DeKALB | The term “Black Friday” is either uttered as a curse or a blessing, depending on what side of the store register you are on.

Cindy Iori, store manager for Kohl’s, 2306 Sycamore Road, DeKalb, is prepared for this day. “We will be opening at 5 a.m.,” she said. “And we will be fully staffed.”

Others such as Melissa Sengenberger, a sophomore psychology major, are a little bit nervous.

On Friday, Sengenberger will take on her first Black Friday in retail at Bath & Body Works in Rockford.

“I was hired last week,” she said. “I was hired for seasonal, but I wouldn’t mind staying if they asked me to.”

Sengenberger also said her store will be expecting even more customers than usual.

“This is our first year having a commercial,” she said. “[Managers] said 75 percent [of customers expected on Friday] are people who haven’t been there yet this year.”

Jessica Bell, a junior business management and translation major, is expecting insanity at the Best Buy she works at in Rockford.

“The PS3 and Nintendo Wii are coming out, so I assume it’s going to be crazy,” Bell said. “Last year I worked from five in the morning to 4:30 in the afternoon, [but] if I had a preference, I’d open.”

Black Friday has its pros and cons for Bell.

“What I like most is the rush of having a lot of customers and a lot of people,” she said. “What I like least [about last year] is that a lot of customers kept coming up to tell me the prices were wrong. It was the same five people. There were so many people it wasn’t very fair.”