Christmas Wish List

[RichS]

My one and only request: Health Care.

Hear you there - I have a back, hip, and knee that are getting progressively worse, and I can't afford the pain meds or the MRI's/CAT scans to see what can be done to permanently fix all of the problems.

My wish list other than that? At one of my jobs, just consistency between academics and tutoring departments. No, academic department, we don't do make-up tests at the tutoring department, we do them certain days and times that you should know, since the person in charge is in your department! You know that we can't touch them anyway! Stop sending/having students call in to the tutoring department for make-up tests!

My other job, I need to have the monitors all replaced. Not a day goes by where I have to reset/adjust 2-3 of them, and the manufacturer support cut me off when they asked me what the business address was, and I asked them what address they needed, the address that the monitors were ordered from and sent to, or the address where they are being used. That, and some other problems with their products, and I know that I'll never buy anything for personal use from them.

[pitmonkey]

The full time job I just put an app and resume in for.

[Gizmo]

To get one of the perm roles available in January. About 12 people where hired on seasonal contracts for Christmas and will get called back for Easter and Summer shifts. They are taking on about half of those as perms.

I *really* want one of those. Strangely I seem to be liking retail!

[shadowpanda]

To have something to do. I have about 5 weeks left here at my office job, and the hours are dragging because I have nothing to do. I know there are people on here who are massively over worked, please don't hate me.

For my boyfriends new job to go smoothly when it starts in February

For me to find new employment in my area of interest quickly after we move for boyfriends new job

[cinema guy]

Stools. So we no longer have to crouch down at the keyboards for the digital projectors.

[Kristev]

Stop the stress and recognize that I can't handle being around people very well.

[dougiezerts]

I wish to be off Christmas Day like 90% of the rest of the population!

[amazins20]

I wish to be off Christmas Day like 90% of the rest of the population!

Me too! It's just not fair, is it?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

The economy to get better, so that we do better on sales next year than we did the past two years and I can have more hours. We're more vulnerable to economic downturns than Wally World and Target are.

People who will actually take time to train new employees the right way and correct them when they do things wrong, instead of just throwing up their hands and saying "They're trained to do it this way, they're trained to match numbers, nothing I can do."

A new crop of buyers who don't spend our money on stuff nobody seems to want to buy, and as a result it gets marked down early and the lion's share of that merchandise coming in to the DC after that gets sent to my store.

A little investment in our building and our equipment. The bathrooms haven't been remodeled in about 15 years and people complain about them on our surveys all the time. Our scanners don't work worth a shit. Neither do our wireless printers. Getting new batteries to replace the old, dead ones we have is like pulling teeth.

A snow-plowing contractor that won't land us in court when somebody falls and gets injured in the parking lot as a result of their slipshod work.

[Fire_on_High]

My other job, I need to have the monitors all replaced. Not a day goes by where I have to reset/adjust 2-3 of them, and the manufacturer support cut me off when they asked me what the business address was, and I asked them what address they needed, the address that the monitors were ordered from and sent to, or the address where they are being used. That, and some other problems with their products, and I know that I'll never buy anything for personal use from them.

Mind PM'ing me what brand you're talking about? I might be in the market for a monitor next year to replace an old, very dark Philips CRT for my mother's machine, and I'd like to know who to avoid here.

[Ben_Who]

What is this "Christmas" of which you speak? All I know is that I'm working 10-hour days on the 24th, 25th, and 26th, alone in the office.

A quick look at the calendar shows that the last time I had Christmas off was 2000. The next time I have Christmas off, assuming that my hours don't change (and they will) will be 2014.

Enjoy your eggnog.

Love, Who?

[SuperDan]

Holiday pay. Sure, the free upgraded meal is nice. But if I'm going to spend my Christmas day afternoon/night with 3500 of my closest Chinese friends and quite possibly see a 24-hour shift for New Year's Eve/Day, time and a half would be nice.

[Kristev]

And mandatory reflection of all corporate profits back to the company instead of their pockets.

Meaning, instead of overpaying themselves for not working, and doing nothing of value whatsoever, force them to provide higher wages, hire more workers, and repair the store buildings rather than do quickie patch jobs that don't last and create unhealthy conditions.

[strawbabies]

I wish Santa would bring me a salary that actually went with my job duties.

[Seenoevil]

A bit belated but...a boyfriend would be nice.