At the Fantastic General Store, sometimes employees are shared between more than one department. I disagree strongly with this practice. The employee may be expected to run more than one department at the same time, which is overwhelming, and also prevents good customer service. Employees can’t be two places at once, as cloning is too expensive to use in a retail setting, and the clones tend to be less polite than the originals. This also puts the employee between a rock and a hard place if the managers of the different departments don’t get along. For that matter, a manager running more than one department is going to be overwhelmed and eventually resentful. My point, make sure your store has enough staff that nobody has to cover more than one department in order for the store to function. Learning what to do in each department is good, but covering more than one department is not.