The Christmas Insanity has begun!

[megah0]

i work in a jewellers, you would not believe how crazy some people go, we had a bloke spend £1600 on a platinum and ruby ring, whilst he was paying (in cash) his wife decided she wanted a new watch to the tune of £295.

crazy

[TiG]

See and now I know why i don't work in the service industry, because I wouldn't need security to come and remove the guy from the building i've had done it myself

fingers crossed for you Deck for an easier week this week coming

TiG

[Bindibadgi]

Originally posted by Deckard
I can't wait until Xmas Eve... we close at 7pm and you can bet your mortgage that we'll still be telling people to naff off home outta the checkouts at 7.30pm...

Yup, i had that working Xmas eve when i was 16 in the biggest Tescos' in the UK in Cardiff. Xmas eve and there was ques down to the back of the store. Crazy. People dont half get ratty too Its the feckin festive season and all people do is moan and bitch! Yeeesh.

[Swafe]

my jobs the opposite of anything else

where as you work more, i work less

i finished on friday, and havnt got another shift for a month and a half

[SilentDeath]

Originally posted by Deckard
I can't wait until Xmas Eve... we close at 7pm and you can bet your mortgage that we'll still be telling people to naff off home outta the checkouts at 7.30pm...

Last year there was a punch up at the door when a customer rolled up at 7.45pm, we had closed 45 minutes ago and he wanted to 'just quickly get a few things'. He was told we were closed and he went off on a huge strop, got all lippy and demanded to be let in... he even said we we're a public service and had a duty to let him in and shop.

The duty manager told him we we're open 363 days each year and he chose now to do some shopping? Tough luck, we' were closed. At this point the guy, having absolutely lost it, picked up a trolley and threw it at the guy, smashing him into the doors . The security guard, decked out with seasonal holly and mistletoe cheerfully clubbed him to the ground with his torch...

few weeks ago we had that in the rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbishty shop i work, there were still 10 customers still fking aroung 30mins after we shut + time to cash up etc.. it was hour and a half before i got home
and that wasnt even christmas! today it wasnt as bad though (being sunday instead of saturday) but it will be in the week, WHY did i ask to work extra hours

[3Dfx]

I gotta work Xmas Eve Morning... boo hoo...

but... well .... we all just listen to music and (enter rude word here) ....

If the other staff dont do work, the computer system cant break... so we cant do work.. WOOO

[lynni]

Im working the night before xmas eve, but it runs into xmas eve..... cos lynni's gotta keep her eyes open for nearly 12 hours!! and then my Pa is comeing to pick me up once my shift is finished and take me home with all my pressies and suitcase so i can sleep.... im the last one out of the flat as well, my other flat mates go home the 22nd and the 23rd :-(

[TeePee]

Poor babies, having to work part of xmas eve...

You'll be stuffing yourselves with Turkey on Christmas day, and I'll have to make do with scoffing some Turkey sandwiches working my usual 12 hour day...

Still, double bubble really is the true meaning of Christmas...

[Punky]

i'm workin till 8 or 9 christmas eve, but i plan to be hammered by at least 7. that way, it makes it a much more festive event for customers i'm putting a donations box on the counter so people can giv us (me) money so i can go out drinkin after work! should be fun. peace
p.s. santa is real! i know he is, i saw him climbing into next doors window!

[BoB_DoG]

Ive just been asked to work back at my old job over chrimbo, behind the bar in a restaurant... i really need the money, as Ive overspent in this Uni term, but its such hassle, especially at this time of the year... I had some idiot try and book a table for christmas day in the restaurant, and he couldnt understand why we werent open... some people

[Zak33]

JUST FOR THE RECORD I HAVEN'T SEEN A PUNTER FOR OVER A WEEK....

They are all in bloomin' food shops.

People used to BUY CARS at Christmas.....now they just steal borchures, say its for "next year" and then go and get angry in a Supermarket, with their "fellow man"

The New and Used car market, can be described thus:

You know those Cowboy films, right?

Well....you know the Tumbleweed, right?

Well that's it......

all day......

and there's that distant wind whistling throug hthe shutters too

Commission.....who's have it?

Not ME this month, I CAN TELL YOU

[G4Z]

really couldnt be arsed working in a shop at xmas, was bad enough working in a pub. I am now working in the NHS as an IT blokey and its (rude word) great

half day xmas eve, no customers at all.... our manager is off sick till the 19th january (how you can predict that you will be sick until that exact day is beyond me) so basicaly we are arriving in skive city, holy cow its 10 past 4 now! better get myself home!!!!!!!!

[TeePee]

That santa thing is a myth.

I mean, the idea that santa is a myth is a myth. He's real..

Back in the fifteenth century he was the man. The whole thing is true, red suit, reindeer, sleigh, climbing down chimneys, the works.

Of course, he didn't so much leave presents as eat children, but they say it's the thought that counts.

[Nick]

I thought that Santa was traditionally dressed in green? It was Coca Cola who dressed him in red to match their corporate colours... or so I thought...

[Tumble]

and you'd be right too, Mr Deckard...

[TeePee]

Yup, I seam to remember that's actually true...