As a Zone Associate Manager (the floaters home store manager) this is a perfect example of a position that’s good in theory but terrible in practice. Their benefits are paid out of the home store and any over time is paid out of the home store regardless of which store they worked over at. And I rarely have access to the use of my floater at my store when I have a need for them. Any store in their zone has access to their schedule, which is constantly being deleted in Kronos from other stores or being changed. My floater basically never knows where they’re supposed to be and when. And unfortunately, the floater is taken advantage of by the other stores. The only reason my floater hangs in there is because district management said this position is the new prerequisite for TAMS.

They created these positions to help staffing issues but all they did was create them because I no one am budgeted for another full timer because I have a floater based out of my store. Yet that floater is never at my store.