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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Masimatutu@mander.xyz to c/memes@lemmy.ml
 

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three rows with a barbecue on the left and William Wallace in Braveheart on the right.

In the first row, captioned Wednesday, the barbecue is labelled "$899.99" and Wallace says "hold".

The second row, captioned Thursday, depicts the same.

In the third row, captioned Black Friday, the there is a label with ~~$1099.99~~ struck through with "$899.99" written underneath, and Wallace charges.

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[–] ensignrick@startrek.website 112 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

As a past retail worker. Black Friday was miserable. I worked at Bestbuy. I saw a lot of people breakdown and quit thay day due to the stress. Don't encourage it. If you do go out. Be respectful and remember it's just things that don't really matter. I have never gone out and don't support it especially the trickling of businesses forcing employees to work on Thanksgiving.

[–] elementalguy2@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Work at Best buy currently in inventory, last year all week of black Friday we have over 300 online orders at once until we were getting closer to the end of the night. This week so far the most I've seen is 50. We're staffed the same, less so in fact with all the call-outs, but still we have a full team in tomorrow from 1am until midnight.

[–] ensignrick@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

1am geezus back when I worked at Bestbuy. 2008ish I came in at 3:30am to sell shitty netbooks to customers waiting in the lines outside.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

In 1998 I used to have to be in at 6AM.This thread is like a nice little timeline of the enshittification of America.

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