@augustlan Aw, that’s terrible. I hope she gets through it ok. I can’t believe they’re making a seventeen-year-old work a shift like that. Sometimes my family has Thanksgiving early in the afternoon or even at lunch to accommodate people’s schedules. Is it possible to have an earlier gathering with your daughter so she can get some sleep before work?
The holidays can be such an exhausting time of year if you work retail. The employees wouldn’t have to be there if customers hadn’t created a demand for it. Employees can protest, but as long as there are people who need jobs and people who want to shop at these events, the stores will be open at these hours.
To me it just seems like a sad spectacle full of excess and greed. People are going to these great lengths to get things like electronics, fancy toys, and designer clothes- luxury items. None of the things at Black Friday sales seem like things people actually need, and seeing people pushing and shoving each other to get these things during the middle of the night makes me think our priorities are really messed up. The only way it will change is if there’s no money in it for the companies, and I think the whole thing is pretty heinous anyway, so I never shop at these sales.