A week of night

This past week was the first week in quite a while were I actually had hours at work. The catch, I started at 10 pm (7 pm on Sunday) and finished around 9am every day. I volunteered to work the night shift in order to redo the entire computer department. The original layout made the department feel small and there was no visibility to know what was happening throughout the department. There were high bays that were about ten feet tall holding all the product. The good thing about these was their ability to hold lots of product and overstock on top them. They also were the reason that the department felt so small.

For the whole week, we would take down a high bay and all the product on it and build smaller gondolas. We then would try to make everything fit. Not only were we changing what was holding the product, but just about every item in the department had a new home. So we moved everything sometimes everything multiple times. The printers got moved a total of 5 times. Any time something heavy needed to be moved, they would find either my self or the other volunteer from the computer department. It did not take long for the both of us to become rather sore from the lifting.

One night we got to move the speaker displays. They are all on shelves with a sub shelf designed to hold all of the wiring and a circuit board to allow them to be tested. The best hand hold on the shelves were holes in the side that you could fit three fingers in. It was not a comfortable grip and the shelves weighed quite a bit. The Bose display was set up on a 4 foot by 1.5 foot particle board base with another particle board 4 foot by 1 foot back. This one was by far the heaviest and when we were setting it up, we got one side of the shelf in place and I was not able to get my side in place. The person helping me came to help and we moved it just a little and the whole shelf came out and the Bose display fell leaving a rather large dent in the base of the gondola. But nothing on the display broke because it was all bolted to particle board.

It was surprisingly easy to adjust to a night schedule. I found that when I got home I was not even all that tired, until I stopped moving, then I fell asleep fairly easily and then wake up in time for dinner, or breakfast as the case may be.