Retail Problem #2

There are problems within everything you may encounter , the important part is how you deal with these problems. The latest retail problem is working on the weekends or the weekend shift. Although some people wake up on the weekends feeling rejoiced and excited for all the free time they will have, the weekend for retail workers is somewhat of a drag. 

Saturday which is normally the busiest day of the week for retail is also the worst day to be scheduled. Why you may ask? Well this day comes with a pile of work and if you go into work intending to leave early , you might as well forget about that pipe dream. Aside from all the returns (returns are the clothes at the front end of the store which need to be placed back on to the sales floor) you have just waiting for you, if you are apart of the night shift in some companies you are also in charge of maintaining the sales floor. This means at the end of the night you are responsible of basically cleaning up the store, hanging all the clothes back on the hangers, taking clothes off the floor, placing the shoes back on the shelf and so forth. This can be a very tiring task and after doing this for hours all you want to do is go home and sleep. 

But Saturday can also be the best day to be scheduled. It is usually the day when all the staff is scheduled and you get the opportunity to see all your work friends. I say work friends because these are people you work alongside and although it may not go past the stage of being friendly at work you guys are still cool with one another. If it does happen to go past this stage then you go are obviously now friends. Working with your work friends makes work seem not like work. It is similar to working with your friends. The time goes by fast and before you know it you are actually having fun.

By the end of the night you are not even concerned with all the work you have to do because you get to stay with your fellow associates.

That is why it is important to look at problems from both sides , the positive and the negative.

Although Saturdays are busy and sometimes horrible, if you make the best out of it the day can actually turn out much better than you expected.