Hanley wrote: » What about all the people working 9-5's, spending 2 hours a day communting and only just making it in the door to see their kids before they go to bed for the night? Only to get up on a Saturday morning and bring them to their football or GAA game and try to spend some quality time with them afterward... It's not like they've a bucket load of time to go shopping either!! One could argue that these actions are preserving family life!!
DOS wrote: » I work every Saturday, and have to work every second or third Sunday. My time with my family is very restricted. So, when you are bored stiff of a Sunday and decide to visit the shops to pass some time - think of how many people you are keeping from spending time with their kids growing up... What the hell do people want in looking at washing machines, tumble dryers et all of a sunday, are yea really that Sad? Why not go visit friends, relatives, elderly neighbours? Your actions are destroying family life. Rant over.
DOS wrote: » I work in a electrical shop and it trades every Sunday 2pm to 6pm. I have no problem with the management about opening Sunday, but I do with the greedy customers who support the Sunday trading regieme.
I work every Saturday, and have to work every second or third Sunday. My time with my family is very restricted. So, when you are bored stiff of a Sunday and decide to visit the shops to pass some time - think of how many people you are keeping from spending time with their kids growing up...
What the hell do people want in looking at washing machines, tumble dryers et all of a sunday, are yea really that Sad? Why not go visit friends, relatives, elderly neighbours? Your actions are destroying family life.
sweetie wrote: » that's smart, blame the punters and not the owners. get a life (or a better yet, a job that doesn't require you to work on sundays)
eve wrote: » I used to work Sunday's in retail but I still support people's rights to shop on a Sunday. At the time I was in school and the only the days I was able to work were Saturday and Sunday-without Sunday I would have lost half of my wages. I disliked doing it but it had to be done. We worked 8-2 two Sundays out of 3. The other Sunday you were in 8-7. But for all the people who work 9-5.30 Monday to Friday, Sunday trading makes our lives easier. It gives us 2 days at the weekend rather than saying we have to do everything on Saturday or take time off work. In this country I can't even get into my local bank branch because I work the hours they are open. I've grown up with Sunday trading and I want to keep it.
SDooM wrote: » .... so you didnt like it when you had to do it, but now you don't its ok.
eve wrote: » Not exactly. I accepted that that was the way it was and if I wanted to earn the money I was earning (and not half the amount) then I had no choice.
jester77 wrote: » ... Seriously if you can't manage to get in your shopping the other 6 days of the weeks then you seriously need to reorganise your life!
Beano wrote: » I think you mean the other 1 day of the week. Most of us work monday-friday.
jester77 wrote: » What's wrong with shopping after work during the week? When I lived in Ireland I had no problem getting my shopping done, used to do it on either a Monday or Friday evening after work which left Saturday and Sunday for doing what ever I wanted!
SDooM wrote: » I get the distinct feeling the vast majority of people who are berating the OP have never had to work a Sunday in retail.
SDooM wrote: there's something extra vacuous and greedy about the shoppers you get in. I know exactly what the OP is saying, and yes I think Sunday trading should be restricted Or perhaps some law enforced for all people who work Sundays with young families, etc.
However I think this is prob more of a humanities thing.
BeansMeansHynes wrote: » Saturday and Sunday are the only days I can shop for clothes electrics etc. Work 9-5.30. Most places close at 6 except of a Thursday and Friday when I have a course so am I grateful for Saturday and Sunday shopping. I dont just randomly walk around electrical shops and carpet shops on a Sunday just because I have nothing better to do.
Xavi6 wrote: » No need for the aggressive tone. Ever had to work EVERY Sunday? I have and it's no fun. Some people can't afford to just up and leave a job if they have a family to support. They may have two or three weeks without pay while going through the process ofg etting another.
sweetie wrote: » if you think that's aggressive then you need to recalibrate your emotional thingummies.
sweetie wrote: » Seriously, I just echoed what other users (stekelly) already said and I don't shop on sundays myself (I generally work 6 days a week and need the downtime.) The OP was slagging the people who avail of this service instead of the people who provide it and that got my goat. I don't remember the referendum asking the nation to vote for sunday trading and I would think it was adopted from the uk/us by money hungry retailers to make those extra euros.
sweetie wrote: » Without sunday opening there would be thousands of students going without their social lives/games consoles/books and parents would have to make up the difference.
Xavi6 wrote: » It was unnecessarily aggressive towards the OP. You told him to get a life. That's attacking the poster not the post and not really fair. Anyway...... So students never had lives before Sunday trading?
Xavi6 wrote: » No need for the aggressive tone. Ever had to work EVERY Sunday? I have and it's no fun..
SDooM wrote: » I get the distinct feeling the vast majority of people who are berating the OP have never had to work a Sunday in retail. .
SDooM wrote: » Anyway, your's is not really the case this affects: For someone like the OP, it ruins their quality of life.
Stekelly wrote: » Get off your box OP. If you dont like it, change to a job where you dotn have to work wekkends or even just Sundays.
faceman wrote: » I dont see an issue with opening sunday hours. Its convenient for me. I only wish banks would do the same! As with any job, if you dont like the conditions then change jobs.
