moontheloon
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Joined: 30/9/2005
From: Birmingham
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Because I work in retail and it is Christmas.
A customer is almost certainly going to complain about me tomorrow for asking him very politely not to be rude after he made a wise assed remark about how the company I work for is having financial trouble at the moment. Whilst I know I shouldn't have said it, I also find it very distasteful to make light of the fact that someone could be made redundant, indeed to pretty much rub it in the face of that person with glee and sarcasm.
I am pissed off not so much because he was rude to me, because I get that every day, but more that I responded, because I usually save my responses for my own mutterings on the way home or in the staff room. I guess with the constant media reports that we're fucked and the stuff going on internally that makes me think that the bosses are panicked I was more touchy than usual.
I've had enough of Christmas though. People this time of the year seem to get a little crazy and seem to think that they have the right to treat the staff like twats, to treat the shops like they have every right to be there, even when they're closing, to complain about every little thing. Yes we've sold out, but we did have 300 last week. It's hardly my fault you didn't think to come in last week. Yes we close at 7, yes other shops are open until 9, that does not give you the right to get pissy with some of our staff and rant about how outrageous it is for us to close 'early', because we're staying open longer than usual, and we have to pay staff to work the extra hour or two at the end of the night, not forgetting that these staff also have lives of their own and don't especially want to be in until 9 so they won't get home until gone 10.
Quite frankly I am pissed off at Christmas, because I swore that this year would be different, that despite working in retail , and despite that fact ruining every Christmas since I was 16 with the stress and the abuse we receive in our jobs. Despite this I swore that I would enjoy this year, I would try and be more festive. I wrote Christmas cards for everyone I work with, I did my Christmas shopping relatively early and I've tried my hardest to maintain a happy demeanour. But fuck me if it isn't the same as every other year, with rude customers, more stress and no breaks (I have two days off before the end of the year, none of them before Christmas).
So I am a little pissed off tonight, and I have another 6 days to go. I must remember to bite my tongue though.
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