"Why are you open/working on Christmas" responses

[CancelMyService]

Luckily I've been around enough to not have to work Christmas if I don't want to, I get to miss all this fun.

Last year however, after the nth time someone responded to my greeting with a surprised "I didn't think anyone would be there answering phones on CHRISTMAS!!!" I came back with "well people keep calling, so we have to have people here to pick up ".

[edible_hat]

I once told somebody it was because we're a convenience store, he replied with "These prices aren't very convenient! This is half the price in the supermarket!" and stormed off (after buying said allegedly overpriced item). When he was out of earshot my co-worker said "so go to the supermarket, oh wait, they're closed!" Some people just don't understand that if c-store prices were the same as supermarket prices they'd have the same hours.

I get the hours I want on Christmas day. I can have breakfast with my family and dinner with IceLee's mother. We don't really go for the big christmas lunch thing.

[Bagga]

"Why are you working on Christmas Day?"

"Because of people like YOU! WHY ARE YOU HERE?"

[MoonChild2007]

To be a smartass, I would ask them "why are you here on Christmas?" and hopefully they will shut the hell up.

To be serious though, why do customers feel the need to ask that question when they are shopping on Christmas anyways?

[queenbb]

i did have this happen to me while we were open for easter.

my response

because life doesnt stop for holidays. if we were not open who would fix your tire.
i dont mind im actually not christian. (which is true)

the same thing when i was working at drug court, we had testing on all the major holidays, lucky for me i didnt have to come in, the bosses who were on salary did since they didnt want to pay us over time. when the clients asked why we had testing i would say

because recovery is a 365 day effort.

[TryNotToBeThatOne]

No one ever asked my mom (the emergency room nurse) why she was working on a holiday. Wonder why. And I've been lucky enough to never have a job that was open for Christmas or New Year's (except the 2 months as a waitress, but I quit before Halloween).

[Tex]

Well, I am off Christmas, so I don't have to deal w/ any bullshit.

Tex

[Jacen]

"Not everyone observes/celebrates every holiday."

It's true too, I don't... mainly cause I consider Christmas and Easter to be corperation money making days.

[Shards]

I have posted this line (or, rather, a more situation specific version of it which I actually had to use at one point), in the 'customers who hit on you', board, but it still bears being put up here.

"Because they pay me holiday bonuses for working these days, and I'm saving up to put a ring on my girlfriend's finger."

[edicius]

Thankfully, I work on a college campus and don't have to work on Christmas. In fact, I'm off until January 2nd after this Friday and I get paid for all the weekdays that we're off. Please don't hate me.

[greensinestro]

I've worked many Christmases, although I have not done so in probably 10 years or more now. I have enough time saved up to where I can get out of them.

I worked in operator services (they never close) and repair (which also never closes). I now work in tech support, which ironically, is open this Christmas. I guess they figure we need to be here because people are going to get new computers and must have the internet or die in the process! Luckily, I am off that day!

[Pagan]

For all of you that do have to work this year, here's a if you should need it.

This year, the first in many, I don't have to work during Christmas. I went back to school and am on work-study. In fact, the whole school shut down yesterday and won't be open again until the 2nd of January.

[ta2ooed1]

Thankfully, I work on a college campus and don't have to work on Christmas. In fact, I'm off until January 2nd after this Friday and I get paid for all the weekdays that we're off. Please don't hate me.

Too Late

[Mike Taylor]

"Not everyone observes/celebrates every holiday."

It's true too, I don't... mainly cause I consider Christmas and Easter to be corperation money making days.

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EVERY day is a corporation moneymaking day. Everything you do that entails the exchange of money involves corporations in some way shape or form. It also feeds their employees, puts clothes on their backs, roofs over their heads, and food in their belly. That money then comes back to you in some form and allows you to do the same.

That said, here's how you celebrate the holidays without feeding into the consumer crazed frenzy that some people think that it is.

1. Donate to folks less fortunate than yourself. I do it every year through the local grocery store. I'm a little late this year, but I need to go out and get food today, so I might as well buy someone else a meal or two as well. My employer, one of your big evil corporations, also donates to underprivileged teenagers, who often get overlooked by many charities. I'll help them out in that area as well.

2. Go spend time with people that you love and care about. Eat dinner with mom & dad or the grandparents or your best friend from high school. I won't have that chance this year, as my family is either on the other end of the state or outside of it completely.

3. Even if you're not religious, reflect on this "... and on Earth, peace. Goodwill towards men." Think about the ways you can do this in your daily life.

4. Go out and enjoy the lights and decorations and watch the kids having fun. I get a lot of satisfaction out of that.

5. Tune out the "Buy! Buy! Buy!" and only give gifts if you feel they will have some real meaning to the person who receives them. Some of my most treasured possessions are rinky-dink things that have no value other than the sentiments attached to them.

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[Can I Help Your A$$?]

"Why are you working on Christmas?"



"Ma'am. The devil does not take days off."

"Because Jesus is coming, and I want to look busy ."

"Because it's Coooorporation Moneymaaaaking Day, fa-la-laaaa, it's Coooorporation Money Maaaking Day!!!!"

"Because I have no children, and, as such, I don't need to take days off."

"Because I wanted to see YOU. Hiiiii!"

"Religion-bashing."