For those that can’t stand this time of the year, my misery seeks company. What does it for you?

For me: aside from the usual family stuff:

I worked front-end in a post office back when that meant a line-up before I opened the doors to the end of the day when I had to inform the line-up that was still out the door that, yes, I was going to close on time. (Some didn’t take that well. For me it was just another Tuesday…)

It meant a lot of work with little thanks and I had to listen to the same shitty Xmas playlist over and over all day.

Edit/PS: The quick downvote sells it. Perfection. chefs kiss

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours ago

    I used to hate Xmas like hell. Everyone’s in a forced “happy”-disguise, buying stupid presents at the last minute, annoyed and stressed. And everyone expecting me to buy super expensive gifts, just because “you’re loaded!” While still making zero efforts to gift something thoughtful back (because “you already have everything”). I were happy when it was over for like 40 years of stinky fucking Xmas shit.

    Then I met my wife, we cut out ALL toxic people from our life, noone expects anything, we gift tons of tiny silly things we enjoy getting or making ourselves (the best gifts!), spend hours wrapping the stuff and then we have a fucking great Xmas for ourselves with great food, beautiful thoughtful gifts, watch some movies etc. Now I learned to love Xmas.

    My point? If you’re not forced to work in retail with those aweful people and ghastly playlists, it’s not the fault of Xmas, it’s just the toxic people around you that spoil everything.