Here you’d get just weird looks for oversharing haha
Not really, just gotta be organic about it. ex. They hit you with a “Oh they got you working on Valentines Day? Thats rough.” You fire back with the sob story. Easy.

Why would somebody say that? They are the customer necessitating workers working on that day.

So I agree with the other comment. Here (Germany), nobody would ask that in the first place.

Am german, would ask…
Now I’m interested, why?
Because it is a form of small talk. My autistic ass tries to fit in, and if it was raining, i’d ask something about the weather. I worked in service and most of the time i was glad i wasn’t seen as a meat-robot but a human that can talk