To work, or not to work?
For five straight years you could find me one place the day after Thanksgiving: Target, at 5 a.m.
No, I wasn’t Black Friday shopping. Instead I was handing out hot coco to the real shoppers. That was my duty as a Target cashier. It was also the thing I couldn’t wait to escape after I quit.
Little did I know my Black Friday mornings at Target were not over just because my days as a cashier were. My first Black Friday away from Target I still found myself at the front of the line at 5 a.m. — this time I was interviewing shoppers for The Oklahoman’s annual Black Friday story. My old manager laughed when he saw me — I guess he remembered me telling him the year before: “Next year I’ll be a reporter and I won’t have to be out here so darn early.”
I was wrong. I still have to work the day after Thanksgiving. A lot of us do. And even more of us will this year thanks to New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine.
Corzine, who
New Jersey state employees are now calling the “Thanksgiving Grinch,” is making state employees work Friday, after 30 years of having the day off with pay. The governor’s office has received 5,500 phone calls unhappy with the decision.
But Gov. Grinch is not budging — showing that he may indeed have a heart two sizes too small.
What about you? Do you have to work the day after Thanksgiving, or will the only work you’ll be doing consist of carrying your newly purchased gifts to your car?
Ja’Rena Lunsford
Business Writer
jlunsford@oklahoman.com
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