[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Cherie

do they not close early like they do down South, poor you

24 hours

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

24 hours

the 24 hour ones close at 5 on a Sunday..

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Cherie

the 24 hour ones close at 5 on a Sunday..

Only in Christian backwaters like England; in Scotland, 24h is 24h.

SO many times when I lived Darn Sarf (way down in... Lancashire ) I got caught out on Sundays like "I'll just pop to the shop" at 6pm and then remembering that everything shuts at 4 or 5 on a Sunday .

Meanwhile in Scotland, I'll be going shopping tonight when I finish work at half 10 .

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Only in Christian backwaters like England; in Scotland, 24h is 24h.

SO many times when I lived Darn Sarf (way down in... Lancashire ) I got caught out on Sundays like "I'll just pop to the shop" at 6pm and then remembering that everything shuts at 4 or 5 on a Sunday .

Meanwhile in Scotland, I'll be going shopping tonight when I finish work at half 10 .

If you can't get organised in the 6.5 days they are open we like to give the staff time with their families down South

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Cherie

If you can't get organised in the 6.5 days they are open we like to give the staff time with their families down South

They'll be working the exact same number of hours, though . It's a religious throwback and you know it . Bet it's gone in a decade or so anyway

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

They'll be working the exact same number of hours, though . It's a religious throwback and you know it . Bet it's gone in a decade or so anyway

Might be the same number of hours but weekend work does not sit well with school hours family time is important to us Southerners

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Might be the same number of hours but weekend work does not sit well with school hours family time is important to us Southerners

Yes it does, I explained this in another thread I'm sure... You work all weekend, then in the week you send the li'l buggers off to school and relax and nap on the couch and argue on Tibb and stuff. Its a flawless system...

[Basileus]

One of the Twitter comments on Christmas from the "victims" may explain why the anger over this "multiculral" disaster being shoved in our face by the same repulsive creeps who WANT us to spend money in THEIR stores - theres been non-christians on Christmas adverts before with no irritation, and the answers bloody obvious why - and this repulsive character is far from the worst either. Theres the usual pedestal lecturers on here I notice as elsewhere. Many who can't usually get through a sentence without a hefty amount of the over-used -ist and -phobic words. Strangely enough they never use them against the people like the Twitter poster somehow.....(cue the predicatable "He's not a bigot I think the same because I'd swear anything to defend them while I do the opposite to what I'm claiming....")

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by Basileus

One of the Twitter comments on Christmas from the "victims" may explain why the anger over this "multiculral" disaster being shoved in our face by the same repulsive creeps who WANT us to spend money in THEIR stores - theres been non-christians on Christmas adverts before with no irritation, and the answers bloody obvious why - and this repulsive character is far from the worst either. Theres the usual pedestal lecturers on here I notice as elsewhere. Many who can't usually get through a sentence without a hefty amount of the over-used -ist and -phobic words. Strangely enough they never use them against the people like the Twitter poster somehow.....

What are you even saying?

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

If you can't get organised in the 6.5 days they are open we like to give the staff time with their families down South

Surely there's a number of them that work shifts around one another though?

Unless the South have robots working 24/7?

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

the 24 hour ones close at 5 on a Sunday..

I'm sure ours closes at 4 on a sunday. Lazy bastards wanting an extra hour off

My mate works in tesco and apparently shes having to work xmas day. Shops not open, but they still want staff in. horrible *****. No need for anyone who works in a shop to do xmas really. Maybe with the exception of a couple of petrol stations and corner shops where the OWNERS do the shifts as they want the cash

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

I'm sure ours closes at 4 on a sunday. Lazy bastards wanting an extra hour off

My mate works in tesco and apparently shes having to work xmas day. Shops not open, but they still want staff in. horrible *****. No need for anyone who works in a shop to do xmas really. Maybe with the exception of a couple of petrol stations and corner shops where the OWNERS do the shifts as they want the cash

I think shops can be open 10 to 4, or 11 to 5, so they may open an hour earlier

no one should have to work Christmas Day, its bad enough that they start the online sales now on Christmas Day, in Ireland the shops close for 2 days Christmas and Stephens Day (Boxing) and that is how it should be, the staff need a break after the rush and before the sales start