The Store
So today marked the busiest day of the year for shoppers. Black Friday (the friday after thanksgiving) is notorious for being the day where all the stores open up ridiculously early in order to give their early bird shoppers large discounts on the inventory.
Our store was chaos. The entire Carlsbad outlet mall annually opens at 12:01 a.m and closes at 10:00 that night. That leaves almost twenty two hours that we are open that day. Our store is not staffed to accommodate those hours. That being said we brought in about ten more people from the warehouse and other stores. Even still, we were understaffed. This forced all of us to work a minimum of eight hour shifts.
I lucked out.
There were a couple shifts available. A 11:30 on thursday night to 6:00 friday morning, a 6:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m, a 12:00 noon to 8:00 at night, and a 3:00 p.m. to close.
I obtained the three to close shift. There are pluses and minuses to this shift. On the plus side I was able to sleep in and have some of the morning free.
I took full advantage of my open morning by going on a nice fifteen mile ride. It felt nice to bike after indulging of the Thanksgiving food the previous two days.
On the other side, closing in not a time. Closing depends on two things, how fast the manager counts the money and closes the registers, and how long it takes the closing employees to clean the store. This Friday and Saturday the store closes an hour later as well. Between the seven closers and manager it took us almost three and a half hours. By some sort of magic the store slowed down about 8:00 leaving us closers a small window to jump start on our cleaning. So my shift ended up being a 2:30 (I came early) to 11:45 p.m. I got by solely on a cup of coffee in the morning, a venti iced white chocolate mocha at Starbucks, and a Red Bull.
It was tough but I got through.
Anyway on the monetary side I bought that coffee mid day. Good bye $4.50
End Day: +$209.20
