Christmas staff?

[steveM]

Do you hire extra staff for christmas?

[brianJ]

We don't. We have skeleton staff anyway . The most people working on the shop floor at anyone time is two to cover the busy periods like when school has finished, and people coming home from work.

[max66]

We end up hiring quite a large amount of christmas staff just to try and cope with all the extra demand . We can only have so many till operators which would be covered anyway , but it's more to try and keep stock on the shelves.

[dozydave]

Yes we have to hire a large quantity of extra staff we wouldn't be able to manage otherwise. Business is good anyway but at christmas we obviously intend to increase profits on a large scale and can't do so without the extra bodies.

[phil]

I started out as a christmas temp at the store I am at now, and after four years of graft am now assistant manager . Only instead of being the one who is interviewed i am now the interviewer which is still strange. So we do get extra staff in and occasionaly if they have something about them they will be offered a permanent contract.

[emmab]

We don't hire people solely for the christmas period. We have alot of students with us throughout the year who work a few evenings during the week and at weekends too. They generally want more hours when they are not studying so that's where our extra staffing comes from.