Target Made Me Hate Christmas
For the people who don’t know, I work casually at Target, a budget retail chain that’s quite popular in Australia. Prior to working there, I have always liked the holiday season.
Now, I just bloody hate it.
Why? Because Target assumes all of its workers have no social life. And that they are happy to be placed in crappy 5-10pm shifts during the extended opening hours Christmas shopping weeks. Which entails this week and the next.
From last Tuesday till this Saturday, I have been placed in the last shifts of the day. Aka the ‘Crappy Shifts’, because it effectively prevents you from doing anything else for the day.
And my Malaysian and Singaporean friends complain that shops here close at 5pm (on a normal day). I’ve now seen the light, and bloody hell, I’m longing for those post-Christmas days again.
In the meantime, I’m gonna try getting all my Fridays and Sundays off from next week onwards. Because really, my work is really beginning to cramp my social life here.
Fcuk you, Target.
fuck u chan shijun
18 aussie dollars an hour and u’re complaining?
Sissy
Comment by del — December 13, 2007 @ 5:02 am
cibai boi, that’s strong labour law for you then. Go support DAP or PKR to get the same thing in M’sia.
And btw, there is something called penalty rates here. You get paid extra for any work that’s after 5pm (1.5x) or on Sundays (1.2x).
Lol, sorry mate
Comment by sigma — December 14, 2007 @ 12:32 am