For me, it wasn't even Black Friday. It was the three solid weeks in March 2020, when Covid 19 first started to become a problem. We were getting dry grocery trucks 3 times a day, and we still couldn't keep certain items (especially toilet paper) in stock. At one point, I remember trying to get down the aisle, a box in each hand (they're big boxes, but they weigh hardly anything). I got maybe halfway down the aisle, and I was holding two empty boxes. It took Walmart corporate until the end of March to get off their thumbs and impose a "one package per person" policy, as well as allowing us to block off the aisle until it was fully restocked.
If I had customers come up and start pulling products out of boxes I'm carrying, those boxes would be hitting the ground and I'd be throwing hands. That is so unbelievably rude.
@@badwolfhunter221b if only we could do stuff like that... unfortunately, we were "essential yet disposable", not "essential essential" during that time.
Oh I remember those days. It wws great for me, working in a supermarket. Produce and toilet paper were completely sold out, so stocking shelves basically turned intovthrowing items in the right direction and I could tell basically every customer we were out of everything
I currently work at GameStop. The people who are already bitching about not being able to find PS5's and Series X's are driving me up the wall. Don't yell at the store associates, we can't control inventory or delivery. Yell at CORPORATE who make their dumb decisions and then throw us to the wolves!
Lol that's because we're disposable. No point in screaming at rude customers and getting fired when you can just try and get your job done as fast as you can so they'll leave faster.
Pre-Covid, our Walmart was open 24/7, so Black Friday lines were inside at designated points. My brothers were looking at something and people started to queue behind them. Instead of telling them it wasn't a line, they kept quiet. Forty minutes later, the line now fifty people deep, my brother announced he didn't want the product and walked off. Took the line a few seconds to realize they weren't a line. Also saw a woman in a motorized scooter clear crowds of people like Moses did with the Red Sea. It was brilliant. If I ever do Black Friday, I'm bringing a scooter.
I’m so glad the toy store worker called the cops. My mother used to drop my brother and I off at the Disney Store or sometimes other kids stores while she went shopping for hours. We thought this was normal and didn’t learn how not-normal it was until college. I didn’t fully realize how dangerous it was until I had my own kid and my blood ran cold at the thought of leaving my 4-year-old in a toy store while I went to a totally different mall. And my mother did this way before cell phones were common so there was absolutely no way to contact her if there was an emergency. Lots of the employees at these stores noticed that we were there for several hours all alone and they kept an eye on us, but they never once called security or the cops. I really wish someone had.
I always feel so sorry for those who work retail. Not only dealing with jerk customers, but good heavens, having to listen to christmas music 24/7 from halloween to new years. That alone would cause me to go off half popped. Lol
Yeah, no kidding!!!!! I used to work at Goody's Family Clothing years ago, and I can't even begin to tell you how many times customers would complain to me and other employees about the managers playing Christmas music the day after Halloween. The complaints got so bad that the managers grudgingly agreed to switch back to regular music until Black Friday
I used to work at a donut shop for 2 years, and the only thing that pissed me off more than the rude customers was the lack in variety of music. I swear, the district manager wouldn't allow us to make our own playlist, not even my manager (and they were cool with our music suggestions)and one of my coworkers had dedicated his time to making the store a great playlist. all we ever listened to were "popular pop music" ON LOOP.
When I worked retail during the holidays, the ceaseless BEEPBEEPBEEP of twenty registers scanning as fast as they could drowned out the Christmas music. I preferred the beeps.
I worked for Sears during the 1970's. "Black Friday" was the ONLY day of the year where every single employee was required to come to work. If you called in sick, you were required to provide a note from an MD.
I did ONE Black Friday event. Got to the store a few minutes after it opened, walked right in, got the sale item I wanted, then some other items, then checked out and went home. There were a few other customers in the store with me. Okay, it was Whole Foods and a great sale on tamales. So, while everyone was mobbing into retail stores, I cruised in and cruised out easy peasy lemon squeezy.
Also should salute the truck team who have to unload and have to stock those shelves after....worse have to work as 2-3 times faster when people in their team calls out.....mind you truck team only consists of about 14 to 15 people...during these times get 2-3 trucks.....
I think the worst part about working on Black Friday is how unbelievably rude customers can be to the employee. Especially after already working an extremely hard, long grueling shift. Be nice to associates people, they are already having a terrible day.
I work retail, One of my favorite days to work. It makes the day go fast. One awkward stories that stood out. You see A mom and herdaughter approx 11yrs old. They came into my line, mom made the daughter pay for her maxi pads and other feminine products Mom states out loud that she just got her 1st period. The young girl turned 20 shades of “red”. Mom wanted to teach daughter that it’s a fact of life. I felt bad for the kid but told them not to be embarrassed about it and it happens to all girls her age.
Worked at Wal-Mart one year during the holidays. In a ten hour shift on the express register (I was damn fast), I never saw the end of my line. It was scan-scan-scan, as fast as you can, forever. The part that amazed me was how many bad scans there were. Cashiers have less than zero authority, so every time you have an item that either doesn't scan or scans as something other than it is, your whole line stops dead until a CSM can come over and resolve it for you. A stopped line is losing several dollars per second on top of the cost in customer morale. I could have sold 50% more shit EASY, and the customers would have been happier, if whoever was supposed to get items into the register system had just done their #$*(ing job. This was all day, every day, so I can only assume the bigwigs had some bean counter somewhere do the math and decided a ton of errors was better than paying someone to fix things. Sure didn't seem that way to me.
And this is why my family has created a tradition of NEVER going to the store on Black Friday. Hell, we don’t even drive anywhere if we can help it. Too many pushy deal seekers driving like idiots.
I worked at a sporting goods store for some of my black Fridays. They switched their sales to 6am that day when all the big stores around us were doing it midnight that day. So everyone was basically asleep from hitting the big stores already and it was dead af. I loved it
Thankfully for me. It wasn't that bad with the years i was working most i had was people tried to use coupons on top of the Sale already. But luckily they were understanding
My black friday horror story was that there wasn't one. My sister and I went with my mom and grandmother to Target on black friday a few years ago (i think i was in my tweens). I was excited to see the chaos unfold as people shoved eachother for shoes or whatever. But there were barely any people there. And this was early in the morning too, when black just begins. Definitely no fights at all. I was pretty disappointed, actually. 🤣
I worked at a place that wasn’t by a whole lot of other places with major Black Friday deals in 2020 and when I showed up at 8am, even the clearance section had been tidied up because all the employees were so bored because barely anyone showed up. First year that had happened apparently. Needless to say most of us got to go home early. This year it was a little busier but not like previous years, tho I called out sick that day so I wasn’t there (at least they got to save hours from me). Weird times.
I was working for a now-defunct furniture/home goods store on Black Friday one year, checking out customers with dozens of sparkly Christmas ornaments to the point where I had nightmares about it. Bless my mother who braved the hordes to bring us all homemade cupcakes because it was my birthday. I've also worked Black Friday at a car dealership, but that was, oddly enough, a quieter day for us. Now, the TRULY terrifying time to work at a dealership is tax season between February and April. It was nonstop running all day, every day. There were nights when we'd be there signing deals until midnight because people walked in at 8:55 (we closed at 9) cash in hand and ready to buy.
Re: the "poop on the walls" at Starbucks. I was with some friends and we were eating at a fast-food place. In walks Super Hippie, backpack and all, long hair and looks like he hadn't showered or shaved in about four years. Not sure if he was homeless (we're in a 'burb so we don't see much of that). He walks right into the men's room, in there about 15 minutes and comes on & leaves the place without ordering food or anything. A few minutes later some other customer goes in and immediately comes out retching and gets the manager to let him know someone did the same thing in the men's room. I still have this image of Super Hippy burned into my photographic memory, and if I ever see him again I'll certainly confront him, but he hasn't ever been back, as would be expected. Not sure why any sane human would do such a thing, but then, there's your reason. The main manager and a worker bee cleaned the place (we know the manager), and I've got to give them credit as some managers would just tell their workers to do it. People that do that stuff should be committed for an evaluation for sure. Like the last clip, we also refuse to go to Best Buy on Black Friday after one experience. Our sons and I waited in line for something years ago in front of a store, getting there at 5AM. Our boys were 10 & 12 or so, I don't recall what the item(s) were, but we were like seventh in line, and the ad said they had "200 in stock per store" for Black Friday, so we figured it might be worth it as the price was REALLY low. The doors open, we find the table right by the door, and there are THREE of what we wanted there, with the three people in front of them picking them up. All that for nothing, so I find a manager and ask him how many that store had to start with - and he says "Four". FOUR? YOU ADVERTISED 200! We haven't been to a BB since, and THAT was 29 years ago. I understand the bait & switch concept fine, but if you're making a habit of it, I'm not dealing with you at all. Fortunately, when our kids were younger we made sure they understood the economies and trends of the latest fad, and how waiting a bit would save them plenty of money.
I work at a home improvement store with a fondness for aprons of a certain citrus color. Black Friday this year was reasonably tame in our store, just busy. I work in order fulfillment (going and fetching people's online orders for them to pick up) and it wasn't too bad.
I work over nights stocking, and the morning of Black Friday (the one that just happened) at 5am, someone got into the store through a side entrance and stole four TV's. We got them back because his CAB DRIVER turned him in.
I actually grew up close to our local mall. There are at least 5 different ways to drive there and a myriad of ways to walk there. My family could not exit our house on Black Friday because we would have gotten squished. We lived about 5 blocks away. We had to get all shopping we needed done by the 23rd of November so that we would be OK and not starve. The Police have even had to block off the highway entrance because it gets so backed up. There are also several strip malls there too. I grew up in the middle of a shopping area. Everyone had to go to the mall first though... My Parents still live there.
The complete 🐂💩 excuse the manager gave at 3:22 has me soooo upset like what the helllllllll?!?!? So she’s saying that Just because you’re “young” , you don’t have a family worth spending time with on the holidays??😵💫🥴🥴🥱. #iDontEvenHaveAnEmojiToProperlyResond
Walmart bakery cake OP: good for you. Glad you got to enjoy the show and watch the show. Your manager is gross. Wgaf is someone has a family? Single people shouldn’t be punished for someone else’s lifestyle choice.
Black Friday. The day we see the results of angry people versus scoring cheap hot new item. GSWs. Stabbings. Heart attacks. Assaults. Broken bones. Crush injuries. Trampling. Seen it all. Here’s a secret. Wait. The item will come out even cheaper closer to Christmas.
6:55 I have had to do this on normal days and inform people to only use chip and pin, I could not even imagine what that would be like on a Black Friday day! I’d likely have stopped and begged my manager to close the shop (we’re only an express store anyway so we don’t stock anything that people can’t go without)
Holiday shopping is going to be very interesting this year in the US; costs of everything are going through the roof and people are refusing to work, so no money.
Worked at chick fil a. On Black Friday we ran a buy one get on free 30 count nuggets. from open to close it was minimum 2 hour wait. That didn’t stop anyone. We were extremely understaffed for a slightly busy day, let alone the single highest sales day in our store history. Had all fryers running nuggets and still couldn’t keep up. CFA sucks.
my sister works/used to work at Victoria secret (she is maternity leave and isnt sure if she'll come back). she did work black friday. she lived 2 hours away and really couldnt come for thanksgiving even if she worked on the friday. she says the reason how stores can sell something usually expensive for dirt cheap.....is a cheaply made version of said product. its still a name brand but they use cheaper parts (goes for electronics and even clothes)
Lost $2000 in product from blood splatter and had to close down the toy isle and cops were also called. Two men almost killed each other over a cocomelon doll. The doll was $20.00. The blood was splattered all over the toys in that section. They went straight into a brawl over a doll. ...I'll never forget that
I worked at a JC Penney Outlet Store outside of Dallas, Tx for 6 years in the children's dept. For each of the 6 years I was at that crappy store I had to open the entire dept (boys, girls, infants and toddlers) by myself from 6 am to 10 am. I literally saw mothers dragging their kids into the store still wearing their pj's. And when they got to the racks of clothes instead of just moving the clothes aside, they would take them off the racks and then drop them on the floor. Plus during this time, I was also responsible for price checks, complaints, and merchandise pickups. We also had quite a number of family's from a certain foreign country that would every year try to scam the store by buying everything they could grab during the Black Friday sales, then they would return when the sale was over and want their money back. But they would want the money back from the current price and not when it was on sale. Like they would get a shirt on BF for $2.99. But when they come back on Monday to get their refund, they would want the money for the item at the current $9.99 price.
I'm glad I've never had to work on Black Friday, mainly because my place of work is closed both Thanksgiving and the day after, but I did end up at Best Buy one Black Friday just to do some Christmas shopping; OMG the checkout line was ridiculous!
Me and some friends use to make pretty good money on black Fridays. Back when they just let everyone crowd the doors then open them to release the flood lol. The last one I remember was Sears (ya I'm old lol) they where giving out tickets to get washer/dryer for like $200 under the normal price. I'm a big dude almost 7 foot and 300lbs so when they opened the door I just body blocked it so my 2 smaller friends could get in and get a huge head start to get us each a ticket. Ended up selling them for $100 each lol
Not exactly for Black Friday but when I worked graveyard shift, the day of and day after holidays and what not weren’t that bad when going to the grocery store at 6am. Your able to get the first dibs of discounted stuff. Definitely took advantage of being off at 6am and not being far from home with a 24hr store on the way
Children, if your manager dismisses your concerns about security. Write it up, send it to corporate and get the F*CK out of that job. It doesn't matter if it's janitorial, retail, technical, medical or anything else. IF YOUR UPPER MANAGEMENT IS NOT WILLING TO ALLOW YOU TO BE SAFE - LEAVE! No job is worth your life, no matter how much your boss cries, whines and tries to guilt-trip you.
I can't understand why people act like such A-holes over Black Friday, after spending the day before, SUPPOSEDLY being thankful for what they already have. I shopped on Black Friday, at the insistence of my sister ONCE!! Never will do it again.
I only worked at grocery stores on Black Friday it was mildly busy mainly people grabbing prepared food to go. I was lucky enough not to work in a busy shopping center.
That furniture store one my god now image TVs instead of that people buying the largest TVs and come to target with the smallest car possible and refuse to either lower the seat or call for another car and then come back to complain or return it
It's not my story but I worked at Walmart between 2008-2010 at that time I believe a majority of the Walmarts would actually shut their doors for a few hours before Black Friday shopping would commence and in that short time. I worked there there's an associate in New York that was trampled to death upon opening the doors it was so bad that I believe the EMTs even had a hard time getting to him and working because nobody would stop trampling this poor man it was the very next year that Walmart kept their doors open letting people trickle in and if they had to go to the bathroom giving them for all intents and purposes a hall pass to where they would get their spot right back and it wouldn't be cutting
I never do black friday...well the chaos part. only time close was me and my siblings sharing a car back to our respected homes on thanksgiving. we decided to check target (only if we found a parking spot which we did) not to buy...just see the crazyness. it was shocking. never seen a line that big before. basically was a line to get on the line to get on the checkout lines. i do check out black friday at stores I can walk to but not madness types. though since it began this past friday. did take advantage. got a nice new $250 jacket for $80 at macys
I highly doubt the credit card got charged several times for that lady. The card processer probably authorized it several times and charged it twice. If the card is authorized, the charge will show as pending until the funds are removed from the account by the recieving party. Probably brought in a print out, not an actual statement
This was at least 15 years ago. There was a line outside of an electronics store waiting to purchase the lastest hottest gaming system. There were a limited number of said systems. For this story let's say there were 10 systems. So a store employee walked down the line to inform customer number 11 of this, so they probably wouldn't be getting one. The customer's solution was to pull out a gun and shoot two of the people waiting in line ahead of him.
Smart move. I make it a policy to not enter ANY store from Black Friday to Cyber Monday. Too many people, too much noise, mayhem levels through the freaking roof. Nope.
Oh where to begin... Watched two grown adult men in a knock-down drag-out fistfight over the last holiday Barbie. Had a nice manager get almost crushed to death by the surge when she unlocked the doors. Got knocked to the floor/ nearly trampled by the surge when they sent me out the stockroom door with a cart full of Game Boys. Got yelled at by a customer (the night after Black Friday) because we should 'Only stock when the store is closed' Yeah lady, once a year won't cut it. Countless people wanting the sale items 2-3 days later. Yeah pal, those were gone in five minutes.
Working retail has made me realize that most of the general public is so fucking stupid. Luckily this past Black Friday I didn’t have a single issue with a customer. But the weekend after was terrible.
24:15 guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Today was my last day working at Walmart and I can promise you I've been payed time and a half for holidays.
Easily the stampede and riots.I took one look at that mob ,and harnessed my inner usain bolt tf on outta there.oh,hell,no.y'all do not pay me enough to be trampled.me?work black friday? You best pay me combat pay. Some folk clearly ain't got no home training
I'm one of those guys that gets mad at the workers. But it seems that it's the only way to get what I want. Oh well. Don't like the field, then leave I always say.
For me, it wasn't even Black Friday. It was the three solid weeks in March 2020, when Covid 19 first started to become a problem. We were getting dry grocery trucks 3 times a day, and we still couldn't keep certain items (especially toilet paper) in stock. At one point, I remember trying to get down the aisle, a box in each hand (they're big boxes, but they weigh hardly anything). I got maybe halfway down the aisle, and I was holding two empty boxes.
It took Walmart corporate until the end of March to get off their thumbs and impose a "one package per person" policy, as well as allowing us to block off the aisle until it was fully restocked.
We had the same where I worked, the store went from 24 hours to day time only just so we could stock the shelves without being abused by panic buyers
If I had customers come up and start pulling products out of boxes I'm carrying, those boxes would be hitting the ground and I'd be throwing hands. That is so unbelievably rude.
@@badwolfhunter221b if only we could do stuff like that... unfortunately, we were "essential yet disposable", not "essential essential" during that time.
Oh I remember those days. It wws great for me, working in a supermarket. Produce and toilet paper were completely sold out, so stocking shelves basically turned intovthrowing items in the right direction and I could tell basically every customer we were out of everything
@@droth1031 As a Target worker... we're still "essential yet disposable."
I currently work at GameStop. The people who are already bitching about not being able to find PS5's and Series X's are driving me up the wall. Don't yell at the store associates, we can't control inventory or delivery. Yell at CORPORATE who make their dumb decisions and then throw us to the wolves!
What’s worse is scalpers still buying them making it impossible to find them.
Black Friday in America seems to bring out the worst in people, but somehow never the workers
Lol that's because we're disposable. No point in screaming at rude customers and getting fired when you can just try and get your job done as fast as you can so they'll leave faster.
TBF - you never hear about the millions of people who go shopping on Black Friday and *don't* make a fool of themselves.
If Krampus was real, a large majority of Black Friday shoppers wouldn’t last past the 25th.
Nah, Krampus wouldn’t stand a chance against these crazies ;3.
Pre-Covid, our Walmart was open 24/7, so Black Friday lines were inside at designated points. My brothers were looking at something and people started to queue behind them. Instead of telling them it wasn't a line, they kept quiet. Forty minutes later, the line now fifty people deep, my brother announced he didn't want the product and walked off. Took the line a few seconds to realize they weren't a line.
Also saw a woman in a motorized scooter clear crowds of people like Moses did with the Red Sea. It was brilliant. If I ever do Black Friday, I'm bringing a scooter.
I’m so glad the toy store worker called the cops.
My mother used to drop my brother and I off at the Disney Store or sometimes other kids stores while she went shopping for hours.
We thought this was normal and didn’t learn how not-normal it was until college. I didn’t fully realize how dangerous it was until I had my own kid and my blood ran cold at the thought of leaving my 4-year-old in a toy store while I went to a totally different mall.
And my mother did this way before cell phones were common so there was absolutely no way to contact her if there was an emergency.
Lots of the employees at these stores noticed that we were there for several hours all alone and they kept an eye on us, but they never once called security or the cops.
I really wish someone had.
I always feel so sorry for those who work retail. Not only dealing with jerk customers, but good heavens, having to listen to christmas music 24/7 from halloween to new years. That alone would cause me to go off half popped. Lol
Yeah, no kidding!!!!! I used to work at Goody's Family Clothing years ago, and I can't even begin to tell you how many times customers would complain to me and other employees about the managers playing Christmas music the day after Halloween. The complaints got so bad that the managers grudgingly agreed to switch back to regular music until Black Friday
I used to work at a donut shop for 2 years, and the only thing that pissed me off more than the rude customers was the lack in variety of music. I swear, the district manager wouldn't allow us to make our own playlist, not even my manager (and they were cool with our music suggestions)and one of my coworkers had dedicated his time to making the store a great playlist. all we ever listened to were "popular pop music" ON LOOP.
There should be a law making it a felony to play Christmas music before Thanksgiving and after January 1st.
@@Gloria-ro4vn lol
When I worked retail during the holidays, the ceaseless BEEPBEEPBEEP of twenty registers scanning as fast as they could drowned out the Christmas music. I preferred the beeps.
I worked for Sears during the 1970's. "Black Friday" was the ONLY day of the year where every single employee was required to come to work. If you called in sick, you were required to provide a note from an MD.
I did ONE Black Friday event. Got to the store a few minutes after it opened, walked right in, got the sale item I wanted, then some other items, then checked out and went home. There were a few other customers in the store with me. Okay, it was Whole Foods and a great sale on tamales. So, while everyone was mobbing into retail stores, I cruised in and cruised out easy peasy lemon squeezy.
To the people who worked/have worked Black Friday I salute you
Also should salute the truck team who have to unload and have to stock those shelves after....worse have to work as 2-3 times faster when people in their team calls out.....mind you truck team only consists of about 14 to 15 people...during these times get 2-3 trucks.....
@@2s1t0b4k yes totally agree with you! Yet mine talks about anyone and everyone who did because my sentence is extremely vague
@@donnagregory1053 I was just adding to yours some people don't think on how things get on the shelf...
I think the worst part about working on Black Friday is how unbelievably rude customers can be to the employee. Especially after already working an extremely hard, long grueling shift. Be nice to associates people, they are already having a terrible day.
What I hate is how costumers can’t understand that we can’t give rain checks for Black Friday sales.
The comment, “Radio Shack: You have questions, we have blank stares,” made me laugh.
I work retail, One of my favorite days to work. It makes the day go fast. One awkward stories that stood out. You see A mom and herdaughter approx 11yrs old. They came into my line, mom made the daughter pay for her maxi pads and other feminine products Mom states out loud that she just got her 1st period. The young girl turned 20 shades of “red”. Mom wanted to teach daughter that it’s a fact of life. I felt bad for the kid but told them not to be embarrassed about it and it happens to all girls her age.
That’s actually horrible I wouldn’t talk to my mom for a while if she did that
Worked at Wal-Mart one year during the holidays. In a ten hour shift on the express register (I was damn fast), I never saw the end of my line. It was scan-scan-scan, as fast as you can, forever.
The part that amazed me was how many bad scans there were. Cashiers have less than zero authority, so every time you have an item that either doesn't scan or scans as something other than it is, your whole line stops dead until a CSM can come over and resolve it for you. A stopped line is losing several dollars per second on top of the cost in customer morale. I could have sold 50% more shit EASY, and the customers would have been happier, if whoever was supposed to get items into the register system had just done their #$*(ing job. This was all day, every day, so I can only assume the bigwigs had some bean counter somewhere do the math and decided a ton of errors was better than paying someone to fix things. Sure didn't seem that way to me.
And this is why my family has created a tradition of NEVER going to the store on Black Friday. Hell, we don’t even drive anywhere if we can help it. Too many pushy deal seekers driving like idiots.
I worked at a sporting goods store for some of my black Fridays. They switched their sales to 6am that day when all the big stores around us were doing it midnight that day. So everyone was basically asleep from hitting the big stores already and it was dead af. I loved it
Thankfully for me. It wasn't that bad with the years i was working most i had was people tried to use coupons on top of the Sale already. But luckily they were understanding
As black Friday approaches and my hate for my job grows, bring on the chaos
Former retail worker: *it's true...all of it*
My black friday horror story was that there wasn't one. My sister and I went with my mom and grandmother to Target on black friday a few years ago (i think i was in my tweens). I was excited to see the chaos unfold as people shoved eachother for shoes or whatever. But there were barely any people there. And this was early in the morning too, when black just begins. Definitely no fights at all. I was pretty disappointed, actually. 🤣
I worked at a place that wasn’t by a whole lot of other places with major Black Friday deals in 2020 and when I showed up at 8am, even the clearance section had been tidied up because all the employees were so bored because barely anyone showed up. First year that had happened apparently. Needless to say most of us got to go home early. This year it was a little busier but not like previous years, tho I called out sick that day so I wasn’t there (at least they got to save hours from me). Weird times.
ok that guy army crawling on a shelf for 70% off a microwave is my hero lmao
This is why I like to buy online as much as possible
I was working for a now-defunct furniture/home goods store on Black Friday one year, checking out customers with dozens of sparkly Christmas ornaments to the point where I had nightmares about it. Bless my mother who braved the hordes to bring us all homemade cupcakes because it was my birthday.
I've also worked Black Friday at a car dealership, but that was, oddly enough, a quieter day for us. Now, the TRULY terrifying time to work at a dealership is tax season between February and April. It was nonstop running all day, every day. There were nights when we'd be there signing deals until midnight because people walked in at 8:55 (we closed at 9) cash in hand and ready to buy.
Re: the "poop on the walls" at Starbucks. I was with some friends and we were eating at a fast-food place. In walks Super Hippie, backpack and all, long hair and looks like he hadn't showered or shaved in about four years. Not sure if he was homeless (we're in a 'burb so we don't see much of that). He walks right into the men's room, in there about 15 minutes and comes on & leaves the place without ordering food or anything. A few minutes later some other customer goes in and immediately comes out retching and gets the manager to let him know someone did the same thing in the men's room. I still have this image of Super Hippy burned into my photographic memory, and if I ever see him again I'll certainly confront him, but he hasn't ever been back, as would be expected. Not sure why any sane human would do such a thing, but then, there's your reason. The main manager and a worker bee cleaned the place (we know the manager), and I've got to give them credit as some managers would just tell their workers to do it. People that do that stuff should be committed for an evaluation for sure.
Like the last clip, we also refuse to go to Best Buy on Black Friday after one experience. Our sons and I waited in line for something years ago in front of a store, getting there at 5AM. Our boys were 10 & 12 or so, I don't recall what the item(s) were, but we were like seventh in line, and the ad said they had "200 in stock per store" for Black Friday, so we figured it might be worth it as the price was REALLY low. The doors open, we find the table right by the door, and there are THREE of what we wanted there, with the three people in front of them picking them up. All that for nothing, so I find a manager and ask him how many that store had to start with - and he says "Four". FOUR? YOU ADVERTISED 200!
We haven't been to a BB since, and THAT was 29 years ago. I understand the bait & switch concept fine, but if you're making a habit of it, I'm not dealing with you at all.
Fortunately, when our kids were younger we made sure they understood the economies and trends of the latest fad, and how waiting a bit would save them plenty of money.
XD
I work at a home improvement store with a fondness for aprons of a certain citrus color. Black Friday this year was reasonably tame in our store, just busy. I work in order fulfillment (going and fetching people's online orders for them to pick up) and it wasn't too bad.
14:04 Omg, I love a good John Mulaney reference! 😂😂😂
I work over nights stocking, and the morning of Black Friday (the one that just happened) at 5am, someone got into the store through a side entrance and stole four TV's. We got them back because his CAB DRIVER turned him in.
I always love the one about the two old women fighting over a calculator from one thread about this.
I actually grew up close to our local mall. There are at least 5 different ways to drive there and a myriad of ways to walk there. My family could not exit our house on Black Friday because we would have gotten squished. We lived about 5 blocks away. We had to get all shopping we needed done by the 23rd of November so that we would be OK and not starve. The Police have even had to block off the highway entrance because it gets so backed up. There are also several strip malls there too. I grew up in the middle of a shopping area. Everyone had to go to the mall first though... My Parents still live there.
im about to have my first retail black friday this month lol
Get ready for a shitshow
How'd it go
@@tidepodpadthai2633 not too bad lol
My fiancé is finishing up is black Friday weekend today, and I've never seen a more tired being than they were for the past 4 days.
If I ever get the chance to do Black Friday, I'm going for the big one.
I'm heading to Mall of America.
I was was there working at Sephora…IT WAS INSANE…
Tomorrow's gonna be my first black friday since I started working at walmart. I'm in the apparel section so hopefully it won't be *too* chaotic :|
Good luck today!! 🤞🏻
Lol yesterday was my first black Friday at Walmart but I'm in OGP so it wasn't that bad lol. Although every time I passed electronics....
@@tsukarikaoru dang, I'm kinda surprised to hear OGP wasn't bad. Seems like they're always backed up or something at my store
The complete 🐂💩 excuse the manager gave at 3:22 has me soooo upset like what the helllllllll?!?!? So she’s saying that Just because you’re “young” , you don’t have a family worth spending time with on the holidays??😵💫🥴🥴🥱. #iDontEvenHaveAnEmojiToProperlyResond
Walmart bakery cake OP: good for you. Glad you got to enjoy the show and watch the show. Your manager is gross. Wgaf is someone has a family? Single people shouldn’t be punished for someone else’s lifestyle choice.
*Has flashback of looking at the store’s door like Erin looking at the Colossal Titan.*
Black Friday. The day we see the results of angry people versus scoring cheap hot new item.
GSWs. Stabbings. Heart attacks. Assaults. Broken bones. Crush injuries. Trampling. Seen it all.
Here’s a secret. Wait. The item will come out even cheaper closer to Christmas.
I'm getting the sense that Black Friday is basically The Purge in retail environments.
LOLOL THAT LINE STORY I laughed till I had tears
17:15 they usually gave a handheld computer to the operator so they could answer questions like that.
My first job was Walmart, my first day was Black Friday
6:55 I have had to do this on normal days and inform people to only use chip and pin, I could not even imagine what that would be like on a Black Friday day! I’d likely have stopped and begged my manager to close the shop (we’re only an express store anyway so we don’t stock anything that people can’t go without)
The thing I miss the most is Black Friday fights
Holiday shopping is going to be very interesting this year in the US; costs of everything are going through the roof and people are refusing to work, so no money.
What is it with some people? A few discounted items makes them lose all sensibility 🤷🏻♀️
Black Friday should be renamed the Running of the Fools.
Worked at chick fil a. On Black Friday we ran a buy one get on free 30 count nuggets. from open to close it was minimum 2 hour wait. That didn’t stop anyone. We were extremely understaffed for a slightly busy day, let alone the single highest sales day in our store history. Had all fryers running nuggets and still couldn’t keep up. CFA sucks.
Bout to work my first Black Friday at a farm supply/sporting goods store. I'm prepared for hell.
18:00 this whole sequence is retail in a nutshell
my sister works/used to work at Victoria secret (she is maternity leave and isnt sure if she'll come back). she did work black friday. she lived 2 hours away and really couldnt come for thanksgiving even if she worked on the friday. she says the reason how stores can sell something usually expensive for dirt cheap.....is a cheaply made version of said product. its still a name brand but they use cheaper parts (goes for electronics and even clothes)
It is 10x worse in some communities.
I did 5 years at a Jcpenny and one year in Afghanistan. Afghanistan was easier.
Lost $2000 in product from blood splatter and had to close down the toy isle and cops were also called. Two men almost killed each other over a cocomelon doll. The doll was $20.00. The blood was splattered all over the toys in that section. They went straight into a brawl over a doll. ...I'll never forget that
Excuse me? A DOLL? Just get it online???
@@Djdjndxjsnd It was a very high demand item and people were buying them in bulk to sell them for like $50.00 to $100.00
Where I worked, the morning of Black Friday we would be _dead!_ That afternoon it would puck up, but the next day the throngs would come...
As someone who lives in Canada; I have no horror stories to tell you as horror shows are virtually unheard of up here during Black Friday.
I worked at a JC Penney Outlet Store outside of Dallas, Tx for 6 years in the children's dept. For each of the 6 years I was at that crappy store I had to open the entire dept (boys, girls, infants and toddlers) by myself from 6 am to 10 am. I literally saw mothers dragging their kids into the store still wearing their pj's. And when they got to the racks of clothes instead of just moving the clothes aside, they would take them off the racks and then drop them on the floor. Plus during this time, I was also responsible for price checks, complaints, and merchandise pickups. We also had quite a number of family's from a certain foreign country that would every year try to scam the store by buying everything they could grab during the Black Friday sales, then they would return when the sale was over and want their money back. But they would want the money back from the current price and not when it was on sale. Like they would get a shirt on BF for $2.99. But when they come back on Monday to get their refund, they would want the money for the item at the current $9.99 price.
I'm glad I've never had to work on Black Friday, mainly because my place of work is closed both Thanksgiving and the day after, but I did end up at Best Buy one Black Friday just to do some Christmas shopping; OMG the checkout line was ridiculous!
I love watching black friday videos 😅
Me and some friends use to make pretty good money on black Fridays. Back when they just let everyone crowd the doors then open them to release the flood lol.
The last one I remember was Sears (ya I'm old lol) they where giving out tickets to get washer/dryer for like $200 under the normal price. I'm a big dude almost 7 foot and 300lbs so when they opened the door I just body blocked it so my 2 smaller friends could get in and get a huge head start to get us each a ticket. Ended up selling them for $100 each lol
And people wonder why I hate Black Friday.. Cyber Monday here I come!!
4:30 Public bathrooms should be designed so they can be cleaned with one person in a hazmat suit and a pressure washer
Not exactly for Black Friday but when I worked graveyard shift, the day of and day after holidays and what not weren’t that bad when going to the grocery store at 6am. Your able to get the first dibs of discounted stuff. Definitely took advantage of being off at 6am and not being far from home with a 24hr store on the way
Retail is hell, never will work in that ever.
Gold star for the bakery guy!!!!
Children, if your manager dismisses your concerns about security. Write it up, send it to corporate and get the F*CK out of that job. It doesn't matter if it's janitorial, retail, technical, medical or anything else. IF YOUR UPPER MANAGEMENT IS NOT WILLING TO ALLOW YOU TO BE SAFE - LEAVE! No job is worth your life, no matter how much your boss cries, whines and tries to guilt-trip you.
I can't understand why people act like such A-holes over Black Friday, after spending the day before, SUPPOSEDLY being thankful for what they already have.
I shopped on Black Friday, at the insistence of my sister ONCE!! Never will do it again.
Not a horror story but I was wearing a FitBit and had walked over 15 miles in the store
On black friday at this one job I had I literally just walked out and found a job in a warehouse
I only worked at grocery stores on Black Friday it was mildly busy mainly people grabbing prepared food to go. I was lucky enough not to work in a busy shopping center.
Black Friday 'deals' are especially awful this year.
I never shop on Black Friday because of stories like this.....
That furniture store one my god now image TVs instead of that people buying the largest TVs and come to target with the smallest car possible and refuse to either lower the seat or call for another car and then come back to complain or return it
It's not my story but I worked at Walmart between 2008-2010 at that time I believe a majority of the Walmarts would actually shut their doors for a few hours before Black Friday shopping would commence and in that short time. I worked there there's an associate in New York that was trampled to death upon opening the doors it was so bad that I believe the EMTs even had a hard time getting to him and working because nobody would stop trampling this poor man it was the very next year that Walmart kept their doors open letting people trickle in and if they had to go to the bathroom giving them for all intents and purposes a hall pass to where they would get their spot right back and it wouldn't be cutting
I never do black friday...well the chaos part. only time close was me and my siblings sharing a car back to our respected homes on thanksgiving. we decided to check target (only if we found a parking spot which we did) not to buy...just see the crazyness. it was shocking. never seen a line that big before. basically was a line to get on the line to get on the checkout lines.
i do check out black friday at stores I can walk to but not madness types. though since it began this past friday. did take advantage. got a nice new $250 jacket for $80 at macys
I used to work for staples and seen it all lol
I highly doubt the credit card got charged several times for that lady. The card processer probably authorized it several times and charged it twice. If the card is authorized, the charge will show as pending until the funds are removed from the account by the recieving party. Probably brought in a print out, not an actual statement
This was at least 15 years ago. There was a line outside of an electronics store waiting to purchase the lastest hottest gaming system. There were a limited number of said systems. For this story let's say there were 10 systems. So a store employee walked down the line to inform customer number 11 of this, so they probably wouldn't be getting one. The customer's solution was to pull out a gun and shoot two of the people waiting in line ahead of him.
I will never understand how some people can be so bad at taking a shit
starBUCKS lol
Oh heck number!
Black Freedee.
I had a friend whose ankle was broken by a customer because she was in the way
Why not simply shop online? It's usually the same deals because of the pandemic.
Ah, good to get this info before this year's consumer rush. Just reconfirmed to me that I will go NO WHERE NEAR A STORE on Black Friday.
Smart move. I make it a policy to not enter ANY store from Black Friday to Cyber Monday. Too many people, too much noise, mayhem levels through the freaking roof. Nope.
@@superevilscientistgamer5939, oh, I wont go to the stores which were open on black friday after it's over.
First sroy: Well, the line between insanity and genius is a very thin one.
Also 3:50 Uno Reverse Card
Oh where to begin...
Watched two grown adult men in a knock-down drag-out fistfight over the last holiday Barbie.
Had a nice manager get almost crushed to death by the surge when she unlocked the doors.
Got knocked to the floor/ nearly trampled by the surge when they sent me out the stockroom door with a cart full of Game Boys.
Got yelled at by a customer (the night after Black Friday) because we should 'Only stock when the store is closed' Yeah lady, once a year won't cut it.
Countless people wanting the sale items 2-3 days later. Yeah pal, those were gone in five minutes.
"Starbuccckss"
I work at Walmart. Oml there was a fight and a very angry lady at the deli (my area)
@ 5:30 If you work doing food prep, you don't clean up faces......
Working retail has made me realize that most of the general public is so fucking stupid.
Luckily this past Black Friday I didn’t have a single issue with a customer.
But the weekend after was terrible.
"inoffensive holiday music" Sorry but I find Christmas music VERY offensive.
Oh heck, number…..The glory of TTS……..
I never did black Friday. 💯
24:15 guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Today was my last day working at Walmart and I can promise you I've been payed time and a half for holidays.
ahhh black Friday
Easily the stampede and riots.I took one look at that mob ,and harnessed my inner usain bolt tf on outta there.oh,hell,no.y'all do not pay me enough to be trampled.me?work black friday? You best pay me combat pay.
Some folk clearly ain't got no home training
I wish really I could watch one Reddit video without a poop story
9:50
PANIK
Imagine believing any of these stories? Imagine that?
I'm one of those guys that gets mad at the workers. But it seems that it's the only way to get what I want. Oh well. Don't like the field, then leave I always say.