Setting a limit on how many hours a pharmacist can work per week

[Trent Steele]

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[rxlea]

You seem to know a lot about soma

 

[owlegrad]

It's a CII in FL ya'know.

 

[Dr Wario]

You seem to know a lot about soma

A gramme is better than a damn.

 

[rxlea]

A gramme is better than a damn.

Hmmm. So should I take a stash with me on my way to my guaranteed 1 mil a year Alaska job?

 

[rph3664]

I think some people are mis-reading my post. The main reason why I want to limit pharmacist's hours is to create jobs.

I don't think it is fair that some pharmacists works 60-70 hours per week and other pharmacists can not find jobs. If you look at other professions (lawyer, business, engineer, teacher, scientists), they usually work one job (40 hours a week) unlike pharmacy, where some people work like 80 hours a week.

Don't tell me that people work 80 hours a week because they need the money (other than recent graduate) since pharmacists make way more money than most other professions.

Tell me how is it fair that one person work 60-80 hours a week and another person can not find a job since there is no "job opening". If all pharmacists work about 40 hours a week, there would be thousands of job opening.

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There are people who believe that if women didn't work, we would have no unemployment. People working multiple jobs is a personal and family thing, although I have personally seen work used as an excuse to avoid family responsibilities. Those who do this usually end up getting what they want, because the (usually) wife and kids pack up and leave one day, and then that person HAS to work multiple jobs to pay the massive amount of child support and alimony. This is supposedly based on income, not behavior during the marriage, but I disagree.

The people I know personally who do per diem work are mostly mothers with young children, people who have a disabled spouse (or a disabled child and a spouse whose full time job is caring for that child) and retirees. I've never met a pharmacist who worked 80 hours a week, although I'm sure it happens. Keep in mind that I have never practiced in a city with massively high living expenses.

 

[Ackj]

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There are people who believe that if women didn't work, we would have no unemployment.

I'll bite. How could that not be true? I'm not sure what percentage of the workforce is women, but I'd guess 40% or more. If 40% of the workforce suddenly up and quit, wouldn't there be openings everywhere? Personally, if 4/10 of my techs quit, I'd certainly be on the hunt to find new employees.

 

[Dr Wario]

I'll bite. How could that not be true? I'm not sure what percentage of the workforce is women, but I'd guess 40% or more. If 40% of the workforce suddenly up and quit, wouldn't there be openings everywhere? Personally, if 4/10 of my techs quit, I'd certainly be on the hunt to find new employees.

I am not that well versed in economic theory, however I'd surmise that with fewer people earning money their would be less demand for purchased products/services and hence, fewer jobs.

 

[xiphoid2010]

I'll bite. How could that not be true? I'm not sure what percentage of the workforce is women, but I'd guess 40% or more. If 40% of the workforce suddenly up and quit, wouldn't there be openings everywhere? Personally, if 4/10 of my techs quit, I'd certainly be on the hunt to find new employees.

If I recall correctly, women constitute 46% of workforce, meaning 92% of women work.

Thought experiment. If 46% of the workforce quit, productivity and income decrease proportionally. The need for healthcare remains largely unchanged (people still get sick, maybe even more so due to decrease living standard), but the ability/willingness to pay for it decrease by roughly 46%. Therefore, insurance/medicaid will slash the reimbursement rate for each healthcare service/product dramatically. The result is pharmacist pay will take a nose dive.

Sure you solved in the unemployment problem, but you just reduced the salary for all the pharmacists by maybe 46%. Is that kind of decrease worth it just to make it easier for the few % of unemployed pharmacists?

The job market should always be a competitive one. Competition weeds out the unfit, and promote the rise of the stronger worker. I would argue that some unemployment is a good thing for any profession. If every hack can land a job, then we are living in a communist economy, and we all know just how wonderfully effective that works.

 

[PharmGirl31]

If you are that concerned about your future than...

a) Get out of pharmacy and pursue another field you love that has better perceived job opportunities.

b) Do some research and find an area of pharmacy that is underutilized and work to make yourself indispensable in that area.

c) Network as much as possible while in school, because it's all about who you know...it really is, actually true.

d) Move to Alaska where you can make $1 Million a year without overtime.

Totally agree with (c)! It is really all about networking. Grades isn't everything.

 

[Ackj]

I would argue that some unemployment is a good thing for any profession. If every hack can land a job, then we are living in a communist economy, and we all know just how wonderfully effective that works.

Absolutely agree, however, I'm sure we all know at least a few pharmacists who are hacks, and SHOULD be unemployed, yet they are not.

3A4? We didn't have that sh** when I was in school, can't be that important.

 

[xiphoid2010]

Absolutely agree, however, I'm sure we all know at least a few pharmacists who are hacks, and SHOULD be unemployed, yet they are not.

3A4? We didn't have that sh** when I was in school, can't be that important.

Hence the proof that no economic system Operated by human will be truly efficient. But the us system is more or less a meritocracy, more so than can be said than most countries around the world.

Most of those hacks probably landed their jobs when pharmacists were still short, and now its more expensive/risky to fire them. Times are changing however, as newly graduated hacks are more likely to be brushed aside.

 

[xtsukiyox]

d) Move to Alaska where you can make $1 Million a year without overtime.

See, I read this section & heard "they don't have to pay you overtime until you make $1 million," not "move to Alaska & make a million buckaroos."

 

[PharmaTope]

there should be laws about how many hours a pharmacist works STRAIGHT without overtime pay.

I.e. working 14 hour shifts with no overtime is bull. now, if they passed a law like california mandating a lunch and overtime pay for hours over 40 hours and over 8 hour days, you would be set!