Inspired by some chatter in the status box. If you work retail, or are close to someone who does: share your horror stories so maybe we can seek some mutual therepy and keep our heads for this season. Since after all, y'know: emotional labor is valid labor and is just as soul sucking.

my mum has been moving christmas stock onto the shop floor since september. we also went into a bodyshop store on november 1st and it was all christmas'd up and playing christmas music on repeat.

retail workers should be the new joker

I work at Home Depot and we've had Christmas stuff on sale since before Halloween. We were actually getting it all in after I returned from a two-month hiatus to work in up-state New York for the Boy Scouts; fun time, would slave 16 hour days again. We're just waiting with baited breath and horror for when we know the Christmas music will begin again, and the protests from the night crew to shut it down after closing (the store never shuts off its day-time shopping music and ad play-list even at night, it's a 24/7 experience).

The managers are as angry about the season as the rest of us. They hate it. I've heard them protest angrily to one another and how Christmas as a tradition is dead to them now. They would rather just ignore the whole holiday.

No love loss for thanksgiving now a'days.

(the store never shuts off its day-time shopping music and ad play-list even at night, it's a 24/7 experience).

what the fuck

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what the fuck

Tell me about it.

But most of us put in ear buds or headphones, or turn up our blue tooth speakers until the "HELLO HOME DEPOT SHOPPERS" ads are drowned up in our vicinity.