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Arctic16Hamilton Nolan
11/12/14 1:10pm
I still have some friends who work at Target from when I worked there for a year a few years back. Everyone is so upset that they're opening at 6 PM on Thanksgiving.

If you go shopping on Thanksgiving, you are a major asshole. That's all there is to it.
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  Yuji IdeArctic16
  11/12/14 1:13pm
  A Nintendo DS for 89.95 and a copy of "The Internship" on Blu-ray for 9 bucks? I'll fucking cut you.
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  JoshDigiArctic16
  11/12/14 1:19pm
  Retail employees who don't like working on Thanksgiving are waging a war against Christmas!
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Tom ScoccaHamilton Nolan
11/12/14 1:11pm
If you work in an Amazon dot Com warehouse, Black Friday Season has already been in effect for days:

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  sara8788Tom Scocca
  11/12/14 1:33pm
  I totally get that working on Thanksgiving royally sucks for these people, they have to deal with crazy people and they don't get to spend time with their families on the holiday. But, no one is forcing them to work that job. And before people start going crazy on me and saying "this might be the only job they can get!" isn't it better to have this job than nothing? There are people out there that can't even afford a turkey to make on Thanksgiving. There are people fighting for our country who don't get to see or talk to their families on holidays and yet people working at Walmart and Target on Thanksgiving are what is making headlines. Baffles me!
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  snatssara8788
  11/12/14 1:37pm
  Yeah, or the stores can just close on Thanksgiving like they did ten years ago. Seemed to work fine.
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1jaxstate1Hamilton Nolan
11/12/14 1:15pm
Welp, this year will be the first year I will be out and about. I'm finally upgrading to a full HD TV, up from my 1080i RCA.

"Walmart employees might complain about giving over their family holidays to their employer" - Would they get paid days off? If it wasn't paid vacation, I wouldn't want off. I know some Walmart people who don't really care to be off due to it being double pay [or something like that] for working holidays.
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  Russianist1jaxstate1
  11/12/14 1:50pm
  The problem is more that Walmart workers who would like to be off on Thanksgiving (without being paid) being told in so many words that if they don't come in they're fired.
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  JoshDigi1jaxstate1
  11/12/14 2:28pm
  Whatever you need to tell yourself so you can save a few bucks on a luxury item.
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GrumpyEagleHamilton Nolan
11/12/14 2:07pm
Look, I hate the Black Friday Specials Stampede as much as anyone, but for a lot of people, that $99 flatscreen or video game system IS a big deal. If you're making minimum wage, or have one partner out of work, that's really the only way you can afford something like that, no matter how trivial it may seem.

As far as ruining the family Thanksgiving Day with shopping, the Norman Rockwell image of a harmonious family gathering with the grandbabies gathered around Grandpa as he tells glowing tales of days gone by must be a lot more common than I thought. From my experience, most Thanksgivings include a lot of kitchen prep work in the morning, relatives drifting in around noon, a bit of politely restrained conversation until dinner's on the table (4pm-ish), a lengthy weepy prayer from a relative who's already broken into the wine, 40 minutes of feasting, an hour (or more) of cleanup, and everybody goes home. For those who came in from out of town, restlessness sets in soon after, resulting in hours of awkward conversation. Frankly, a trip to the mall or the movies afterwards isn't a bad idea (or even during meal prep - cooking in front of an audience that keeps stealing your ingredients or offering "advice" kind of sucks).
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  JoshDigiGrumpyEagle
  11/12/14 2:29pm
  I don't care if you are poor or a billionaire. You are ruining someone's holiday so you can MAYBE save a few bucks on a luxury item.
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  minimalbestGrumpyEagle
  11/12/14 2:42pm
  There is this odd concept called "saving". I know, it's really weird and out-dated.
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IAMBlastedBiggsLostBurnerHamilton Nolan
11/12/14 1:08pm
Why not just skip the whole bullshit charade, and say "Fuck you all! Come and stuff your fat, greasy faces full of delicious holiday savings, instead of that shitty-ass turkey! Money celebrates NO holidays, you simpering, mouth-breathing idiots! Our poorly paid drones have no fucking families (that we know of, or care to know of), so they'll be there, ready to shove hot, heaping piles of trumped up 'savings' down your stinking, gaping maws!"?
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  Yuji IdeIAMBlastedBiggsLostBurner
  11/12/14 1:10pm
  I need a cigarette.
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  IAMBlastedBiggsLostBurnerYuji Ide
  11/12/14 1:16pm
  Smoke 'em if ya got 'em....sometimes, I still miss it....
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Hip Brooklyn StereotypeHamilton Nolan
11/12/14 1:09pm
...lines of weary and dispirited low-income Americans fighting against one another for discounts in a grotesque display of capitalism's total mastery of humanity.

Top-notch.
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  allensmitheeHip Brooklyn Stereotype
  11/12/14 1:10pm
  Yeah, fuck those poors for wanting to buy Christmas presents for their families.
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  Hip Brooklyn Stereotypeallensmithee
  11/12/14 1:29pm
  
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Medieval KnievelHamilton Nolan
11/12/14 1:09pm
The sale will only last a week, but these bags will live on in landfills and random tree branches for centuries to come!
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  JoshDigiMedieval Knievel
  11/12/14 1:17pm
  Americans NEED their weekly 30 pack of Coca Cola and they sure as hell aren't gonna risk cutting their fat hands on that dangerous cardboard!
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  senseofproportionMedieval Knievel
  11/12/14 1:18pm
  yeah, I guess you're typing this on a biodegradable keyboard? no toxic stuff in the screen you're looking at? when your processor is washed up in a couple months/years you're going to plant the whole thing in the ground and a gorgeous oak tree will grow? all the internet tubes between your empty head and gawker's servers are powered by pure clean solar? fucking idiot hypocrit. maybe you can use the edge of one of your obsolete hard drive platters to slice your throat.
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Hip Brooklyn StereotypeHamilton Nolan
11/12/14 1:28pm
The maddening thing is that Wal-Mart is totally negligent for inciting the Black Friday riots we've come to know but there hasn't been a whole lot done in the way of punishment in the past.

Does anyone remember the Wal-Mart employee in Valley Stream who was trampled to death on Black Friday in 2008? Apparently, OSHA gave Wal-Mart a slap on the wrist to the tune of $7,000.
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  Yuji IdeHip Brooklyn Stereotype
  11/12/14 1:31pm
  That was 3/4 of that man's yearly salary, that's a pretty steep hit man.
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  amtHip Brooklyn Stereotype
  11/12/14 1:46pm
  Oh it doesn't end there. They paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to defend the case and in the end the case was thrown out.
  
  A lot of people were scratching their head on why Wal Mart was so aggressive and spent so much money to have a tiny fine thrown out, but they didn't want any precedence in the court system showing that a retailer could be liable for encouraging stampeding customers with their sales.
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hilikusopusHamilton Nolan
11/12/14 1:10pm
Not for Naughton, but fuck you, Mac.
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AdamJohnsonNYCHamilton Nolan
11/12/14 1:22pm

"'It used to be called Black Friday, then it became Thursday, now it's a week long,' said Wal-Mart U.S. chief merchant Duncan Mac Naughton. 'Maybe we should just call it November.'"

Okay, is it just me or is WalMart now literally casting itself as the heel in a wrestling match against liberalism, going before the audience to purposefully bait them into hating them more?
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