So what are you doing on Thanksgiving/Black Friday?

[Sedorna]

Well, I don't have my schedule yet, since they come up the Saturday before the week begins. However, since Thanksgiving is a volunteer only day and I'm not volunteering, I'll be off then. I bet dollars to donuts I'll also be off on Black Friday, since I work in a grocery store and the day *after* Thanksgiving really isn't all that busy.

[Sofar]

I don't cook on Thanksgiving. If I have to cook then it's not a holiday.

Yeah, well I'm gonna get stuck cooking for all the people who say that. I tend not to go out shopping or out to eat on holidays on general principle. If enough people stay home on holidays then maybe some shop owners will say to themselves: "Hmm, no one's here. Maybe sane people spend their holidays at home. From now on I'll close the shop on holidays!

[Ringtail Z28]

I may be out of retail but I have no intention on participating in a Black Friday. After putting up with six of them I will never bring myself to do it.

[erik316wttn]

I'm scheduled 5-130 on Black Friday. I've done 2 of them so far at Wal-Mart. Neither has been too bad, SC-wise. I hope that continues.

[Seanette]

Does no one know how to cook any more? I thought it was funny enough that at our butcher and delicatessan people were still lining up to buy frozen turkeys the day before Thanksgiving. I asked the owner: "Mister Stefanopolis, why are we still selling these huge frozen turkeys? There's no way anyone who buys one of these will have it thawed out by tomorrow evening."

And he replied, "Yes, but they won't find that out until tomorrow evening, now won't they?" He was evil. Good business man, though.

You can thaw a turkey overnight, in a suitable container (sink or possibly tub, depending on size(s)) of cold water. I do avoid the classic countertop thawing method, though.

[purplecat41877]

I put in a request off form for Thanksgiving. I'm planning to go to a pancake breakfast at my church.

[draftermatt]

I'll probably be off on Thanksgiving, but my wife will probably have to work (She's a nurse).

So who knows where I'll go for dinner (if anywhere). Then back to work on Black Friday.

[friendofjimmyk]

I'll be manning the dots on the GPS system.

I work on both turkey day and black Friday - but each day is time and a half plus an extra day of pay. Right now, I am scheduled to be off @ 3pm on turkey day - I will go and get some food at the function that NA is putting on that day. My family is 600 miles away on both sides (600 miles south or 600 milies north)

[AFpheonix]

We all volunteered for holiday shifts...I picked thanksgiving morning, so I get off at 4. Then I get to go to the farm and eat
I think I close on black friday, but since we're a drugstore, we don't really have a super huge selling blowout. There's a sale in the wee hours in the front of the store, but even then, it's not like we carry a whole lot of must-have stuff.

I might get up early and go to Freddies to partake of Black Friday sock sales..mmm..socks....

[Rocko]

I have Thanksgiving off, but I have to work on Black Friday. However, I work 10am to 7pm that day, so I get the benefit of missing the rush and I don't have to close. I will though be getting up early, as the associates get to shop for an hour before the store opens, that and I feel like seeing all the people that have been waiting in line to get in since before midnight.

[Department stores *sigh*]

forgive this naive canadian but Black Friday?

its probably something obviouse that i should know ro do but cant remember. Its just that in edmonton here we had a tornado back in 1987 that hit right in the middle of the city and that has come to be coined as 'Black Friday' around here.

[draftermatt]

forgive this naive canadian but Black Friday?

The traditional thought is that "troubled" stores right their negative cash flow (or debt) in red ink, and 0 or positive cash flow in black.

And since there are so many sales on the day after Thanksgiving the stores are all in the black.

[wagegoth]

forgive this naive canadian but Black Friday?

its probably something obviouse that i should know ro do but cant remember. Its just that in edmonton here we had a tornado back in 1987 that hit right in the middle of the city and that has come to be coined as 'Black Friday' around here.

Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the U.S. It's officially the first day of the Christmas shopping season.

My husband will be working the day shift Thanksgiving and Black Friday. That's one reason I don't get into big family productions at the holidays. He also will be working Christmas, New Year's, probably Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

Another reason is that the only family we have nearby is my mother-in-law, who's Jewish. My family is out-of-state and Jehovah's Witnesses. My husband's father is out-of-state and his stepmother is a brass-plated, jewel-encrusted, b***h on wheels.

The kids are up early to open presents on Christmas before he goes to work. Otherwise, we just hang out, break in the new toys (I'm hoping for a Wii!), cook something simple, although I may do a cake and pie for special, and enjoy having time together.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

forgive this naive canadian but Black Friday?

its probably something obviouse that i should know ro do but cant remember. Its just that in edmonton here we had a tornado back in 1987 that hit right in the middle of the city and that has come to be coined as 'Black Friday' around here.

Black Friday=the day after Thanksgiving and the busiest shopping day of the year for retailers.

The stores all open early and are generally packed. I'm talking wall-to-wall people. Nobody at my store will be given that day off.

[Department stores *sigh*]

ahhh understood. Yah our Thanksgiving is on october so we dont have an official start to the shopping season. Ours is like the comic image of rolling a snowball down a hil.....starts getting bigger and bigger and bigger etc etc etc