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  • #1

    "Why are you open/working on Christmas" responses

    Everyone post your preplanned responses to people asking you those on tuesday. Here's mine

    "I'm jewish" (Not true but it shuts them up and embarasses the hell out of them for asking such a closed minded question)

    "Why are you out shopping on christmas?"

    "Because people like you are shopping on christmas"

    "Yeah we're open. So what?"
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    "Today is Christmas?!?!?!"
    "I'm still walking, so I'm sure that I can dance!" from Saint of Circumstance - Grateful Dead

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    • #3
      "Because people don't have the politeness not to die during the holidays."

      Seriously, I have gotten this question and I've always wondered about the people asking it. Yes, it's Christmas, but we're the NEWSPAPER, and you can bet if there wasn't news on Wednesday morning, people would freak.
      "Maybe the problem just went away...maybe it was the magical sniper fairy that comes and gives silenced hollow point rounds to people who don't eat their vegetables."

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      • #4
        "Because I'm trying to get enough money for next year's celebration."
        Unseen but seeing
        oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
        There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
        3rd shift needs love, too
        RIP, mo bhrionglóid

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        • #5
          "Because people insist upon watching television on Christmas morning - and some are so addicted, they even have to watch it while opening presents with their children."

          I actually said that when I worked at a television station to someone who called to complain about a usually live morning show being replaced with a pre-taped show so that most of the staff and crew could have the morning off. The guy was complaining because the pre-taped show did not have the usual recap of the previous night's news. I could hear the TV show blaring over his family's conversations and kids' squeals in the background as they were opening gifts.

          After I told him it was a special program and why we had pre-taped it, he got snotty and asked why I was working on a holy day. That was when I said the above before wishing him a merry Christmas and hanging up.
          Last edited by South Texan; 12-18-2007, 07:45 PM.
          "Ignorance is no excuse for a law."
          .................................................. ..................- Alfred E. Newman

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          • #6
            We always get that on Christmas. Never fails a customer always comments on how sad it is we are open on Christmas. Usually I just bite my tongue, but I did tell one customer that if people would not come in, then we would have no sales and then we could be closed on Christmas.

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            • #7
              How about "So I don't get fired."

              I've noticed that places that are open on Christmas do not take employee time-off requests for that day.

              Waffle House (one of my finer moments, I must say) for example. Open christmas day, everybody works, you don't show up/call in, you don't have a job anymore.
              "What size can I get you, ma'am?"
              "Red."
              "Okay...I'll check the red for you, but what size do you need?"
              "RED!"
              "..."

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              • #8
                Quoth IHateStupidCustomers View Post
                Waffle House (one of my finer moments, I must say) for example. Open christmas day, everybody works, you don't show up/call in, you don't have a job anymore.
                Yes, I recall that. They informed me that not only was I required to work, but that we would not be leaving the restaurant, they would set up a cot in the back for us to nap on during breaks.

                I said and left the instant I had a better job...two days later.
                "Maybe the problem just went away...maybe it was the magical sniper fairy that comes and gives silenced hollow point rounds to people who don't eat their vegetables."

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                • #9
                  Hehe...I don't!
                  I don't go in for ancient wisdom
                  I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
                  It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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                  • #10
                    I like the answer that my mother gave people (this is the same answer she used when people asked why she worked on sunday as well), "i'm here because you want me to be here"... and then wait for them to figure it out.

                    The one I have for this year is "because as much as people plan in advance sometimes they will need to have something changed at the last minute, and that's what I'm here for"
                    If you wish to find meaning, listen to the music not the song

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                    • #11
                      Well I won't be..

                      But my Sarcastatrontm responses would be:

                      Everyone stayed open for HALLOWEEN, and none of my Coven bitched!!

                      Isn't SUNDAY the day of rest???

                      Yeah... But I'm MUSLIM (beatings by the secret Police notwithstanding...)


                      No Habla MORON...

                      ...and why aren't YOU at home?? Overthumped the book again??

                      ...Actually, I was hoping to be accosted by strangers. How STRANGE ARE YOU??:devil:


                      YOU LOOK LIKE YOU NEED A HUG!!!
                      .../


                      Hey.. Were'd he go??
                      .../

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                      • #12
                        Before this get's out of hand.

                        NO RELIGION BASHING!

                        thank you

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                        • #13
                          Whatever complaints I may have about where I work, my employer is smart enough to make sure that we are CLOSED on Christmas Day.

                          My reply would be this, "I'm working because YOU decided to come out and shop. If all of you stayed home with your families, I could stay home with mine."

                          As it is, I'll probably be dining out on Christmas Day and tipping extra for it.
                          "Sigh, I'm going to Hell.....but I'm going with a smile on my face." -- Gravekeeper

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                          • #14
                            Quoth Mike Taylor View Post

                            As it is, I'll probably be dining out on Christmas Day and tipping extra for it.
                            likewise... last year I ended up going to Denny's on Christmas... not really by choice, my kitchen decided to stop working... and I left almost a 50 percent tip.
                            If you wish to find meaning, listen to the music not the song

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                            • #15
                              - Because homeless drunks don't care it's Christmas

                              - Because I'm poor as hell and I get paid double time for this

                              and my response for this year(hopefully I'll get out of it)

                              - Because the F**ker who was suppose to do this shift no showed a previous shift and gave a lame excuse so he was fired

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