# Anyone else hate the idea of black friday?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 18, 2015, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hate-the-idea-of-black-friday/737895 "2015-11-18T16:21:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hate-the-idea-of-black-friday/737895/46 "2015-11-19T00:09:13Z")

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About 6 years ago I worked as a cashier at KMart through the whole holiday season, since I started in October.

I worked at the register on Black Friday for 9 hours without a single break. The registers kept crashing, then they had to be rebooted, and the whole purchase rung up again. It was enough to make me realize, that I will not ever work a retail job again in my life.

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