AIBU to think the staff in ASDA shouldn't be wearing santa hats in November

[workshy]

half of them on the checkouts and a few of the shopfloor staff had them on today

december I can understand but November???

Thanks for the warning-I'll make sure that I don't go.

Asda really is the lowet common denominator supermarket. I know this because I shop there They probably think that they're getting the divs to part with their cash more readily because WAHEY IT'S CHRIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAS.

FFS.

Supermarket staff should just smile and be nice and personable. And helpful. Nothing more required. Don't give a shit if you love christmas or have got your "comedy" Pudsey ears on.

I am a Waitrose shopper trapped in an Asda shopper's body. :(

think of the poor staff having to put up with that until xmas day

I went into work last week and was given a Regatta fleece with Merry Christmas on the back. GM is not impressed that whilst they're cutting hours they're splashing out on ridiculous fleeces we only wear for a month.

I think we have the hats in December.

YANBU.

I would just refuse to wear one if I was Asda staff. Against my beliefs. My belief that Christmas does NOT START IN EFFING NOVEMBER YOU CORPORATE COCKENDS.

manticlimactic

do you work in Morrisons?

but it will have run out by christmas if everyone starts now

Got it in one workshy

I must have been really bad in a previous life

If I were Prime Minister, I would bring the banhammer down on all christmas-related shenanigans until December 1st.

After December 1st, go wild. Make yourself a tail by sticking a string of tinsel into your arse, I don't care. Just stop killing the bloody magic by starting the commercial drag in fucking June. I've had enough of Roy Wood moaning about it not being chrstmas every day already.

manticlimactic

hehehe

there is a morrisons on the retail park where I work and we noticed them last week

and we are not jealous that we have to put up with our boring old all year round work fleeces at all

I have the pleasure of working at a particularly scuzzy branch. I've just finished my shift. The Christmas music has started, the place is decorated with tinsel and I have been given the option of purchasing my very own Asda Christmas uniform complete with santa logo. As if the nasty green isn't bad enough.

I hope you've told them to stick it up their jotter, Spartak.

at having to buy your own!

workshy I may moan about having to wear the horrid things but by heck they are lovely and warm.

They market the seasonal uniform like its a special offer. And even offer the option of paying for it in convenient installments taken directly from our paypacket.

Sadly I like the feeling of cheap green cotton so much that I won't be spending my wages on a red version.

Bupcakes I wonder if you are the lady I heard in a certain town in Yorkshire whee the shopping is piss-poor say I'm a Waterstones shopper stuck in a W H Smith's shopper's body.

manticlimactic at least your on the tills, i get the sexy Apron with bright pink tie back , over my Bump. i look like a beached whale. I would love a Fleece . Our GM is mad on fund raising so i love seeing all the till staff dressed up over the year, it was Pajama day last Friday.

I was in a 99p shop the other day and heard Christmas muzak. But... for... a... change... I... was... pleased... that... it was a Christmas carol and not a Christmas pop song like Jingle Bells or White Christmas or Rudolph or Have Yourself a.... or .... or .... Another customer commented favourably on it, too.

Spartak

Do you have to pay for your uniform? I worked temporarily at Tesco a couple of years ago and was supplied with a uniform. When I left, I was told to take my uniform with me: 2 red fleeces, 2 navy fleeces, four navy blouses and two pairs of navy trousers. The Tesco logo on the trousers is so unnoticeable that I can wear them anywhere that is not posh or more up market.

I feel for the poor staff and don't think they should have to dress up like silly billys santa. Agree with all who say it should be banned until December - in fact I think it should be banned until the week before Christmas day but I'm a grumpy old woman.

You don't have to wear the hat yourself, what's the problem?

If you had to wear one to shop there I could understand your issue, but like it or not Christmas is coming and some people LOVE Christmas and everything that goes with it - naff hats, light up earrings and tinsel wrapped around your scrunchie. (none of them aplly to me )

It's just a hat....

YABU and grumpy.

apply - not aplly!

We only have to pay for the Christmas uniform. We get supplied with the normal green and black for free - although only two shirts which is a bit of a pain as the colours run so need to be washed separately.

We're also allowed to wear promotional stuff for various charity campaigns but have to buy that ourselves at the full price that the customers pay.