That was true my first handful of years doing retail, but the last few years I got to skip black Friday because my manager forgot 3 years in a row to blackout black Friday and I got PTO in 6-8 months ahead of time. Pissed him off every year when he’d start making the schedule/telling me about how the day was gonna go, only to find out I had it off and already had plans (scheduled months ago) so I wasn’t going to be there, scheduled or not.
That was true my first handful of years doing retail, but the last few years I got to skip black Friday because my manager forgot 3 years in a row to blackout black Friday and I got PTO in 6-8 months ahead of time. Pissed him off every year when he’d start making the schedule/telling me about how the day was gonna go, only to find out I had it off and already had plans (scheduled months ago) so I wasn’t going to be there, scheduled or not.