

 

[BatSpork]

Generally, I avoid Black Friday at all costs. I don't like being killed over a DVD player, thank you very much. However, working in retail, that isn't an option. I work at the Claire's in Texas in the South Plains Mall, and for some bizarre reason, the mall is going to be opening at midnight; Midnight Madness as their calling it. Lucky me, I get to be at work from 11:30 that night to 8:00 in the morning. Bleh.

 

[Xanadu84]

I keep thinking Black Friday is some memorial day for a war or something. I mean it does have a pretty... ominous name.

If you think the name is inappropriately ominous, you have probably never worked in retail

Never mind avoiding black friday, I avoid physical stores for Christmas shopping almost ENTIRELY. I order everything I can online, then go with my dad and brother to a mall for an hour, a few weeks before Christmas, run in and out and call it a holiday. I don't touch Black Friday with a 10 foot pole.

I also work in the produce department of a grocery store, so Thanksgiving is plenty ominois.

 

[Rednog]

In my honest opinion there really is no point to go out anymore for black friday, more and more places are just realizing that doing it online is less of a hassle.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

If I have to work I can't really avoid it but I try to avoid the madness. The few times that I have gone out though, it was long after stores opened so I missed good trampling action. Also, the stores still had a lot of stuff I would have bought if I had more money at the time. I don't think I work this Friday...but I do work Thursday so good for me (or rather, my wallet)

 

[SwagLordYoloson]

Black Friday? the day that a heap of people died in some crazy bush fire?

... oh wait 'Merica.. dude give us some background info

 

[Eggsnham]

Nope, I just wait for the inevitable horror stories.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Line lengths that are measured in hours, crowded stores, mobbing and trampling stories, all around chaos?

Nope!

 

[Amberella]

I am going out on Black Friday! My new job dubs it as a holiday and I get paid for it! Wooo!!!

I haven't gone in a 2 years I think, so I'm really looking forward to the deals I can get.

 

[Rin Little]

Black Friday is going to be the bane of my existence... Normally I would sit it out but no, I'm stuck working for Target so guess what I have to put up with all that day?

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

What's Black Friday?

I know what it is, it just doesn't really happen here...

 

[Vanbael]

I'm going to be at the back end of it pushing carts...at peak hours...with three hours of backlog because the scheduler is a derp. Likeliness of insanity is 50239458645%

 

[Helmet]

Black Friday is going to be the bane of my existence... Normally I would sit it out but no, I'm stuck working for Target so guess what I have to put up with all that day?

I work for Best Buy. I know your pain. And your hate.

I get the awesome shift of 9 Thanksgiving evening until 3 Black Friday afternoon. I want to bring a cattle prod to get people to leave me alone and get out of my way.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

My mother, aunt Jamie and I are going to Wal-Mart around Midnight.

I have to make sure my mom doesn't get trampled, you know.