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

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MoNkeE said:
I think people need to be fair and realise they’re confusing unskilled work with easy work. Retail may be an industry largely for the unskilled, but that doesn’t mean the work load is necessarily easy.
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Exactly. Dressing a new bay with following the Planogram, changing shelf heights, putting up promo stuff on the ceiling, putting signs outside when it’s 50mph winds. Emptying freezers and chillers as quickly as possible if break down etc.

Think I will burn loads of calories from this. I joke ‘burnt of a mince pie’ this time of year
 
cheesefest said:
Thing is some supermarket workers when applied for their job, applied for jobs in clothes shops, coffee shops, gift shops. One thing and another, they got the job at the supermarket.

If outcome of interviews were different, they wouldn’t be working and furloughed.
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I'm failing to see your point. If the outcome of the lottery was different last night, I'd be a millionaire....

Some of the non-supermarket workers who ended up in those other jobs are likely redundant now as their business never recovered after lockdown whereas I didn't hear of many/any supermarkets doing the same.

Think of not being furloughed as insurance that you had a job after lockdown.... The furloughed were not guaranteed as such... Still think you were hard done by?
 
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MoNkeE said:
I think people need to be fair and realise they’re confusing unskilled work with easy work. Retail may be an industry largely for the unskilled, but that doesn’t mean the work load is necessarily easy.
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Its a bad category or word to say unskilled, the majority of jobs (95%+) are equal in difficulty, some of them you need one or so qualifications, others you need nothing.
 
Vanquish-Storm said:
Spare a thought for those in pharmacy who have to open Christmas and Boxing Day while being severely underfunded.
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My wife works in a pharmacy and the only two days a year they close are Christmas Day and Easter Sunday. The reason they close those days is because it’s a legal requirement. If they could open, they would.

And they’re dreadfully understaffed.
 
Josh said:
Sure we did this topic last year as well, with the same OP, same "put THEIR own shopping back" whinge.
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So we did!

Any retail shopfloor workers working on Christmas eve?

Not me but it'll be interesting to drop in here throughout the day to see any up to date reports and to read about people deciding to turn up five/four minutes to closing time and coming up with 'But it isn't ten o'clock yer' 'I'll only be two minutes (then spend half the time on facebook...
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Feek said:
My wife works in a pharmacy and the only two days a year they close are Christmas Day and Easter Sunday. The reason they close those days is because it’s a legal requirement. If they could open, they would.

And they’re dreadfully understaffed.
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Have they never opened Christmas?

In most towns there had to be a number of pharmacies open and they tend to swap it around.
 
The gift card server went down earlier on. Customers were kicking off. As too many gift cards from 3rd parties were purchased today.

Why do people leave things to the last minute?
 
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