• Calfpupa [she/her]@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    If that person wasn’t there, you’d still be open though. From what I have seen of people going in during a holiday, they are all overworked with no time off and cannot get what they need beforehand, leading to them being essentially forced to.

    • Instigate@aussie.zone
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      12 minutes ago

      Depends on the store. I worked at a big box hardware store and every public holiday you’d have old geezers just milling about wanting to strike up a 30 minute conversation with you about some esoteric project they’ve been working on for the last six months while you’re frantically mixing four different customer’s custom paint colours and trying to point other customers in the direction of things that have huge signs already directing customers to.

    • village604@adultswim.fan
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      12 hours ago

      Not to mention that many places take volunteers to work holidays since not everyone celebrates. And it’s not uncommon to get a bit more per hour from it.