11 Struggles Of Working In Retail During The Holidays, As Told By Christina Yang
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11 Struggles Of Working In Retail During The Holidays, As Told By Christina Yang

Her lack of emotions perfectly explain our overload of them.

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11 Struggles Of Working In Retail During The Holidays, As Told By Christina Yang

It's the most dreaded time of the year. Long hours of smiling and agreeing and lying to people's faces just so they'll buy more things that you'll probably see again when their sister/ daughter/friends returns it after the holidays are over. Customers are either WAY too nice and share more personal information than you know about your best friend or ignore you completely and make you say "wtf." But you can't say it because the customer is always right (which by the way is the DUMBEST guideline out there). The store is a mess 30 seconds after you clean it and you basically want to pull your hair out. Who better to express retail worker's feelings than the warm and fuzzy Christina Yang??

1. When your manager walks in and you have to plaster a smile on for all the last minute holiday shoppers.


2. When you greet a guest and they straight up ignore you.


3. And then proceed to follow you and mess up racks that you JUST straightened.


4. When your manager says she brought a treat for the team.


5. When you have about a minute left on break.


6. Your level of anger when there's a pile of clothes on the floor of the fitting room.


7. When customers drop their money on the counter instead of your outstretched hand.


8. "This doesn't have a price tag, must be free!"


10. When the guest actually buys everything you helped them find.


11. When you finally get to lock the doors at night.

Thank you for your honesty, Christina.

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