Ginnia Barringer builds a 9-foot tree at The Pool Place. Hiring is beginning to pick up for the holiday season.It’s been Christmastime since the beginning of September as far as Mary Ann Twitty is concerned.
That’s when the Covenant College art school grad started dressing trees and crafting garlands.
“I try to incorporate art with this lovely glitter plastic stuff,” she said while hot-gluing ribbons and ornaments together. She stopped every so often to pick the materials off her skin, clothes and hair. “I don’t think I’ll ever get rid of glitter. I’m going to find it in 20 years.”
Twitty is one of five people hired each year to transform The Pool Place into a forest of Christmas trees, wreaths and lights called The Christmas Place.
For weeks now, employers across the country have been looking to hire up to 500,000 holiday-season workers, according to National Retail Federation projections. This year’s hiring plans for Christmas are holding steady from 2010, when retailers brought on 495,000 temporary employees to deal with the holiday sales rush.