I worked for 5 years opening, mids and closing as a shift and what I noticed from working 4 stores is that the majority of morning people will relax after peak and not try to catch the store up. If they don’t work evenings or closes they don’t understand how much work it is to close and clean an entire store.

When I had open availability I used to be put on wha I called the “three day shift”: a close, a mid, and an open, back-to-back, 3 days straight, only 8 hours between each shift (my store’s hours to work are 430am-11:30 pm). I would constantly correct closers on how difficult opening can be and openers on how difficult closing can be. Most people seem to work one daypack or the other, but for those who have worked both they seem to understand how the grass really isn’t greener.