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Let's face it, there's always been plenty of extra work to be done at Christmas time. Be it late night shelf-stacking at your local mall, cramming this year's must-have items into valuable shop space in an effort to fuel the 'pile 'em high, sell 'em dear' festive shopping frenzy, or doing the night shift down the sorting office to help out the postie, it's a tradition for students, down-at-pocket teenagers and lonely housewives. But the seasonal labour market hasn't always been just about earning pin money and having a lark. Back in the olden days, folks had to work...
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it's been having to do all that shopping, however ghastly being stuck with your in-laws
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Our history and our culture have come about because a lot of ordinary people have done some really terrible jobs. And our traditional Christmas is no exception. However dreadful it's been having to do all that shopping, however ghastly being stuck with your in-laws and your relatives' children, you can put your feet up and gloat because there's loads
of people who've had far worse Christmases than you'll ever have. Stand by to find about the gross inside job behind the Christmas roast disgusting strangely interesting how slimy seaweed made Jane Austen's table festive
and why panto relied on dangerous chemistry welcome to the worst Christmas jobs in history This could be the worst Christmas job. Shepherds abiding in their fields, watching their flocks by night, when Lo and Angel appears
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