So who's working Christmas Eve (especially retail workers)?

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1664kronenbourg

1664kronenbourg

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Of course shops won't be the only places open on Christmas eve like taxi and buss drivers and the police as well as Amazon drivers (Hey, you lot. I can just see some kid at school painting a pictureof an Amazon van and Amazon delivery driver and telling their teachesr that Father Chirstmas works for Amazon and my presntes come in an Amazon van)
If you're not working, please spare a thought for people who are and if you're driving, please drive carefully and if you're going to the pub, please don't drink and drive or get a designated driver or you'll ruin somebody else's christmas as well as your own and give any taxi drivers a tip to make it worth their while.

I'm working from one till six this christmas eve).
as I'm finishing at six I won't be there at closing time but no doubt there'll be people who decide to turn up 5-10 minutes to closing time for 'just a few small items' or 'I won't be long (Yet standin in the middle of aisles updating or checking facebook facebook and have a basketful) and will no doubt just leave THEIR shopping in the middle of the aisle and expect the staff to put it back for them and walk out.
Thats before somebody turns up just as the doors're locked and the shutters're coming down. They'll be begging to be let in with the usual exscuses of
It's not ten o'clock tey and I only want a few small items
Go on, it's christmas
where's your christmas spirit
You've just ruined christmas for my kids (and putting it Facebook and posing with my family for ther newspapers and saying how you ruined Christmas for us with feigned sad face expressions)
I'm writing to head office
(as far as I concerned, we'll open the shop but THEY can put all THEIR SHOPPING BACK THEMSELVES and pay us five quid each Over time) for each minute beyond ten o'clock and anybody who wants the place to be open on christmas day can borrow my uniform).
 
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I can't remember for for last time I worked chirstmas eve (think it was two years). I've been rota'd and I'm hoping to obtain a bottle of Chambord but my christmas won't be ruined if i can't get hold of one (I've got some wine and a bottler of Taylor's port (seven quid at the Coey now and the've got rasberry Smirnoff on sale). Depending on the situation I might give them a present of doing an extra hour (as it's christmas)., I've agreed to do extra hours before but was told that they didn't really need me to hang on.

(A bit OT but here's some that hardly ever gets mentioned. Here it comes..
The Sex Pistols had a BAD reputation at the time and they were driving round looking for a venue. In Huddersfield the firemen were on strike and holding a christmas party for their families. The Sex Pistols turned up and played a gig for them, joined in with the fun, and behaved themselves and there was no trouble.
It's on Youtube but I wonder why the said event hardly ever gets mentioned..)
 
No doubt some customers'll buy trolleys full of shopping ((as far as I'm concerned, anything they don't want or don't have enough for, they can put back themselves and not be allowed to leave the shop until they have done) then comeback on boxing day for more with the exscuse of 'I've got people coming round' (yeah, sure you have! That's just an exscuse).
If there are any tasty reductions on offer, please save some for everybody else.
 
1664kronenbourg said:
No doubt some customers'll buy trolleys full of shopping ((as far as I'm concerned, anything they don't want or don't have enough for, they can put back themselves and not be allowed to leave the shop until they have done and I don't care if they've booked a taxi, have to be somewhere or they';re meeting somebody) then comeback on boxing day for more with the exscuse of 'I've got people coming round' (yeah, sure you have! That's just an exscuse).
If there are any tasty reductions on offer, please save some for everybody else.
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If anybody, especially a customer, comes up to me tomorro2w and asks me why the co-op's closed on Christmas day instead of being open, I'm surely tempted to offfer them my unifiorm and tell them if they want the place to be open on christmas day, they can borrow my uniform and work there on christmas day but they won't get paid and there won't be any special transport laid on for them.
 
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cheesefest said:
My ex worked at a supermarket (different company to mine) and we walked past his work to get to his mum’s on Christmas Day.

There was always about 10 people queuing outside right by the A1 sized poster with opening hours. A few recognised my ex and asked when the store would be open. My ex smiled and said Merry Christmas to them and we carried on walking.

One man one year stood outside for three hours on Christmas morning. How pathetic.

If anyone asks why we are closed on CD - I just say it’s the law! Customers instantly shut up. Love killing off a customer’s stupid questions and an argument which I can see happening.

Those who ask if we are open on CD have never worked in retail.
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I'd offer them my uniform and tell them that they can work there themselves but with no pay or transport laid on if they want the place to be open on Christmas day.
 
Wasn't as busy as I thought'd be but by two o'clock I juist anted to go home (I'm not ill, juist didn't really feel like it). Helped a few cusotomers (sometimes you can't) and had to let one down (he wantes some cranberry sauce but there was none on the shelf or in stock), got thanked for my help BUT I NEVER DID GET A BOTTLE OF CHAMBORD (i definetly saw the box but it never want on sale) but I did get a bottle of TAYLOR's.
 
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