I got a retail recruitment letter in the mail. Did I wake up and it's 2007 again?

[WVUPharm2007]

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Members don't see this ad.

I haven't gotten one of these in a decade. Wow. What a throwback to the good old days.

I mean, kind of, anyway.

Back in the real good old days the places listed above went something along the lines of "Come explore the fastest growing city in Tennessee, Nashville!" or "Imagine living minutes away from the beaches of sunny San Diego!" And at the bottom it would say "Make an appointment with our recruiter to discuss our fantastic career opportunities over dinner at Ruth's Chris!" And you'd get these things all the time.

Now it's "Live in a town so small that you statistically will know the majority of your patients." And I doubt they'd even get you a value meal at Wendy's. But, hey, apparently there's somewhere they are still somehow desperate enough for pharmacists that they are sending out mailers to random pharmacists throughout the state. So there's that.

 

[Gombrich12]

Doesn't Walmart hire at 24 hours or 32 hours max a week now? Kroger and Walmart used to be the place to be in retail, times sure have changed.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

So if you're really desperate for a job and are a young, single male, I have a rough life plan for you.

Take the job in Coal Township. Buy this pimp ass, affordable log house 5 minutes from the Walmart. Instantly become a member of the 1% of town. You'll have a bevy of conservative, old fashioned stay-at-home, cook n' clean housewives to choose from. (What we on the coasts call gold diggers, but at least they give you fair value to homemaking services to compensate.) Max out 401k, Roth IRA, and HSA. Get the house paid off in a decade. Start investing in REITs until the passive income is enough to sit on your ass. Chill at your log cabin all day watching TV and playing video games. Retire a multimillionare. Take several tours of Europe or wherever.

That would be quite a nice, simple life.

 

[lord999]

So if you're really desperate for a job and are a young, single male, I have a rough life plan for you.

Take the job in Coal Township. Buy this pimp ass, affordable log house 5 minutes from the Walmart. Instantly become a member of the 1% of town. You'll have a bevy of conservative, old fashioned stay-at-home, cook n' clean housewives to choose from. (What we on the coasts call gold diggers, but at least they give you fair value to homemaking services to compensate.) Max out 401k, Roth IRA, and HSA. Get the house paid off in a decade. Start investing in REITs until the passive income is enough to sit on your ass. Chill at your log cabin all day watching TV and playing video games. Retire a multimillionare. Take several tours of Europe or wherever.

That would be quite a nice, simple life.

From experience, you need to add "Caucasian" to that. In the little old "Good Country Living" town that I grew up in before Arizona, we were convinced to move by the "white knights" living around town. Rural Appalachia and the South are usually no safe refuge for Americans not of the WASP heritage. I would love to have done exactly that myself otherwise (minus the church and the wife, housekeepers and other servants come very cheap there too without the emotional entanglements).

But with that qualification, absolutely, and while your children grow up a bit more religious than the current fashion (good or bad depending on your own tastes), it's less likely that they'll get into trouble that you can't bail them out of (small towns and favors work in your favor too).

Don't know my geography that well in PA, but isn't that town relatively close to Centralia, the site of the eternal coal fire? I remember getting a report from Geisinger about the cancer rates in the area being fairly outrageous due to it.

 

[confettiflyer]

I get these every few months


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[Pharmacy Kid]

From experience, you need to add "Caucasian" to that. In the little old "Good Country Living" town that I grew up in before Arizona, we were convinced to move by the "white knights" living around town. Rural Appalachia and the South are usually no safe refuge for Americans not of the WASP heritage. I would love to have done exactly that myself otherwise (minus the church and the wife, housekeepers and other servants come very cheap there too without the emotional entanglements).

But with that qualification, absolutely, and while your children grow up a bit more religious than the current fashion (good or bad depending on your own tastes), it's less likely that they'll get into trouble that you can't bail them out of (small towns and favors work in your favor too).

Don't know my geography that well in PA, but isn't that town relatively close to Centralia, the site of the eternal coal fire? I remember getting a report from Geisinger about the cancer rates in the area being fairly outrageous due to it.

Yea, I doubt they date minorities.

 

[BidingMyTime]

I went several years without any mass mailers, then over the past couple of years I've been getting a chain one every 6 months or so. I haven't seen a hospital one since before 2010. Nothing like the glory days of getting one from every retailer and half of the hospitals in the state at least once a week.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

Now if they sent me a mailer for Sam's Club, I'd actually consider it.

 

[Unchained]

Now if they sent me a mailer for Sam's Club, I'd actually consider it.

I applied at Sam's club several months ago. They had 40 applications and I was one of only 3 to be interviewed. Got an email from the DM several weeks later saying they had to open the position to losers from the Walmart side. That is so Walmart.

 

[PA_dud3]

So if you're really desperate for a job and are a young, single male, I have a rough life plan for you.

Take the job in Coal Township. Buy this pimp ass, affordable log house 5 minutes from the Walmart. Instantly become a member of the 1% of town. You'll have a bevy of conservative, old fashioned stay-at-home, cook n' clean housewives to choose from. (What we on the coasts call gold diggers, but at least they give you fair value to homemaking services to compensate.) Max out 401k, Roth IRA, and HSA. Get the house paid off in a decade. Start investing in REITs until the passive income is enough to sit on your ass. Chill at your log cabin all day watching TV and playing video games. Retire a multimillionare. Take several tours of Europe or wherever.

That would be quite a nice, simple life.

Dear God that sounds amazing

 

[Sine Cura]

Wm probsbly sends these out if they have no internal interest, based on the ones I've seen. And for some reason they harvest ca bop licensee address info to do a mass mailing

 

[spacecowgirl]

I get these monthly. Which is funny since they are downsizing.

 

[sozetone]

I haven't gotten one of these in a decade. Wow. What a throwback to the good old days.

I mean, kind of, anyway.

Back in the real good old days the places listed above went something along the lines of "Come explore the fastest growing city in Tennessee, Nashville!" or "Imagine living minutes away from the beaches of sunny San Diego!" And at the bottom it would say "Make an appointment with our recruiter to discuss our fantastic career opportunities over dinner at Ruth's Chris!" And you'd get these things all the time.

Now it's "Live in a town so small that you statistically will know the majority of your patients." And I doubt they'd even get you a value meal at Wendy's. But, hey, apparently there's somewhere they are still somehow desperate enough for pharmacists that they are sending out mailers to random pharmacists throughout the state. So there's that.

I'm a walmart pharmacy manager, I would bet a years salary those jobs are gone already by the time that thing hit your mailbox. IF they ever existed....Yeah my staffs are all being cut and replaced with new grads, lower pay. Staff positions are mostly 65, 56, 48, 42, even down to 28 hours! in little rural towns like that too! lol. Jobs are ALWAYS posted first to internals, the few interns we have ya know? snapped right up every time. throw it away.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

I'm a walmart pharmacy manager, I would bet a years salary those jobs are gone already by the time that thing hit your mailbox. IF they ever existed....Yeah my staffs are all being cut and replaced with new grads, lower pay. Staff positions are mostly 65, 56, 48, 42, even down to 28 hours! in little rural towns like that too! lol. Jobs are ALWAYS posted first to internals, the few interns we have ya know? snapped right up every time. throw it away.

It's already in the recycling and taken away at this point...I'm not moving to BFE when I live in the burbs of a major city.

 

[mentos]

I'm a walmart pharmacy manager, I would bet a years salary those jobs are gone already by the time that thing hit your mailbox. IF they ever existed....Yeah my staffs are all being cut and replaced with new grads, lower pay. Staff positions are mostly 65, 56, 48, 42, even down to 28 hours! in little rural towns like that too! lol. Jobs are ALWAYS posted first to internals, the few interns we have ya know? snapped right up every time. throw it away.

Exactly, they're just collecting people's information. This is like when a pharmacist job is posted for Costco in indeed, lol like an external has any chance at all.

 

[CetiAlphaFive]

[QUOTE="lord999, post: 20297762, member: 10549").]

Don't know my geography that well in PA, but isn't that town relatively close to Centralia, the site of the eternal coal fire? I remember getting a report from Geisinger about the cancer rates in the area being fairly outrageous due to it.[/QUOTE]

 

[CetiAlphaFive]

It's all a good idea until the zpooky monsters show up

 

[WVUPharm2007]

Exactly, they're just collecting people's information. This is like when a pharmacist job is posted for Costco in indeed, lol like an external has any chance at all.

But...they already have my information. They mailed it to me.