Midweek Sleepiness
Mar. 11th, 2026 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonMind you, it is NOT exhaustion. There's no stress or drained energy from overwork. This is all from having to wake up at 3:15am to get to work for 4am.
Sure, I certainly have a lot to do at this new shop. Like at the old one, I'm a back-up bookkeeper for the head bookkeeper's days off, and when I'm not doing that I'm at the register or monitoring the self-checkouts or doing the Drive Up 'n Go orders. What I'm not doing, thankfully, is stressing out from being the only other person working the front AND answering phones AND holding the keys to the locked-up stuff AND monitoring the self-checkouts AND doing the DUG orders AND doing the courtesy clerk work of cleaning and cart wrangling AND anything else that didn't get done the night before.
No, this store is clearly better staffed. Even from doors-open at 6am, there are others here to share the weight of it all.
It's a different kind of busy here, but it's a LOT more well-managed. It's not nearly as chaotic. We do have waves of customers, but we have the staff to handle it.
I still have a lot to learn at the new store, especially considering I have a completely different processing platform to learn (which happens to run counter to the platforms I've known for the last couple of years), but I'm not feeling nearly as overwhelmed.
But yeah, I'll be happy when my schedule normalizes a little more, because this 3am wakeup means I'm dead sleepy by 9pm!
Sure, I certainly have a lot to do at this new shop. Like at the old one, I'm a back-up bookkeeper for the head bookkeeper's days off, and when I'm not doing that I'm at the register or monitoring the self-checkouts or doing the Drive Up 'n Go orders. What I'm not doing, thankfully, is stressing out from being the only other person working the front AND answering phones AND holding the keys to the locked-up stuff AND monitoring the self-checkouts AND doing the DUG orders AND doing the courtesy clerk work of cleaning and cart wrangling AND anything else that didn't get done the night before.
No, this store is clearly better staffed. Even from doors-open at 6am, there are others here to share the weight of it all.
It's a different kind of busy here, but it's a LOT more well-managed. It's not nearly as chaotic. We do have waves of customers, but we have the staff to handle it.
I still have a lot to learn at the new store, especially considering I have a completely different processing platform to learn (which happens to run counter to the platforms I've known for the last couple of years), but I'm not feeling nearly as overwhelmed.
But yeah, I'll be happy when my schedule normalizes a little more, because this 3am wakeup means I'm dead sleepy by 9pm!
