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Showing Original Post only (View all)Retail Workers Bear Brunt Of Sluggish Holiday Sales [View all]
(NPR) Several large retailers took a leap of faith on what they thought would be a gangbuster holiday season, hiring more seasonal workers this year than last.
Sales during the two months before Christmas weren't all that stunning, however, and that's meant fewer opportunities for seasonal workers.
Some of them worked vastly fewer hours than they expected. Onieka O'Kieffe, 23, was hired by Lush Cosmetics in midtown Manhattan for the holiday season. Lush told her she'd be working 20 to 30 hours per week, she says, but instead, she's getting only 10 hours a week at most. That's bad news for someone who has a few thousand dollars of credit card debt. O'Kieffe says she's losing out on hours because Lush just hired too many people this holiday.
"There's been times where there's 10 of us in the store and there's no customers," O'Kieffe says. ...........(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.npr.org/2012/12/30/168283255/retail-workers-bear-brunt-of-sluggish-holiday-sales
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The number of seasonal resort jobs is not even in the same stratosphere of seasonal retail jobs.
marmar
Dec 2012
#2
I thought about saying something to get myself banned from this thread via jury, then
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#6
sure retail jobs used to be huge- but we have the internet these days and times change.
Sunlei
Dec 2012
#11
I was formerly one of those retail store workers and I resent your general attitude towards people
DearHeart
Dec 2012
#9
I didn't say you were lazy. I commented on the article. Retail sales are in decine. Gone soon.
Sunlei
Dec 2012
#12
Sorry, I know that you didn't say I was lazy, it's the general attitude of "most" people. I'm
DearHeart
Dec 2012
#20
I'm surprised that its acceptable for the American common people to accuse each other...
AZ Progressive
Dec 2012
#17
I know my place! Been put in my place several times by managers, DMs, and yes, especially
DearHeart
Dec 2012
#19
The recovery is largely an illusion. What's happened is that banks are flush with Fed funds
leveymg
Dec 2012
#3
But - GASP! - that means the 1% that controls 40% of the wealth in this
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#7
Exactly! The only thing I like about Henry Ford was that he did pay his employees a good living wage
DearHeart
Dec 2012
#10
Right, but a lot of DUers prefer Hyundais, Toyotas, and other "right to work" made vehicles...
Romulox
Dec 2012
#13
I learned this stuff in 7th grade! I gues that some people never learned it at all.
DearHeart
Dec 2012
#21
These rich people supposedly get such a "fine" education at wonderful universities like Harvard,
DearHeart
Jan 2013
#30
these idiots only got in because of name and money , and these wealthy types who did nothing
JI7
Jan 2013
#32
The only way that employers give a "rats ass" about their employees is if they make money off of
DearHeart
Jan 2013
#25
The Rich are not thoughtful enough to realize that people need money in order to buy
AZ Progressive
Dec 2012
#18
I too think it's treasonous! They've subverted the economy of the US in favor of their own
DearHeart
Jan 2013
#26