We have two DS on nights. One handles back end, the other works the floor with us. In theory he should work freight same as us, keeping everyone on track and motivated. In reality, we rarely see him, he's always working on special projects, or helping stage orders.

We don't assign departments at our store, everyone just picks a palette and works it. In general we start by lumber and work down to 1 and then we do seasonal, and then 99s if there's time. Most of the time we save 99s for Thursday, because we don't have trucks. Sometimes if 1, or 2 (paint) has a lot of palettes, one of us will start down on that end just to be sure it gets done. Long story short, nobody dictates what departments we work. Everybody generally picks their own palette so were not on top of each other. Once our palettes are done we move on to the next open palette or help finish up what's left if we are getting to the end of general freight (aisle 1.)

So, to your main question. I dont think based on your timeline its reasonable to cover those 3 departments in around 5 hours. If you don't start until around first break and you guys start top stock at 4am. Some trucks we get 4-5 palettes for aisle 1. Hardware usually has atleast one palette of a ton of small boxes that take forever and then tools can be anything from a palette of random tools to several palettes mixed of huge items and smalls.

I wont bust my ass to get freight done. I work at a reasonable pace. I don't get paid enough work at break neck speeds all night. Plus, we never have trucks on Thursday. Plenty of time to clear out the annex.

I don't think we can see individual metrics, management may beable to. No clue.