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Hmm, i was working yesterday. And true enough, as DC said, most of the managers managed to waggle a day off. Being on customer services doing returns for unwanted gifts all day boxing day was not my ideal way of spending the bank holiday. I wouldnt have minded so much if the customers were a bit more pleasant.

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Hmm, i was working yesterday. And true enough, as DC said, most of the managers managed to waggle a day off. Being on customer services doing returns for unwanted gifts all day boxing day was not my ideal way of spending the bank holiday. I wouldnt have minded so much if the customers were a bit more pleasant.

but thats the type you'd expect to see out on days like that. snobby retards with nothing better to do, "you! girl! i have come to return this wine!" etc.

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oh but they do want to be there, thats why i hate them so much. my mum used to have to work in a furnature store on boxing day, the same type of places who spend loads on adverts for it with songs like 'wake up it's a beautiful morning' and 'baby im ready to go', like the staff are really f*cking up for it(!) i just treat it like christmas day, like they aren't open. they wont get anything from me on a boxing day.

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I managed to bump into a local BBC broadcaster on the streets, and then end up bumping into the local ITV news crew. Media personalities galore. I was quite surprised at the amount of medium sized clothes left in Next at 12.30pm today. Crazy people had queued up at 4am.

I logged on to the Next website at 8am to order a ring for my mum, but it had sold out. I imagine it was a ploy to get people on. In the end the website crashed so I called up and did get a ring for £150 instead of £300. Genuine bargain.

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Is your mum paying you back for the ring or is that a rather expensive and late present?

The town centre was busier this afternoon than it was before Christmas. The New Look sale has sold out of most things bigger than size 8 and smaller than size 18, but that's quite normal.

'Forget happiness I'm fine, I'll forget everything in time'

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