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I used to do night shift product stocking. Store was open, but very few customers and they were all chill. One even taught me how to use the key duplicator machine so I could make theirs since nobody had done that. I wouldn't realistically go back because I've advanced a lot further in my career elsewhere, but I do think about it in an Office Space kind of way. Instead of working construction, I'm just putting stuff on shelves. Mostly because my office job feels just as pointless and I don't like the client base I help on the daily. Take me back to claiming dibs on the toy aisle that got fucked up by kids every day and so provided an endless source of work away from other employees and managers. Zen mode while picking up Bop-Its and cool plastic swords.
Where I live they don't do that during the night anymore. The workers have to restock the shelves while the store is crowded and customers are trying to buy things
Oh they definitely did that too, but day workers got paid less yet had to deal with more since they would constantly need to interact with people or dodge customers (me every time I'm at the store now). Not enough people want to work like 10 pm to 6 am the next day though. Other than that, we were just expected to stock more shit more quickly since nobody was really bothering us.
EDIT: Honestly, night shift is super sick if it doesn't kill your social life. I also worked at a hotel during night shift where I basically played emulators on my phone unless someone showed up to check in or ask for something in the middle of the night.