Should all shops be closed on Boxing Day?

BarryBlue

fierystormcloud wrote: »

I agree. And what I do find incorrigible and quite disgusting, is people who say 'I don't do Christmas,' or 'it has no meaning for me so the shops should be open!' Just because they don't celebrate it, that doesn't mean they've got the right to demand that people work just for them.

What I find disgusting is being told by people like you what I want, what I need and what I should be doing at Christmas or at any other time.:mad:

Yes, Christmas means nothing, it is just an annual spendfest to us. I would never dream of queueing for shops and their sales, but who are any of us to tell other people what to do if they want to, and if businesses wish to provide that, then fine. We are supposed to have a free market. Except where religion interferes!

We, like lots of other people, choose to dine out with friends on Christmas day. None of that turkey dinner nonsense for us. But it is our choice and the place we go are happy to serve us. Nobody tells you not to sit eating your awful turkey dinner while wearing silly hats and watching tripe on the TV, so why do you feel entitled to tell others what they should or should not do. Why can't people stop interfering in the lives of others and mind their own business?:p

mumps

poppycracker wrote: »

dont forget those of us who work in the restaurant/hotel trade. Luckily we close on christmas eve and reopen on the 28th, but this is very very unusual. Let people cook their own christmas dinner, and let us be at home with our families, we will have had a *very* busy December and already I'm sick of the sight of turkey and christmas pudding!

Exactly, why are there always these tears for retail workers and everyone else doesn't matter.

I sympathise with the turkey and christmas pudding. My husband is a Christmas dinner fanatic and I have already been out for two Christmas meals with turkey, sprouts, Christmas pudding the lot. My daughter hates turkey so I think I'm doing turkey for the men, husband, daughters partner and sons, and the girls are having chilli. No one likes Christmas pudding except husband so I might get one of those little individual ones for him.

mumps

BarryBlue wrote: »

What I find disgusting is being told by people like you what I want, what I need and what I should be doing at Christmas or at any other time.:mad:

Yes, Christmas means nothing, it is just an annual spendfest to us. I would never dream of queueing for shops and their sales, but who are any of us to tell other people what to do if they want to, and if businesses wish to provide that, then fine. We are supposed to have a free market. Except where religion interferes!

We, like lots of other people, choose to dine out with friends on Christmas day. None of that turkey dinner nonsense for us. But it is our choice and the place we go are happy to serve us. Nobody tells you not to sit eating your awful turkey dinner while wearing silly hats and watching tripe on the TV, so why do you feel entitled to tell others what they should or should not do. Why can't people stop interfering in the lives of others and mind their own business?:p

Hilarious isn't it. I like a quiet Saturday so henceforth I think all shops should be closed on Saturdays, no football matches, no pubs or clubs. It will be far better for everyone and if you want to disrupt my Saturday that is just selfish:rotfl::T

LilElvis

Better put an end to all the Boxing Day football matches too as no one "needs" to watch 22 blokes kick a ball around, or be served with beer and pies at half time.

Proxima_Centauri

LilElvis wrote: »

Better put an end to all the Boxing Day football matches too as no one "needs" to watch 22 blokes kick a ball around, or be served with beer and pies at half time.

The knock-on effects of Boxing Day football matches is hardly ubiquitous. In fact despite 4+ decades on this planet I didn't even know there were any :rotfl:

LilElvis

Proxima_Centauri wrote: »

The knock-on effects of Boxing Day football matches is hardly ubiquitous. In fact despite 4+ decades on this planet I didn't even know there were any :rotfl:

I was being facetious. Lots of events are staged on Boxing Day and yet everyone is bemoaning the lot of retail workers.

To be fair to all employees then all we really need are the emergency services and those manning the utilities. Nothing else. Of course this would mean no TV so riots would doubtlessly ensue.

BarryBlue

Proxima_Centauri wrote: »

The knock-on effects of Boxing Day football matches is hardly ubiquitous. In fact despite 4+ decades on this planet I didn't even know there were any :rotfl:

Boxing Day is a major day in the sporting calendar and not just for football. Boxing Day fixtures have been the norm since the late 19th century, and until the late 1950s they would be the return fixtures from those played on Christmas Day.

It is also a major day in the horse racing calendar with many meetings taking place. If you are in Australia it is also one of the biggest days in the cricket year, the opening day of the Melbourne Test Match, attracting up to 90000 willing punters if it's an Ashes Test.

Wanting things to close down on Boxing Day is just sheer selfishness by people who want to tell others how to live their lives. It always makes me think of the sort of state control so despised by the leftie-haters, which is somewhat ironic really.

Mrs_Ryan

Petrol may be essential for some people- for example hospital staff, if they have no petrol how do they get to work? Or police cars or home care workers who have to travel round their different clients?

duchy

No sporting events for retail staff though.

Yes anyone who works in hospitality knows Christmas is no holiday for them , but you'd not be going into the business not knowing this. Retail it's a relatively new development.

Football and shopping would be my idea of hell (although my local FC pays well for Boxing day) but football I "get" as it's traditional. Queuing up outside next overnight on Christmas night is just batshit nuts.

bugslet

Friends of mine haul mushrooms for supermarkets. Xmas day is off, but the drivers start back on Christmas day evening.

I don't shop much anyway, and really I like the idea of a couple of days peace and quiet and all the non essentials shut down, but if people want to work, then let them. 5 on Boxing Day though.....later would be better.