NomadicSky
Well-Known Member
I've worked in retail of some form for the last five years.
Four almost five years working at Sears in the hardware department.
And since July a WalMart store here in town.
WalMart is better I work overnight 10pm-7am and get 40 hours a week and they pay me more.
The WalMart store I work at has a manager who turns off the Christmas music and plays a local classic rock station at night.
Which is great.
Still one thing that remains the same are the vast amount of people who get offended when I tell them to "have a good day".
They look at me shocked and tell me "merry Christmas" so as the holiday gets closer I switch to "happy holidays" people still tell me to say Merry Christmas.
I'm not a Christian I don't celebrate that holiday.
Yes I see my family on that day and I do buy them things, I think of it as Yule.
Yule was a Germanic Pagan holiday that evolved from the Celtic Geul into much of our Christmas celebrations.
Yule was a day in which still green trees would be brought into homes from the outside usually a fir or spruce tree along with other things like holly branches and hanging mistletoe for the same reasons along with my favorite a Yule Log. It was a day of gift giving, a warm meal, and general merryment.
Most of these things I had as a child (there was no hanging mistletoe in my Mormon childhood home)
And it is a fun day, but I do not and will not wish anyone to have a Merry Christmas.
For I do not celebrate that holiday.
I just hope you enjoy the day and enjoy your whatever you do on that day.
Four almost five years working at Sears in the hardware department.
And since July a WalMart store here in town.
WalMart is better I work overnight 10pm-7am and get 40 hours a week and they pay me more.
The WalMart store I work at has a manager who turns off the Christmas music and plays a local classic rock station at night.
Which is great.
Still one thing that remains the same are the vast amount of people who get offended when I tell them to "have a good day".
They look at me shocked and tell me "merry Christmas" so as the holiday gets closer I switch to "happy holidays" people still tell me to say Merry Christmas.
I'm not a Christian I don't celebrate that holiday.
Yes I see my family on that day and I do buy them things, I think of it as Yule.
Yule was a Germanic Pagan holiday that evolved from the Celtic Geul into much of our Christmas celebrations.
Yule was a day in which still green trees would be brought into homes from the outside usually a fir or spruce tree along with other things like holly branches and hanging mistletoe for the same reasons along with my favorite a Yule Log. It was a day of gift giving, a warm meal, and general merryment.
Most of these things I had as a child (there was no hanging mistletoe in my Mormon childhood home)
And it is a fun day, but I do not and will not wish anyone to have a Merry Christmas.
For I do not celebrate that holiday.
I just hope you enjoy the day and enjoy your whatever you do on that day.