Surviving Week One

Some thoughts about my first full week at the new shop:

Pros:
--A well-staffed store, which means exactly what I hoped would happen with this transfer: I wouldn't have to worry about doing twenty-five other equally important things at the same time, and I could entrust the morning shift to cover the front with minimal issue.
--I'm still getting to know everyone, but so far everyone's nice there.
--I am not 'the only adult in the room'. I'm not always the main go-to when something is wrong, breaks, or is confusing. I can help and assist when needed, but I'm not performing The Paper Towel Commercial (person with issue staring dumbfoundedly at it while I clean up the mess with a cheery look of 'oh you...').
--The managers in charge are...well, in charge and not delegating their work onto everyone else, or pulling needed front end staff to do such things. Even better, they're perfectly willing to do stocking the displays and shelves themselves if and when necessary.
--To quote one of the managers: "The good thing is that when you're bookkeeping, you're bookkeeping. That's all you do until you're done. You don't have to do the home shopping orders or the front end managing or monitoring the self-checkouts. You might need to loan out more cash if need be and switch the tills, but that's part of that job. You get to focus on what you need to focus on." Which came in handy on Friday when I had to focus on not one but TWO self-checkout machines hardware-crashing on me. I was able to focus on getting IT in to fix them without having to worry about five other responsibilities. [Our Head BK has a handful of other responsibilities on any given day, but these are ones she's taken on herself outside of being a BK, like obtaining compliance signatures or upstocking front-end displays, and so on. I don't need to take those on if I don't want to.]
--I get to slow the f*ck down. And by this, I mean that when I'm doing something like monitoring the SCOs, I can just...stand there. Greet the customers, give them a hand if need be, grab their baskets when they're done, that sort of thing, and not worry about a manager coming by to say "hey, what are you doing just standing there, you could be doing A, B, C, D, and E as well." This is my assignment for the moment, and I get to focus only on that. This has made me significantly less exhausted at the end of the day.
--OMG I HAVE FORTY HOURS A WEEK AGAIN. It's been at least six months since my hours started getting cut!

Cons:
--Waking up at 3:15am to get there for 4am. I had to do this mainly so I could get bookkeeping training in with the main Bookkeeper who comes in at that time. I did it, and I can still do it when necessary when it's my turn to do such duties, but WHOOF I was out of gas by mid-afternoon. Thankfully from here on out, I'll only be doing that maybe two or three times a week, depending on the head BK's schedule.
--The front end can be a bit noisy sometimes, as there's the beeping of the SCOs, the phone ringing, and the hand dryers outside the restrooms going off, which can be a problem with my APD sometimes, but it's a very small price to pay.


So yeah, I'd say this transfer was a very good decision.