Once more unto the breach, dear friends

[thepolemicist]

Working retail is like joining the Masons; having to work during the "Holidays" is your brutal yet mostly-legal initiation. After your first Christmas in retail you decide whether this is the club for you or not. If you stay, you and every other retail peon can commiserate together ad nauseam as for one month of every year you become orphaned of

Comments

[yellowtangfish]

ah, sonny! i remember working my first retail christmas. i worked christmas eve and then again on boxing day. and i had to walk uphill both ways....just kidding on the hill thing.
hang in there.

[quikchange]

Ah, but did you have 38 brothers & sisters on your back while walking uphill both way?

[thepolemicist]

Um... like some kind of inbred marsupial?

[themudgirl]

I too am 'enjoying' my time in retail. Although it doesn't matter how many people I serve or how much crap I sell, I still make almost minimum wage. Yay Canadian Tire!

Everyone should come visit me at Canadian Tire this week because I'm there basically every day. :p Yippee.