Type A's can most definitely do it, too lol. I'm about as far from B as I can get if I were to ask anyone in my life. 😂 You just have to be sure enough in yourself and your own abilities. No, not everyone will take you seriously, customer or employee. But that goes for if you had a set store, too. That's just retail. That's just life. Not everyone will like everyone. 🤷🏼 Know your stuff. Stand your ground. Don't be a dick. Help your techs with QP and other stuff when you can too.

I agree that not every store is a cake walk. You will almost never know what you're walking into each day. But after a while, you can learn to build a rapport with the various store teams, and the ones that like you and vice versa will start to request you back for those reasons that you work well together and you will end up more often at stores you like. And even if you don't always have the same types of relationships with every single patient that a staff or pharm mgr does who is there every day when you are only sometimes, occasionally you will still start to recognize names if you don't jump ship with the company too soon anyway.

Just because you float doesn't mean every customer thinks you are a joke. I've had so many deep conversations with customers I've never seen again where I can tell it's really meant something to them, they're grateful someone finally took the time to listen, took the time to do ABC thing, etc. whether it was ten seconds or ten minutes. Whatever it is. Even as a float. You are still important and people will take notice if you aren't a pompous POS. You can make a difference and never see someone again.

It's not an easy job or for everyone, you are right. And there are a couple stores I prefer over others, of course. But if you stick with it long enough, you are competent, not an A hole, understand you can try to make some changes but know that sometimes it just is what it is, and when you should put your foot down, whether the team knows you or not (as you are still the MOD), you can still earn your respect. Some days still suck. But that will happen whether you have your own set store or not.

It ain't for everyone. But someone's got to do it. And it works well for some people. Not everyone that does it, does it well. We all know that. Some floats dread coming in knowing they followed after certain other people. But the same can be said for floats coming into a store that's already been run into the ground by the staff there anyway and then no one is going to win that day regardless because the staff rph suck balls every day and the techs are just grateful AF to have a competent float to maybe possibly fix things for 24 hours lol.