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10 Things Every Retail Worker Hates About The Holidays

I need a vacation.

Dulce Romero
Dec 26, 2017
Kennesaw State University
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10 Things Every Retail Worker Hates About The Holidays
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I’ve worked in retail for almost two years now and it seems like every holiday season is worst than the last. I have always been a person that thoroughly enjoys the holiday season, that was until I started working in retail and was introduced to the dark side of the holidays. With the holidays very slowly coming to a close, here are 10 things Retail workers hate about working the holidays and hopefully this can give some insight on what it's really like to work during this time of year and maybe change your perspective on things when you go shopping for the holiday season.

1. Customers Asking For A Price Check

Okay, I might get some hate for this one but honestly, I don’t know the price of everything and it can get super annoying when every single customer is asking for a price check. There are price scanners around the store and sometimes I am clearly too busy to drop everything to check a price but, happy holidays!!

2. Rude Customers

For some reason people seem to get extremely rude during the holidays especially when they go shopping. Customers sometimes don’t really care for my problems however since the way they see it, “I chose to work here” but that doesn’t give you the right to be an asshole because I can’t find what you’re looking for.

3. Crowds, Crowds, Crowds

WHY DOES EVERYONE HAVE TO SHOP AT THE SAME TIME IN THE SAME AREA OF THE STORE LEAVING NO ROOM TO BREATHE!???

4. Cleaning Up After Customers

I just love it when a customer has watched me finish organizing items on a shelf and then they go and mess it all up. 😊

5. Parking

The store I work at is pretty big and we are always extremely busy on the weekends and during the holiday season, I have to leave earlier than usual to get a good parking spot unless I wanna walk 30 minutes from my car to the entrance. And some people are HORRIBLE at parking.

6. When an Item sells out

Look, if we are out of an item, we’re out. I can’t make it magically appear and how come it is always my fault when we run out of something?

7. No break, just work

MY FEET ARE KILLING ME!!!

8. Overtime

Overtime is good because you get some extra cash but sometimes, I just wanna go home.

9. Missing out on Holiday Parties

To sum it up, I had to leave my Thanksgiving Dinner early to go to work.

10. When Management makes you wear a ridiculous outfit to promote the Holidays

“Smile, this is going on our Facebook Page!”

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