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We blame pharmacy schools we blame foreignpharmacists we blame a lot of other things but one thing we don't blame enough.

Personally I think that one of the major reasons of pharmacy job situation is thatone pharmacist is managing 1 and 1/2-2 pharmacists' workload, especially after recession in retail.

Why?? The reason could be we think we are paid more so we are supposed to do physicallabor more than using our brain. We forgot the fact that we went to school for6-7 years or we are too scared of losing our jobs or making our corporate pimpsunhappy.

Pharmacists who can do one and half pharmacists' job usually feel proud andthink that the pharmacist who is doing just one pharmacist job is not doingenough. Since when being a robot = great pharmacist???

Why did we do this to ourselves? Why a tech is allowed to take lunch while the pharmacistwho is starving has to work as a tech and pharmacist while the tech is gone?? Justbecause we went to school we did the right thing we should suffer?? No amountof money makes up for the starvation you go through in retail.

You don't have to agree with me, but just a point to keep in mind that if wewant to solve the problems our profession is facing today then we have to beunited first; but all I see is we are divided right now.

My post is mostly about retail not hospital. Hospital we have different problemsand I am not stating them in this post; at least it is not as labor intensive asretail.
 
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rockinacoustics so your focus was on English not on the content?
Good luck!!!
 
Dude...you aren't going to starve... There are people in this world who are starving...not some pharmacist making 125k/year at Walgreens.
 
Hey KARM12 I am not a dude.Oh yeah I can eat bills during my shift since they are easy to eat.
 
KARM12 said:
Dude...you aren't going to starve... There are people in this world who are starving...not some pharmacist making 125k/year at Walgreens.
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abc1234567 said:
Yeah right if I can eat bills
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There are people making 100k less than you do. Maybe they don't have student loans, but I doubt you're paying over 50k toward them annually. Rethink your expenses and don't feel that you're tied to a job.
 
Acjk that is exactly what I am doing.I have already cut my hours as no amount of money is worth losing your sanity and integrity. Other pharmacists are also leaving them after working for them for couple of years
 
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Really mountainpharmD seems like the PBM thing have healed all your retail scars.

Rockinacoustic go back to school will talk to you once you are a pharmacist.
 
KARM12 said:
Dude...you aren't going to starve... There are people in this world who are starving...not some pharmacist making 125k/year at Walgreens.
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Well working for Walgreens suck b/c I had to eat my lunch at 2PM and my dinners at 4PM. WTF.

I am more of a lunch at 12:30PM and dinner at 7PM...I don't like changing my routine.

125K isn't enough to get me to change my routine...I always refused to eat my dinner at 4PM...I didn't care who got mad...I ate my dinner at 7PM.
 
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SHC1984 said:
Well working for Walgreens suck b/c I had to eat my lunch at 2PM and my dinners at 4PM. WTF.

I am more of a lunch at 12:30PM and dinner at 7PM...I don't like changing my routine.

125K isn't enough to get me to change my routine...I always refused to eat my dinner at 4PM...I didn't care who got mad...I ate my dinner at 7PM.
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abc1234567 said:
Really mountainpharmD seems like the PBM thing have healed all your retail scars.

Rockinacoustic go back to school will talk to you once you are a pharmacist.
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Oh no...those scars are deep and will never heal.

Of course life in cubi-land is not perfect. I have the heavy mouth breather who sits behind me. Next to him is snorty....Thats the nickname for the girl who has a chronic sinus problem who snorts her nose every five seconds and who I want to take a counting spatula and shove it up her nose. Oh cubi-land has its draw backs but still beats retail.
 
joetrisman said:
For me, it all comes down to:

working > not working
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That's true and I agree with you.

I think the point the OP is making is that we are all PUSH OVERS. We need to stand up to these retail chains!

If EVERYONE refuses to eat at 4PM and must eat at 7PM (like a normal person) then Walgreens might consider closing the pharmacy from 7PM to 8PM...or is this wishful thinking? LOL
 
Oh and a 30 min lunch is way too short...I need at least an hour or two.
 
MountainPharmD said:
Oh no...those scars are deep and will never heal.

Of course life in cubi-land is not perfect. I have the heavy mouth breather who sits behind me. Next to him is snorty....Thats the nickname for the girl who has a chronic sinus problem who snorts her nose every five seconds and who I want to take a counting spatula and shove it up her nose. Oh cubi-land has its draw backs but still beats retail.
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Last Thursday an RxM who worked for WAGS for couple of years left WAGS for cubi land.
I bet she will love it. They were cutting her tech hours drastically.She went ahead and totally reduced her hours to 0😀
 
SHC1984 said:
That's true and I agree with you.

I think the point the OP is making is that we are all PUSH OVERS. We need to stand up to these retail chains!

If EVERYONE refuses to eat at 4PM and must eat at 7PM (like a normal person) then Walgreens might consider closing the pharmacy from 7PM to 8PM...or is this wishful thinking? LOL
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Are we talking about the same company?
For me and my fellow pharmacists 10-15 mins break will be more than sufficient.Whether it is at 4pm or 7pm.We do not have the luxury to choose.
What matters is we should have a break from all the craziness to sit down and eat like normal people.
Is it too much to ask? Why is it difficult for fellow SDNers to understand
 
MountainPharmD said:
Oh no...those scars are deep and will never heal.

Of course life in cubi-land is not perfect. I have the heavy mouth breather who sits behind me. Next to him is snorty....Thats the nickname for the girl who has a chronic sinus problem who snorts her nose every five seconds and who I want to take a counting spatula and shove it up her nose. Oh cubi-land has its draw backs but still beats retail.
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Do you have a stapler?
 
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abc1234567 said:
Last Thursday an RxM who worked for WAGS for couple of years left WAGS for cubi land.
I bet she will love it. They were cutting her tech hours drastically.She went ahead and totally reduced her hours to 0😀
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She will love it! Its pharmacist heaven compared to retail.
 
rxlea said:
Do you have a stapler?
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Since he is being so positive recently, I think it is all a front... Mountain and the Snorter and crew are planning on swindling his arch-nemesis CVS/Crmk for $0.00001 per transaction.
 
The original poster has a really good point about uniting as a profession, though. In my experiences during and after pharmacy school, I've seen a huge rift between hospital and community pharmacists. I know you all have, too; it's definitely nothing new. I would love to see us band together so if we did want to accomplish something - better working conditions, figuring out what to do with the surplus, or expanding "pharmacist territory", whatever - we could.
 
StevePerry said:
Since he is being so positive recently, I think it is all a front... Mountain and the Snorter and crew are planning on swindling his arch-nemesis CVS/Crmk for $0.00001 per transaction.
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I'd pay big bucks to see Mountain burn down a CVS.

Maybe we should write a musical based on SDN threads and personalities. CVS burning will be part of the final act...The CVS meltdown.
 
rxlea said:
I'd pay big bucks to see Mountain burn down a CVS.

Maybe we should write a musical based on SDN threads and personalities. CVS burning will be part of the final act...The CVS meltdown.
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Just make sure you don't leave all the money you steal from CVS inside before it burns down.
 
abc1234567 said:

We blame pharmacy schools we blame foreignpharmacists we blame a lot of other things but one thing we don’t blame enough.

Personally I think that one of the major reasons of pharmacy job situation is thatone pharmacist is managing 1 and 1/2-2 pharmacists’ workload, especially after recession in retail.

Why?? The reason could be we think we are paid more so we are supposed to do physicallabor more than using our brain. We forgot the fact that we went to school for6-7 years or we are too scared of losing our jobs or making our corporate pimpsunhappy.

Pharmacists who can do one and half pharmacists’ job usually feel proud andthink that the pharmacist who is doing just one pharmacist job is not doingenough. Since when being a robot = great pharmacist???

Why did we do this to ourselves? Why a tech is allowed to take lunch while the pharmacistwho is starving has to work as a tech and pharmacist while the tech is gone?? Justbecause we went to school we did the right thing we should suffer?? No amountof money makes up for the starvation you go through in retail.

You don’t have to agree with me, but just a point to keep in mind that if wewant to solve the problems our profession is facing today then we have to beunited first; but all I see is we are divided right now.

My post is mostly about retail not hospital. Hospital we have different problemsand I am not stating them in this post; at least it is not as labor intensive asretail.
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I remember one time I didn't eat or use the restroom during a 12-hr shift at a 24 hr cvs. It was so busy there I didn't have time to think about those things. I didn't realize until it was time to leave, and I wasn't going to do that ever again. When I was working 8 hour shifts at CVS I brought a snack. I much rather not to have a meal at work, it's such a stressful place, the food wouldn't go down right. I only have a snack now even when I have half an hour lunch.
 
neopharma said:
The original poster has a really good point about uniting as a profession, though. In my experiences during and after pharmacy school, I've seen a huge rift between hospital and community pharmacists. I know you all have, too; it's definitely nothing new. I would love to see us band together so if we did want to accomplish something - better working conditions, figuring out what to do with the surplus, or expanding "pharmacist territory", whatever - we could.
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I have worked in hospital more than retail.You are right about the rift.
 
clachan3 said:
I remember one time I didn't eat or use the restroom during a 12-hr shift at a 24 hr cvs. It was so busy there I didn't have time to think about those things. I didn't realize until it was time to leave, and I wasn't going to do that ever again. When I was working 8 hour shifts at CVS I brought a snack. I much rather not to have a meal at work, it's such a stressful place, the food wouldn't go down right. I only have a snack now even when I have half an hour lunch.
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That is exactly my story. It happens on a daily basis. Although, one day Iwill get myself out of this hell but my point is what about our profession?What about others who are stuck in this hell? What about those who will enterthis hell in future?

How can we let them do this to our profession? Are we ever going to dosomething about it?


 
Our profession has turned into dispensing prescriptions, and generating the highest volume possible. There isn't much more to say. If you won't do it, there are dozens out there that will. My advice to you is to look for another work environment. I certainly emphatize with your position because I don't like it either, and I am looking for ways out. Until then, I put in my 8 hours and enjoy the rest of the day.
 
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clachan3 said:
I remember one time I didn't eat or use the restroom during a 12-hr shift at a 24 hr cvs. It was so busy there I didn't have time to think about those things. I didn't realize until it was time to leave, and I wasn't going to do that ever again. When I was working 8 hour shifts at CVS I brought a snack. I much rather not to have a meal at work, it's such a stressful place, the food wouldn't go down right. I only have a snack now even when I have half an hour lunch.
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This is what schools never teach, ha. If they gave away the REAL working conditions, no one would go into pharmacy. But kudos to the real students who adore the clinical side and are pushing that forward. However, if only the "just going to pharmacy school to become retail pharmacists" (90% of them) realize this notion.
 
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