Two months. Two months staffing one store, and it was all I could take.
Without getting into details, suffice it to say I was over-stressed at this store. Losing sleep one or two nights a week was not something I was going to accept. Nor was I going to accept the feeling of dread of going in to work. Every. Single. Day. Not going to happen.
This is my first week back to floating. Right off the bat, there was a sick overnight pharmacist. In the first 3 days of floating, I pulled two 18-hour days (one 8am-4pm and 10pm-8am, the other 2-10pm and 10:30pm-8am). I ran on nothing but caffeine and will power and got home from both days utterly exhausted.
But not stressed.
In the upcoming weeks, I will:
- close at store at midnight, then open a store (2 hours away) at 9am
- have picked up 3 days in a row at stores 2+ hours away (staying in a hotel, of course) before leaving town for the weekend
- return to do 2 more overnights at a store 1.5 hours from home
Man, it feels great to be floating again!
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