"i don't have a cent this Christmas, usual it seems. so i think i'll learn how to knit." - HW
Christmas is here. Yes, it's December 4th, but we're on Christmas hours at work, so if you want to shop until 11pm, here's your chance! (please... do NOT come in...). Although I understand making the hours later like, a week or two before Christmas, we started December 1st this year. While it is fine for the sales staff on the floor (they can clean all night and still get out at 11:30), us on cash have the task of counting our tills and doing all of the paper work (which is a nightmare) in 30 minutes. It's hard to do that on a normal night, not even during a Christmas rush. I spoke with a coworker last night, and she said that she didn't get home until after 12am, at which point she had to write 2 essays for Monday (because she works all day today as well). It just never lets up.
The managers did not put up a sign up sheet for the holidays this year, like they usually do. We're supposed to be available either Christmas eve or New Years eve to work, but this year they want all of us to be able to work either (or both) days. While I don't mind working New Years eve (I don't plan on going out, because we usually don't), but Christmas eve is a) insane b) insane and c) the only day I can see Chris. Boxing day is 100% cool for me (I've never had to work Boxing day), New Years day is 100% cool for me, too. But watch: I will be scheduled for Christmas eve just because I need it off. And no one will take my shift. Because they all are sane.
Rant over.
I have 3 paragraphs left in my final essay, and if I keep procrastinating it won't ever finish. So. Two more cartoons to express my feelings for the day.
Stress
Generic Winter Holiday Tree
Christmas is here. Yes, it's December 4th, but we're on Christmas hours at work, so if you want to shop until 11pm, here's your chance! (please... do NOT come in...). Although I understand making the hours later like, a week or two before Christmas, we started December 1st this year. While it is fine for the sales staff on the floor (they can clean all night and still get out at 11:30), us on cash have the task of counting our tills and doing all of the paper work (which is a nightmare) in 30 minutes. It's hard to do that on a normal night, not even during a Christmas rush. I spoke with a coworker last night, and she said that she didn't get home until after 12am, at which point she had to write 2 essays for Monday (because she works all day today as well). It just never lets up.
The managers did not put up a sign up sheet for the holidays this year, like they usually do. We're supposed to be available either Christmas eve or New Years eve to work, but this year they want all of us to be able to work either (or both) days. While I don't mind working New Years eve (I don't plan on going out, because we usually don't), but Christmas eve is a) insane b) insane and c) the only day I can see Chris. Boxing day is 100% cool for me (I've never had to work Boxing day), New Years day is 100% cool for me, too. But watch: I will be scheduled for Christmas eve just because I need it off. And no one will take my shift. Because they all are sane.
Rant over.
I have 3 paragraphs left in my final essay, and if I keep procrastinating it won't ever finish. So. Two more cartoons to express my feelings for the day.
5 Comments:
Haha...I love the holiday tree. It reminds me of how you can't say "Christmas holidays" anymore. Stupid politically-correct people who have nothing better to do with their time...
Yeah, it's sad. A friend of mine made a follow-up cartoon that said: "A Kwanza Tree" with the rest of the page blank... hehe.
By the way, our CHRISTMAS TREE looks gorgeous. It'll be hard to keep Emma from running under it, though.
I do appreciate your point, Gillian. I'm torn between the two sides, more because of my personal family traditions than a choice between religions (my family isn't religious at all, so it's hard for me to see things from another point of view). But I think that the whole renaming of the Christmas tree is silly because everyone knows (or do we really know? I don't know why it's tied with Christian traditions) it's a Christmas tree.
I would go on but I, too, have an essay to finish for today (4 1/2 hours). Good luck with yours!
the stress comic is great!
I'm really glad that you liked that comic, Matt. I'm a great fan of your comics, as well. I feel so honoured! Hehe.
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