20 Horrific Secrets You'll Discover If You Work In Retail

5. The Crazy Shift Patterns

Your body will have no idea what is going on. You'll pray for the monotonicity of a 9-5 because then you'll actually have a routine and your body will be able to rest. You rarely get weekends off, nine hour days feel a lot longer when they start at 1pm and you have a 7am start the next day. You'll not be able to have much of a social life because you're always tired and all of your colleagues are working different shifts too, so it's difficult to arrange a staff night out. All of your other friends work during the week so you can't see them on your days off and that's when you actually have a day off. Sometimes you can be working 14 days in a row before you finally get time off if people call in sick or overtime is needed during busy periods.