Knowing it could ALWAYS be worst. I work Nightcrew and come in at 9 pm. Checkers can NOT call night crew to check, bag, lot service etc, because we have our own work to do. I go through my load knowing that I can actually get my work done without having to drop everything on a dime and come up front.
Motivation? No such thing. When I go to work I normally put my personality/brain on standby mode until I am able to leave. I don't come back to being myself until I am in front of my computer screen playing some game or watching tv. I just know that when I get home there is content waiting for me to consume :D
Also.... energy drinks.
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hm. i usually work closing shifts, so i look forward to when it gets pretty dead after 11:30pm and that hour that I'm there after the store closes with no customers between 1 and 2am
Believe it or not, sometimes a customer would make my day. Seeing a regular and hearing about something great with them or they remembered a joke I told them. My regulars were good about this. They could tell when I was overwhelmed and did their best to say something nice. Like SCO said, after 11:30 or so, my store died so I'd take my Uscan handheld and go smoke a cigarette outside with the night crew guys.
When I was a cashier time passed a lottttt slower. I worked on trying to get my ring tender up and depending on coworkers that were there during my shift that made time go by faster because we would print off our items per minute slips and compare and compete with each other. I'd always look at the clock too and say okay 30 minutes from now I'll have 8 hours and 30 minutes from now I'll have 7 hours then it would be time for my first break and time usually passes faster that way. For me anyway. Also I'd look at what people buy and think of recipes or what I wanted to make for dinner. Sometimes I miss the simplicity of Cashiering and just scanning groceries and not having to think. Pharmacy requires a lot more thinking lol.
Being able to get a majority I my work done without being hassled during business hours. And recently a vacation I put in for in August. Going on a trip with a friend and my cousin. Just 3 guys. Should be epic.
1. Money! I wish I made more than 8.25hr, but sucks. Payday keeps me going too.
2. Fun customers, chatty folks, amusing folks, or just pleasant. Spare me the quiet ones, the simple food-for-money folks, and people that will only speak the "how are you? good, how are you?" exchange. Interesting people make for a breezy shift.
3. Having enough baggers, usually not happening but great when there's enough. Otherwise I'm doing twice the work for one paycheck and customers love to just STAND THERE. I wish I could refuse to bag it for them.
4. Fun coworkers. I've got a handful or two of them. Some make jokes, keep good vibes going, others I consider friends and enjoy personal chats with about mutual interests, other coworkers are enjoyable company or offer conversation to customerw when I go into autopilot/grind mode.
5. Easy, not insane orders. No $300 EBT orders with half the store on the belt. Did the government buy them industrial freezers too?! No gripy customers is nice too!
6. Less WIC, the better. New WIC SmartCards are nice too! People still get the wrong stuff though.
7. Knowing my break is coming soon, or it's the last hour of my shift. Or focusing on personal plans after work, etc.