Soooo….stores are opening earlier on Thanksgiving giving you the chance to stand in line in freezing weather for that much longer so that you can get the overpriced item that was marked up by the retailer specifically for you.

After that is over what is there to look forward to?  Certainly not

maybe a little of this….

Maybe a lot of this…

And then it is back to work on Monday.

Ahhhhh yes…..Monday.  In 2005 a new marketing term was coined.  That would be Cyber Monday.  Cyber Monday was coined based on 2004 data showing that online shopping the Monday after Thanksgiving to one of the biggest shopping days of the year.

The 12th biggest to be exact.

In 2012 $1.5 billion dollars were spent with online shopping sites on the Monday after Thanksgiving.  $1.5 billion.  has to make you wonder what work exactly was being accomplished that day by those of you sitting at your desk computers.

Which is what your employers were thinking also.

As of November 2011, 22% of employers had fired an employee for using the Internet for non-work related activity; 7% of human resource managers surveyed had fired an employee for holiday shopping; and 54% of employers were blocking employees from accessing certain websites.  That is a bunch of folks being fired just so that they can cash in on an online bargain.  Cyber Monday deals run to clothing and shoes.  An tech items that you want to purchase are best purchased on Blackfriday, historically.

As long as you don’t mind running the chance of getting fired, that is…