I read about that and was absolutely pissed off. Especially when I read that the customers continued to trample through while the EMTs were there trying to save the poor guy.
I think they should pull all the credit card slips and charge everyone of those people with manslaughter, if not murder.
I haven't done Black Friday shopping in a looooong time. Mostly either due to work or the fact that, really, that discount just isn't worth me getting out of bed in the morning when I can hang out with the family. Or watch bad television. Or read. Or so many other things.
The last black friday I worked in retail (read: not food service) was a B&N next to a Best Buy. People were mad at us for not being open at 5 a.m. or earlier (we opened at 8 that day, instead of 9) to sell them coffee. The employees at the Best Buy looked as if they had been through war. I felt bad for them.
That and I hate crowds. As wastrel pointed out, there's not always a full step. Especially when I hear tales from my employees about being out there and getting hit with shopping carts and what not. Ugh.
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Date: 2008-12-01 06:09 am (UTC)I think they should pull all the credit card slips and charge everyone of those people with manslaughter, if not murder.
I haven't done Black Friday shopping in a looooong time. Mostly either due to work or the fact that, really, that discount just isn't worth me getting out of bed in the morning when I can hang out with the family. Or watch bad television. Or read. Or so many other things.
The last black friday I worked in retail (read: not food service) was a B&N next to a Best Buy. People were mad at us for not being open at 5 a.m. or earlier (we opened at 8 that day, instead of 9) to sell them coffee. The employees at the Best Buy looked as if they had been through war. I felt bad for them.
That and I hate crowds. As wastrel pointed out, there's not always a full step. Especially when I hear tales from my employees about being out there and getting hit with shopping carts and what not. Ugh.