Yeah, in retail I discovered time is just a construct and just planned my sleep around my shift. If I closed tomorrow, I’d just get to bed tonight about 02:30 so I could be up at 10:30. I spent more time exclusively in an opening shift in my 15 years, and so I certainly preferred waking up at 04:30. On any of the schedules that I wrote, I always gave some space around a schedule flip if I needed an opener to close or vise versa, because I know it sucks.
For a year, I worked a single overnight shift and 9-5 otherwise - so I’d just stay up all day Saturday, just basically pull an all-nighter and work through the night Saturday night and then tried to nap as early but as little as possible Sunday so I could still sleep Sunday night ahead of my 9am shift Monday.
There’s definitely a variety of shitty schedules in retail. Sucks.
Nobody wants to acknowledge this truth and it drives me insane. YouTube piracy hurts small creators. How you feel about this moral quandary is entirely up to you, but this is just a fact.