Nights

Well I have been working nights for about a week and a half now and I like it for the most part. I am still technically a cashier so that means that I get stuck at the register sometimes, but I have been sent to various departments around the store to stock, to include grocery, hardware (many smashed fingers), housewares, and toys (evil department). So far I have been sent to hardware the most, which is good because I like that one the most, other than the finger smashing paint cans it isn't too bad. Since I have been over there a few time now I know, or have a general idea, where stuff goes and there isn't a lot of stuff that I see and just can't live without. Unlike hardware, I hate toys, it is always a mess, it seems like there is absolutely no rhyme or reason to anything, not to mention, it is a larger department. The department manager of hardware told me that she likes the way I work and wants me over there overnight. Fine with me, it would get me away from the register, I could completely learn the department, and I could build muscles with all that paint. LOL :) The few nights I have been stuck at the register all night have taken f o r e v e r. Most nights we have breakpacks, basically there is no organization to it, stuff that has been ordered that a whole case is not needed is just thrown into boxes and we, the cashiers get to sort it out. There are normally at least 2 pallets taller than me (5'4") that we have to sort through, which if we are lucky takes until lunch, 4 hours, but normally there are 2 of us working on them and it gets done earlier than that, say the first 2 hours. We get that done, while running the register also, and then sometimes we have department 82 stuff (impulse merchandise, the stuff up by the registers, candy, batteries, all that stuff) and we get to try to stock that stuff, but that doesn't take very long either. Pretty much after that all that is left is to zone the registers and make sure they look nice and don't have odds and ends that customers have just shove places, and then to wipe down the registers if they haven't already been done. I know sounds like a lot, but really it isn't. That is why I would rather be stocking than cashiering, but we are short on cashiers.