About non-essential shops being open on boxing day

[NayrusWisdom7]

Just that I am sick and tired of christmas being ruined every year by having to work Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. The sales may be all well and good but someone has to give up their day to make it happen! I think if stores are to be open at all on boxing day they should be subject to sunday trading hours of 1-6 only. I'm sure fellow retail workers will agree.. Or maybe I'm just bitter?

It's not just retail and catering. .. my dh works in management for a high street chain betting shop and he's there all day today. Said it's been really busy. I guess it all helps pay the bills. .... !

I agree OP. Luckily I have a job that doesn't require me to work any bank holidays but I still feel really sad for people being dragged into work, away from their families to sell us more stuff we don't need.

Saying "Change your job" sounds so petulant! There's no reason why we can't survive for two whole days of the year without shopping.

So perhaps there ought to be a Christmas Curfew, except for emergencies?

Everyone stays at home from 6pm on Christmas Eve until 7am on the 27th, your home or someone else's. No shops, restaurants or any other places of employment open. Peace and quiet for all.
DD and OH had to work on Christmas Eve.

My dh is in the police. They don't shut up shop for Xmas.
I work in a related area that is 24/7.
It's just life.
I'm too knackered to even consider sale shopping.

Ps. People that eat out on Xmas day are not dickheads mean

Lots of people don't celebrate/aren't bothered by Christmas.
They may appreciate as little disruption as possible. I spent years working Boxing Day (sports related).
I had no issue with it, it was quite festive.
If you in particular don't want to work certain days, it's really between you and your employer.

Years ago, Icelands the store my oh works would be closed on Boxing Day. No chance of that now and my oh has now been called in to do a overnight delivery tonight. They also open longer hours on xmas eve where they used to close at 4, the manager had to put his foot down at closing at 7 this year instead of 8. It's silly when they do not do much business at all last Boxing Day but these companies insist on opening.

So those who have no family should be confined to their homes on their own for three days then?
I'm in Amsterdam and just about everything's open here.
Incidentally surely most people work on Christmas Eve? It's not a bank holiday so why should people not work? I think that this year is the first time I've been off on Christmas Eve in eight years.

I went out for dinner yesterday. [strokes dick on head]

I agree that there is no need for the shops to be open on Boxing Day. No need at all.

And I don't see that eating out on Christmas day makes me a dickhead either.

Am also stroking the dick on my head.

'So those who have no family should be confined to their homes on their own for three days then? '

No, they should be able to gatecrash other people's houses, or have mass sleepovers at community centres. Or in closed shopping centres where the lights and tree will have been taken care of. Christmas Festival village.
Igloo tents...

Yes I think the OP might be happy with that.

My DH works for a DIY chain. I can't imagine he's going to be that busy today. They do close 4 hours earlier than usual though. I'm in the office for 11 hours. Have only had to work Christmas Day once in 6 years so feel fortunate.

But why assume people who are on their own need to go shopping? Can't people go two days without getting withdrawal symptoms from the high street? Ridiculous.

The lights will have been taken care of.

No shops, restaurants or any other places of employment open. Peace and quiet for all.

Power stations? Water installations?

I think you may be extracting the urine, Dust!

Perhaps some of you need to move to Bavaria - shops here closed at 4 on 24th and reopen on 27th. They will close at 2pm on 31st and be closed on 1st January. Nothing except petrol stations opens on Sunday (and bakeries from 6-10am). Lots of shops still shut for lunch, some for 3 hours... We still have half day closing in small shops on Wednesday and in the case of our local shop for the whole of August. .. Supermarkets close at 8 PM.

Bavaria is 1959 but with Internet access It took about 3 years to get used to, but eventually it becomes perfectly simple not to run out of bread/ milk/ clothing... 10 years ago supermarkets still shut at 2pm on Saturdays, so I think 24/7 shopping is still decades off :o

Camolips it's not the shopping as such but the interaction. And the catering. I'm in a hotel and the restaurant is closed there. I was very pleased to be able to eat out yesterday and today.

Yeah, cba to cook your own dinner so go out a ruin someone elses christmas day = dickhead to me.

I find it really hard to understand how working on Boxing Day ruins Christmas. I know hardship and pain are relative but if doing a job where you'll be paid is the worst thing to happen to you this Christmas you're probably doing quite well.

As a seasoned retail worker, I understand that the needs of the business come first.

If demand means people will shop on Boxing Day then I'd much rather take the money through my tills in store than have them go online to shop. As long as the rota is fair (and sometimes it isn't possible to please everyone) well there's not really a lot that can change the publics want to shop.

meandyou let's hope that opinion isn't so apparent when you're dealing with customers.

I cooked my own Christmas dinner last year. I didn't speak to a soul for three days. I make no apology for not doing that again bit of course am grateful to those working who enabled me to eat in a pub yesterday.

ilovesooty Or any other time.

It wasn't that I CBA to cook my own dinner - oh no, wait, yes it was.

It was lovely my dinner out though. I had the beef.

Indeed Andrew