Almost everyone, including management at my store has continued to work hard this hoiiday season. While some of us, myself included, are not happy about doing extra work and staying open later on holidays, most of us are still doing our job and then some with little or no outward complaint. With the economic problems we are experiencing, I realize that yes, some people are money-hungry, and yes, Wal-Mart makes billions. I also consider myself a good Christian, and I try to go to church (before work) on Sundays. The truth is everyone needs or wants money.

Understand the importance of extra hours and less freedom on the holidays: if individual stores can’t make money, how can they pay their employees? My mother was a paralegal for several years, and she has been unemployed since April (she can’t work a standing job). Employees should consider themselves lucky to have jobs from which they are in no danger of being laid off.

As full-time employees, my husband and I have good medical coverage with low premiums, and bosses who try not to cut too many hours from their employees when they can avoid it. Neither are easy to come by right now, and while I don’t intend to make retail a long-term career, and I may have suffered a little bit in the process, I speak for a lot of people when I say these are trying times, and let us all be thankful to have a guaranteed paycheck in our pockets (or bank accounts).

Corporate greed don’t care about people, and their needs. Don’t let them fool you…………