Sux to have to work Friday after Thanksgiving?

decides2dream

pearljamjen wrote:

I had never heard of people working the day after Thanksgiving (except for retail/food service) before last year--there was a thread on the message pit. Before that I thought everyone got the day off as a public holiday.

actually, a LOT of careers have ALWAYS worked 24/7....365 days a year. workers in hospitals, police officers, any form of transportation and all involved employees, numerous service industries....gas station attendants and the like, etc. really....only office/education workers were the 'norm' for being off.

pearljamjen

decides2dream wrote:

actually, a LOT of careers have ALWAYS worked 24/7....365 days a year. workers in hospitals, police officers, any form of transportation and all involved employees, numerous service industries....gas station attendants and the like, etc. really....only office/education workers were the 'norm' for being off.

Oh, yep! That's what I meant, for office workers and such. It sounded like the OP worked in an office? I was just surprised as I hadn't heard of offices being open the day after Thanksgiving.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

i just quit to work from home, so now i dont have to work friday

decides2dream

pearljamjen wrote:

Oh, yep! That's what I meant, for office workers and such. It sounded like the OP worked in an office? I was just surprised as I hadn't heard of offices being open the day after Thanksgiving.

i think in our lovely information age, sadly one of the 'perks' of information availalbe 24/7....365.....is more and more 'office workers' do indeed, work such days. most especially those in IT depts i imagine.

zacman13245

I work on the Geek Squad. I have to be at Best Buy at 3:30am to start my day :( :(

SomethingCreative

comebackgirl wrote:

Lean cuisine makes a mean turkey dinner
Sorry SOS :(

mean as in what it does to your stomach?

LONGRD

Haha suckers, I don't!
Gotta a sweet 4-day weekend...

Including my 2-week vacation earlier, from November 8 to 30 I've only worked a total of days. :eek:

iamsampj

I've never had "black friday" off...oh the joy of working in retail. but...i always try to make the most of it. this year we're all dressing up in 80s glam rock gear I can't wait and I think it may be another record breaking day for us!!

celebration

the man pays me while on holidaze

i drink good red for that

Sprunkn7

_Crazy_Mary_ wrote:

whhaaaaaa! I've never had a Friday-after-Thanksgiving off. How's that for sux?

heh, that does suck.

Sprunkn7

Actually, working wasn't so bad. Left at 12pm but got paid for a whole day and spent the afternoon picking up my moms new Prius and registering her Honda to me. My car will be going in the bargain news, going to miss the gas guzzler I am. All in all a very productive day.

K.LO

Since I work at a movie theatre, I worked from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m....with no break. Next Thanksgiving hopefully I don't work so I can be thankful for not working.:p

BamaPJFan

I work for a university. We had the day before Thanksgiving off, as well as the day after Thanksgiving. We also have nearly a full two weeks off during the second half of December. Can't beat that with a stick.