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There was blood in my shoes again, as I sat in the staff room waiting for my heart rate to return to not deadly.

Seriously, had I known that making some extra Christmas money was going to be this intense,

I would have just bought a big bag of macaroni and glitter and made everybody calendars.

I had seen advertisements for temporary Christmas staff for a major online retailer.

I won't say which one just in case they see this, but you might have seen people droning on about their latest innovation.

If you're still in doubt, during the training period I was informed by a manager with a puffed up chest, that the warehouse

had its own public road built by the local council just to accommodate them.

As I say, which retailer?

A major one.

The role was a picker.

As the Christmas orders flooded in, it was my job to dash around the shelves,

picking them up and bringing them back for packing. I had worked in target-based environments before,

so I thought I had known what I was getting myself into. But no, I guess you don't become a

major online retailer without knackering a few ankles.

I took a pedometer to work one day out of curiosity and was amazed to see that I covered

nearly 16 miles in a single shift. The job was monotonous, but what was worse was the sheer

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