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

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Vanquish-Storm said:
Yeah, one person signing off all those life saving drugs on top of doing services and queries and patients pointed to them under pharmacy first that’s not funded at all.

I have personally never had to queue 30mins though everything is digital and can even get a text when your prescription is ready to collect.

Funny how some people can happily wait 15mins + in a McDonalds and not complain though.
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Twice this month I've had to wait in a queue for ~30 minutes at my pharmacy, which seemed to have perhaps four members of staff - though, as you say, maybe only one of them could sign the prescriptions off.
 
not on at all this year. I do work one in 4 tho so will be working christmas 2025. Pulled a blinder and offered to work christmas when everything was locked down before anyone else thought of doing it. Worked out great!
 
Other half is working tonight, picking her up at 7am, and just finished getting stuff ready for the kids. Solo cooking dinner for 11 tomorrow, and then same again tomorrow night :cry:

Going to be absolutely knackered, but managed to book my first 2 days off in 18 months in January :)
 
tom_e said:
The gamble that you're Ieaving it until last thing Christmas eve and they might have none to sell you
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Did you just put a capital I in place of a lower case l? And thought you could just get away with it? Not on my watch, kidda.
 
tom_e said:
The gamble that you're Ieaving it until last thing Christmas eve and they might have none to sell you
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Most years, always sell out of turkeys. Last year, we had loads left as people had low key Christmases due to Covid. The management froze them and gave some to shelters. Rest we had free. Got a luxury own label Norfolk Bronze crown which had on Easter Sunday. Would have been £31!
 
A younger mags used to work for M&S when they had the head office on Baker Street and he worked in the Poultry Business Unit. There's a surprising amount of planning, forecasting, storing, transporting, and branch transferring going on in that 3 week period before the 25th and then a pretty rapid slash and burn post-Christmas to limit reductions and losses. Quite exciting in a completely-self-made-drama-to-make-the-dept-look-important kind of way but it's chicken so no one thought that for a second.

Thank you for reading my story, namaste.
 
Vanquish-Storm said:
Ah the dreaded December and no staff. With only 4 there would only be one pharmacist.
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Boots near my work have been closed on Sundays since March as difficult to get a pharmacist in when the usual ones are on holiday. As people visit Boots for medication over everything else, they close.
 
[FnG]magnolia said:
A younger mags used to work for M&S when they had the head office on Baker Street and he worked in the Poultry Business Unit. There's a surprising amount of planning, forecasting, storing, transporting, and branch transferring going on in that 3 week period before the 25th and then a pretty rapid slash and burn post-Christmas to limit reductions and losses. Quite exciting in a completely-self-made-drama-to-make-the-dept-look-important kind of way but it's chicken so no one thought that for a second.

Thank you for reading my story, namaste.
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My Mum worked there around 30-35 years ago. Diff department though. :)
 
SideWinder said:
My Mum worked there around 30-35 years ago. Diff department though. :)
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Mags is SideWinders dad?!

I had a pal that worked at M&S. He used to collect customer receipts when they paid cash, and at the end of the day refund them all to his own pocket. He didn't quite understand that he was committing fraud until he got locked up.

I had another friend that worked there that was told to wear smart shoes. He refused to buy some so used to 'borrow' some from the store and return them to the stock room at the end of each shift.
 
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[FnG]magnolia said:
A younger mags used to work for M&S when they had the head office on Baker Street and he worked in the Poultry Business Unit. There's a surprising amount of planning, forecasting, storing, transporting, and branch transferring going on in that 3 week period before the 25th and then a pretty rapid slash and burn post-Christmas to limit reductions and losses. Quite exciting in a completely-self-made-drama-to-make-the-dept-look-important kind of way but it's chicken so no one thought that for a second.

Thank you for reading my story, namaste.
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Part of my job is working as part of the forecasting team in a supermarket, our run up to Christmas is absolutely mental and proper full on "you cannot get this wrong" the crystal balls are fully polished trying to work out what our average customer is going to be up to.
 
chaparral said:
Christmas eve is a normal working day, But it does land on a Saturday this year
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Working upto midnight on Xmas eve and not getting a dime towards any extra pay is a sucky thing. Commiserations anyone stuck in that scenario. Other over time rates can be cool, depends on the business with retail you are of course rushed off the feet busy
 
tom_e said:
Part of my job is working as part of the forecasting team in a supermarket, our run up to Christmas is absolutely mental and proper full on "you cannot get this wrong" the crystal balls are fully polished trying to work out what our average customer is going to be up to.
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Just ask @1664kronenbourg / @cheesefest (one and the same), they know everything there is to know when it comes to retail!
 
robfosters said:
Still a lot for a lump of bland tasting meat.
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You aren’t preparing it properly. Worst thing is to stuff turkey with stuffing which dries out the meat.

Put turkey in a turkey roasting bag.

Once cooked leave it to rest. This is what people don’t do. They take it out of the oven then carve straight away. Needs to rest for 20-40 mins before carving.
 
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