Morons wanting more

My superiors at work are talking about opening our garage 24-hours a day. A while back they tried to make me bin a member of staff, now they want me to find a way to man the place through the night. I don’t see the point. The store closes at 10 and the last hour is really slow, so the fuel takings between 9 and 10pm barely cover the cost of the lighting. But they seem to think we might get one or two customers overnight which would add up to a few pounds profit somewhere and that’s the only incentive they need to make my life harder and to force some poor sap desperate for a job to sit in our kiosk in the dark serving stoners and insomniacs. I don’t know where these ‘overnight customers’ might be coming from - it’s not as if we’re on a main road or close to an all-night cinema or anything.  But someone somewhere getting paid to look at a spreadsheet and squeeze every possible penny out of the British public has decreed that it might be worth doing, so now I have to come up with a way to make it work. Will I get paid extra for doing it? No - it will be included as part of my managerial duties. When did I find out about this? This morning. When do they want my ideas by? Monday.
So much for a weekend off.

RC 22-7-16
1955 BST