As I have said in my last blog post the opening dairy clerk at the grocery store I work at which is about 2 days out of my week has recently been changed from 7AM-4PM to 6AM-3PM which on most days is no biggie but bites me on the ass on Wednesdays because of how late loads tend to arrive on Wednesdays. I was originally going to put this in my last blog post but since it ran so long I decided to split this into another blog post and it is how I would write the schedule for the opening dairy clerk if it were up to me. The mid shift is obvious, a 11-5 or when things are busy an 11-8 works out quite well, but anyway without further ado.

Monday 7AM-4PM: Monday's wall load (yogurt, cheese, juice ect) dosen't arrive super late but dosen't arrive super early either, and with Monday loads you also get in the add items for the week which means a very large load and lots of organization work.

Tuesday 6AM-3PM: Tuesday is basically Monday part II in a way, you get in a milk load which tends to arrive between 6AM-8AM which should take no more than an hour or so to break down and work. The earlier schedule gives more time to work through back stock and change out the cold displays later on and write a decent order for Wednesday.

Wednesday 8AM-5PM: This is what used to be the schedule for the opening dairy clerk at my store every day because before the load schedule for my store was changed nearly all loads came in around 12. Now it is just Wednesday for the most part where this is the case. Because the load arrives so late the later schedule is necessary to have enough time to at least go through most of it.

Thursday 6AM-3PM: Thursday is a tough day with both wall and milk loads coming in and sometimes at the same time. Fortunately they both come very early so this is one of the best days to have this shift.

Friday 6AM-3PM: Friday is the easiest day of the week to open, the only hard part is to write the wall load order for Saturday.

Saturday 6AM-3PM: Saturday wall loads tend to be huge but come early.

Sunday 5AM-2PM: Sunday milk loads are among the earliest of the week sometimes coming in as early as 5AM and Sunday has a lot of morning business so getting as much done as possible before the morning rush is essential