Finally got rewarded for working my butt off as a new grad floater!

[a student]

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I just got rewarded with a staff position at the busiest/most understaffed store in the district, despite a couple slow stores requesting me and me requesting them. The inexperienced/lazy new hires got the slow stores. Apparently this was the best way to "maintain balance".

From now on, my tip to new grads will be don't work too hard, it's not worth it!

 

[trailerpark]

Pharmacy rewards the slackers, not the hard workers.


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[CMUchicka]

If you are floater and if you don't work hard, they won't give you hours?

 

[Eichhoernchen]

I have noticed that too.. quickest, most efficient floaters get the busiest/messiest stores. Works the opposite with the slower pharmacists.

 

[steveysmith54]

sorry 🙁

Now that you are staff and have set hours focus on applying and finding a new gig

 

[owlegrad]

This isn't unique to pharmacy. The reward for hard work is always the opportunity to do more of the same.

 

[mentos]

Yep that's life. Take it as a lesson learned, young grasshopper. They place people wherever it makes sense to maximize profitability. If you're good, they'll make you manager. If you're a good manager, they'll send you to the crappiest store.

If you were in charge, you would do the same. Who would you schedule during the Monday/Friday rush, your best lead tech or the slacker tech?

 

[mentos]

Pharmacy rewards the slackers, not the hard workers.


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This is spot on. There are older pharmacists that are very slow and get little done, yet they get paid way more than new rphs due to seniority and all those standard raises across the board over the years. There's no incentive to work harder because everyone gets the same percentage raise. The lower-paid rphs have to clean up after them.

 

[Niosh]

This is one reason I really like where I work. A certain % of pay raises are based on personal performance. The rest being department and organizational performance. A slacker can (probably) get by, but won't get compensated the same as I would.