Eh, I dunno. I mean, it's retail. Having a horrible holiday is kind of the deal. I can't say for sure, but I'd honestly be surprised if a significant chunk of corporate management weren't working or on call themselves throughout Thanksgiving Day and almost certainly on Black Friday itself. The holiday season generates almost a fifth of the revenue a retail store will earn in any given year. And the economy needs spending right now.

If you want to say something to corporate America, do all your holiday shopping at small, locally owned stores. Get your friends to do the same. It won't make a huge difference in their bottom line, but you can feel better about not feeding the beast.

Not in my experience.

I worked for the late CompUSA at both the corporate hq in Dallas, as well as store management in Miami.

Corporate was closed on holidays. Period. Everything is handled at the store level, that is what's expected of the managers.

A store GM could probably get a regional boss on the phone, but otherwise, forget it.

@ the wharehouse Target employee's are scheduled as normal. We only close on Christmas day which sucks!! As I will be stuck @ work on Thanksgiving......

Sucks that 90% of the American workforce has no real say in their jobs. This sort of thing is only the norm because those up top say it is. The whole attitude of having a store open every day, regardless of any holiday or special circumstance is a bit sickening.

We sacrifice holiday's for other people's convenience. I dunno, just makes me sad.

While the whole midnight Black Friday shift may be new, what about all the people in the restaurant and bar industry that have been working on Thanksgiving and Christmas for as long as I can remember?

I'd much rather have a full holiday with my family, a bit of a nap, then pop off to work at 12.

The only real method of changing this is if no customers showed up at midnight–problem solved–but I think the Black Friday lines will be more ravenous then ever.

this is the wrong time to complain. a LOT? of people can't afford a normal thanksgiving dinner due to the unemployment situation.*deaf ears*

There are no holidays on the railroad. 3 shifts a day, every day. However there is double time and half for working a holiday.

I worked a Christmas night shift starting at 11:30 on the 25th. Because of those 30 minutes before the hour the entire shift was overtime. And since the work load was so slow that night we were finished in 2 hours and allowed to go home. Over $500 for 2 hours work. That's the power of having a union.

Not to sound like a douche but in this economy I'm willing to make sacrifices and be thankful that I have a job. Whether its thanksgiving or whatever. There's is troops serving so we don't have to in afghanistan and other shitty places. I know I'm a afghan combat veteran myself. We should just all be thankful some crazy leader hasn't nuclear bombed anything lately. Just voicing my opinion, not saying anyone else is wrong. Thanks

In my opinion this sounds like a bunch of spoiled brats whining cause they had to work a little harder! Times are rough I know for a fact there are thousands of people out there wishing they could work thanksgiving just to make a couple extra bucks to make it thru the month! Working holidays is part of the real world lots of people have to go into work no matter what time of year it is the world doesn't just stop turning cause the pilgrims had dinner with the indians a few hundred years ago.

Who the hell is going shopping at Midnight? And then all the way to sunrise.
This whole Black Friday thing is out of control, you'd think it was the next Twilight movie.

Just open like normal at 4 am.

The people who pay you, get to set policy. When you're an employee that's the company you work for issuing you a paycheck. If you want to get paid, you have to abide by their policies.

When you're a corporation, the people who pay you are called "customers". If you want to be profitable you must abide by their whims.

If customers refused to shop with retailers at ungodly hours then stores would not be open at ungodly hours.

I find it offensive that Best Buy is opening at midnight after Thanksgiving. As such, im not shopping there.Period. The end. I'm in a position to purchase more, high ticket gifts this year than at any time in the past five years. Best Buy isn't getting a cent of it.

The point? Consumers have allowed this. If consumers didn't show up with credit cards in hand, then it wouldn't happen. It's not "just retail". Its Your friends and neighbors that are sending employees to work at midnight. Corporate greed goes hand in hand with consumers generally being greedy assholes themselves..

I concur with you. Not to sound insensitive but I worked retail for many years...black Friday was certainly mandatory. The holidays are crazy...if you don't want to work a lot of hours/overtime than quit. That is how retail is. There are 10 people waiting in line for that position anyway.

This is stupid. You work retail. You work crazy hours. The end.