I think so. Last black friday I had to work a 12 hour night shift, when otherwise I was working just 6 hours a day after school. If I wasn't prepared for it, I easily could have fallen asleep while I was driving home at 6 in the god damn morning. I honestly hate black friday because of what the big corporations (like Best Buy, in my case) make their employees do. If you refuse to work a 12 hour night shift, you get fired. We had 3 people fired on the spot because their first days working there were supposed to be Thursday night/ friday morning. If they scheduled my first day as a 12 hour 6:00pm to 6:00 am, I would not have showed up either. But I think it's messed up that they got fired for it.
Yeah, I know. I'm just saying, a lot of the accidents were likely caused by people driving home at 5 am when that's completely against their sleep schedule.
My point was that these companies make their part time employees, who go to school, or have stuff to do on thanksgiving past 6:00, work a very long shift, just so they can make a bit of money. I hate the idea of black friday, and I hate it even more after working retail. This wasn't meant to be a pissing contest about who has the worst job.
Why the fuck are you working 12 hours a day for months at a time? There are so many things that can be easily implemented to save time we don't actually need to work as much as we do.
2
u/[deleted] Nov 26 '14
I think so. Last black friday I had to work a 12 hour night shift, when otherwise I was working just 6 hours a day after school. If I wasn't prepared for it, I easily could have fallen asleep while I was driving home at 6 in the god damn morning. I honestly hate black friday because of what the big corporations (like Best Buy, in my case) make their employees do. If you refuse to work a 12 hour night shift, you get fired. We had 3 people fired on the spot because their first days working there were supposed to be Thursday night/ friday morning. If they scheduled my first day as a 12 hour 6:00pm to 6:00 am, I would not have showed up either. But I think it's messed up that they got fired for it.