We're an ADA/EOE compliant library with 5.2 FTE

A great mystery has been solved! Ok, so perhaps it wasn't such a "great mystery" as a personal enigma and it wasn't really solved: more like I stumbled across the answer. Still, "a great mystery has been solved" sounds much better than "I stumbled across the answer to a personal enigma," so we'll leave it at the first statement. Perhaps you are wondering just what this great mystery could possibly be. Do not worry; I'm about to tell you. I promise.

I've spent much time lately in reading job postings, and I keep coming across variations of a phrase that puzzled me greatly. This would be something like "supervises 5.2 FTE." Now, I interpreted FTE to mean "full time employees," yet I could not figure out just how one could have two tenths of a full-time employee. I can rationalize away the average American family's 2.5 children easily enough, but there is little I can make of two tenths of an employee. But today, yes just minutes ago even, I ran across a written out version of FTE to discover that FTE=full time equivalent. Aha! Now we are getting somewhere. Just where, I do not know, but I strongly suspect I'd prefer to supervise 5.2 full time employees than the 10-12 part time employees that FTE potentially indicates.