How hard are you working this holiday season?

During this winter season I am currently working everyday, and to the bone, to make money. I have bills such as rent and utilities to make as well as school to pay for. Don't get me started on gifts for the family.

So I am wondering, how is everyone else holding up? You making it through this season of consumerism? Feel free to vent or share your strife here.

I actually recently finished paying off my car, so this will easily be the smoothest holiday season I've had since adulthood. Considering I'm saving so much, since that's one huge bill off the list. So more, or less just keeping things at the usual pace.

I worked a lot of overtime last month including thanksgiving so they gave me Christmas time off this year (not a paid vacation or anything I just don't have to work those days), so I was able to schedule about a week to go home with the family.

I work 5 hours a week sometimes two weeks in a month. But my paid is larger then most peoples. 8-10 grand a month. Sprinkle some bad time and good time with in the year. I might scrape 80-130 grand a year.

Then again i just started back after a year of disability. AND I BACK DOWN WITH CHEST SCUM. Merry pagan christmas ya'll.

Still have to beat cunts with a boot today at the mall though.... i hate pagan christmas.

...the hell do you even do for a living?

As for myself, I'm financially set. I have plenty of money for what little shopping I have left to do. Bills and whatnot aren't that big an issue, since mine are either already paid this month or fairly small. I AM working a lot harder, but that's because of unfortunate circumstances at work. Everything was thrown into chaos because upper management decided to break the great scheduling we had going on.

Pimp. Nah im a photographer, lab tech, photo editor... im just general all-around art hustler. Sometimes i do other stuff. Set up studios, lay cable, scrap and 'get' items for some people. Depends how good the market is and how bad the down time. Few years i have showings of my work and sell my prints/paintings. Old traditional processing of film and prints i can sell more since no one really offers it in the market. Especially for weddings and personal boudoir photography. Some people just like the feel of paper and chemicals.

I've been venting the past couple of months in other threads, if I didn't I'd probably have gone insane. I'm happy about getting the hours but in return for getting a decent pay packet we have to deal with a load of bullshit.

• Customers being twat ends. Anti-5pbaggers, ones who take their sweet time paying or packing their items so they hold up the queue, those who get shitty with us when a technical problem with our tills arises, ones who leave their rubbish strewn about the shop floor (bottles and cups - full or empty - are the most common. Though a few weeks back I had the lovely job of scraping fresh gum off the cover of a book), leaving our baskets in the middle of the shop floor, those who stay after closing, ones who claim that we have no excuse to look or feel tired (I wish I could say "try working here for 2 weeks during Christmas and see if you feel the same"), that kind of thing.

• Most weekends the shop gets crammed. If I'm not serving people I'm trying to tidy up behind them because they ruin everything. I say trying, soon as I leave my post someone else queues up.

• Getting ridiculous amounts of stock in. Small stock room and shop floor = bad. We've had to sacrifice our one table and chair to the elements just to make room for it, so other than sitting at the computer we have to sit on boxes of stock as makeshift chairs. It got so bad we had HR down to voice our concerns about the safety risk of getting in more than we're selling, to which they told us we can cancel deliveries if it gets too much and if Head Office say anything, ignore it. Despite this, we still have 9 pallets to go and it's now Christmas week. Just, why.

Fuck the Christmas period. Not getting paid enough for this shit.

I'm working every day, but they cut everyone's hours so I have to go in and waste gas just to work the short shift.
My paycheck for last week was a third of what I usually make and once you factor in gas its almost not worth going.

working Christmas eve and boxing day.

work in retail.
pretty much what gravity cat said but we have had our stock delivery reduced from HQ but still get the normal stock that come straight from suppliers.

One of the pallets delivered to us today collapsed under its own weight while in transit. Says it all.

Freaky is making bank.....

I'm unemployed, someone hook me up with a job.......