Stupid things customers ask on Xmas Eve Eve

It obviously is. I wouldn’t want to have to do it because I had no other options though. I’m glad some people do.

Alex, a colleague who teaches business studies was trying to motivate his (notoriously lazy) class and told them that if they didn't buck their ideas up the only job they would be able to get would be wiping arses in the Old Folks' Home. One of our colleagues' husband had had a stroke which left him bed-bound and she depended on him having carers so she could continue to work. She was totally outraged to discover what Alex had said and told the kids that arse-wiping was a valuable contribution to society.

In our local sainsbury's they're in a huge stand alone box near where they often put things like sweets on offer (tubs like Haribos and Quality Street), at the beginning of the food part of the store but right at the back near a fridge of pizzas, after the veg and first line on fridges, that iirc contain beef products.
They're absolutely nowhere near the baking section. I usually get eggs elsewhere and after the store assistand kindly took me to them recently we both commented that their positioning made absolutely no sense.

This is another one where I don't get the problem with asking as long as they accepted the answer politely and immediately. If it had already been in the fridges at the back and they could have collected it the day before when they happened to be in the shop anyway, what a win!

‘Hi, I’m a bit early. Could I pick up my Christmas food order?’

’When was your slot?’

’Two o’clock. Tomorrow…’

’Well that tricky, as it won’t be delivered until midnight tonight…’

We all appreciated the supermarket staff during Covid.

Absolutely. I'm sure this tale is apocryphal anyway, but I think the "I'm doing a law degree actually" type answer is inappropriate. Better to say something like, "Every person is worthy of respect and every job is important. If you think mine is not, the self-service tills are that way--->."

In the 70's I worked in an independent chemist's shop. The amount of indigestion remedies we sold on Boxing Day was phenomenal!

But Even if they have no qualifications at all - it doesn’t make them a lesser person than someone with a degree or whatever qualification.

Tkmax has their staff dress up a few years ago before the schools had even broken up and one poor mum was rushing straight off to work as an elf. Us being amazing friends ribbed her for days as such a happy elf 😂😅

she left tkmax a couple of months later for a job she liked more.

@SpiritVaults There is an oft repeated anecdote about a father (and sometimes mother, depending on who is repeating the story) who is in the supermarket with his daughter in line at the checkout and he tells the daughter/kid that if she doesn't study hard at school that she will end up working as a checkout operator like the person serving them, only for the person serving them to say they are doing a Law degree and use this as a part time job to pay their way through college/university. Most young people on the tills at your supermarket are college/uni students.

My local Tesco had a staff member walking around dressed as an elf today with a lollipop-type sign with 'I'm Here to Help' written on it. She didn't look too happy about it tbh, probably some manager's brainwave.

My mum and dad used to have a corner shop way back, the amount of times my dad opened Xmas morning for batteries and cigarette sales phenomenal!!

@LunaTheCat
How silly - they are more likely now to go home with some virus they’ve picked up in the waiting room!

I know someone who works in an electronic store. It’s full of men iust now trying to get phone contracts and failing the financial checks.

How did she manage to get them is past your receptionist they are normally like Rottweilers.

I am a gp and appointments are an absolute premium Christmas week.. one woman brought 2 healthy kids in “ I want to make sure they don’t get sick over Christmas … I told them unfortunately I had left my crystal ball at home.. I also made feelings clear about a wasted appointment during an extremely time.

I think Tesco staff are trained to do this, at least it's been my experience. Even when I've said that I just need to know which aisle to go to they come along with me.

Which supermarket is it that 1) requires staff to walk a customer to where the recant item is/should be, and 2) then requires the staff member to ask if they need help finding anything else. I want to shop there!!

PS Is it Waitrose?

Buck's fizz? Oh dear - a waste of good champagne and good orange juice.

Eggs are always in the fridge at our supermarket.

With regard to the Cadbury Creme eggs and mini eggs, they are deliberately not marketed as Easter eggs so they can be sold all-year round. People just think they're Easter eggs though because that's when some people mainly buy them. But they are not actually an Easter product.

I used to work for Woolworths and later Morrisons and we'd get so many people coming in on Christmas Eve kicking off because things were out of stock. I never minded the questions, I did mind being treated like sh*t because mince pies or the latest game were sold out at 3.35pm on Christmas Eve for a 4pm close. So glad I don't work in retail anymore, it's awful at Christmas!

The doctor can’t cure her but could assess whether she needed urgent care and refer her to hospital or out of hours, the mum may only just have spoken to her daughter and realised gran was quite poorly.

What's grinchy about wanting to celebrate Christmas at Christmas rather than in Advent?

I'm not bothered by decorating at all abd when it happens so DH and DC do it when they want to but Ieft to my own devices if I did decorate I would be quite likely to do it on Christmas Eve ready for the 1st of the 12 days and not before and wouldn't consider that unreasonable