When I first started I was assigned to a remote, suburban shop.
- It was pretty boring, but the hours were good.
When the chance for a promotion came up, I put in for a transfer to the downtown dispensary. This was the biggest cannabis shop in the city, with huge sales and a large sales team. I thought it would be more exciting – and it is – but the hours are difficult. Since the store hours are based on activity and sales, the suburban store closed at 10 p.m. but the downtown location is open until 4 a.m. Do you know what kind of people come into a cannabis dispensary at that time of night? It is a cast of colorful and crazy characters, consumed with cannabis, and I would enjoy them a lot more if it wasn’t so late. Eventually my body clock will adjust, because for the next few months I am the closing manager for the cannabis dispensary. That means I close the place down every night, and make sure all the other cannabis dispensary employees are clocked out and gone before I can leave. I usually don’t get home from work until 5 a.m. On the other hand I don’t have to clock in at the cannabis shop until 8 p.m., so I have my days and evenings free. My favorite customer is a local homeless man named Jerry, who panhandles for change all day and then spends it on cannabis at night. Jerry is the type of customer that comes to the cannabis shop at 3:30 a.m.