After Christmas!!

September 2008

i think its an utter disgrace retail staff have families as well and work long enough hours in the lead up to xmas. argos and harvey norman are open as well

Happy Chri

We are all supposed to be broke?
Government rubbing their hands here for a new tax.

Peter its not that they have surplus stock. The st. Stephan’s day sales are part of their yearly sales strategy. The reason they start them earlier is to get a jump on their competitors. They want you to spend your money in their shop before you go anywhere else.

and if people didn’t shop retailers wouldn’t open, why cant people stay at home with their families and enjoy Christmas???

Of us county folk that wrk all year long and i have a couple of days off togeter during xmas and st.stephens day is a day that we head to dub to the sales as a family. U sign up for working these days wen u decide to work in retail. If people didnt spend u wudnt have a job.stop been so begrudging please. Its xmas lay off the compalining for once.

Retail hours are hard going around Christmas but on the other hand how many people now would gladly do those hours instead of collecting the dole every week?

Just because shops are open doesn’t mean we have to shop. Stay home if that’s your preference or go shopping if it tickles your fancy, that’s the beauty of freedom.

It’s a disgrace opening shops on Stephens day,the sales could start tomorrow.What’s wrong with people who get up at 5am to go shopping,get yourself checked out

No we didnt sign up to this. when i started retail 20 years ago there was no stephens day shopping
no sunday trading
only 1 late night no new years day trade no good friday trade .
If the highlight of your family time is trecking accross the country to go shopping you have a fairly sad empty little life.

Argh ! Just let people do what they want! It’s a disgrace all those people on the journal.ie cribbing about other people on St. Stephen’s day…

Roos…..shut yo ass

Well said Simon!

Not sure how many of us choose retail as a career path. I know a boatload of people on the dole who’d refuse to work in retail, so I guess it is a choice of sorts.

I suppose I could go on the dole and write stupid blog posts about how super sad it is to be on the dole, etc, but I work instead. In retail. Basically, for my job I am a professional punching bag for people unhappy with their lot in life who take it out on others, and for those people so pathetic they need to shop all the time to be happy. There are good parts of the job too, nice, sane, smart people, but they are few and far between (because they are nice, sane, smart people, they don’t live in the shopping centre).

Next year, my shop will probably be open Stephens’ Day and I will have exactly 1 day off at Xmas. I used to work in a Nursing Home and a hospital and I get the hours there, it makes sense, people don’t stop needing care because it’s December 25th. But nobody needs that pink sweater OMG HALF PRICE or that DVD player, like, NOW. Society needs to get a grip.

“I suppose I could go on the dole and write stupid blog posts about how super sad it is to be on the dole, etc, but I work instead” It’s not like a lifestyle choice for the majority of us JR. If you are so pissed off with your job why don’t you go on the dole seeing as you have such a rosy view of it!

Laura, chill out! If you read my comment you would have noted that I said I wasn’t complaining about working Xmas day, happy to do it actually….so nothing to ‘get over’ and am enjoying a day off……. And not going shopping :)