I work for Walmart and I'm at a slow store (<1400 rx/week). In the near future they're going to reduce our store's pharmacy operating hours so we'll be closing two hours earlier each night, but our pharmacist hours are increasing to 240 per week so some days we'll have three pharmacists. I'll take the hours so I'm not complaining, but I don't get it. That seems so excessive. We keep getting emails about "big changes" but what big changes could possibly need that much overlap? Also, what are they going to do for the stores in our market that do 3500+ have 4 or 5 pharmacists each day? Any ideas on why this sudden increase in pharmacist hours?
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Don't mess up a good thing. I can understand complaining when there is too little help, but complaining about too much help is crazy.
You have WAAAAAAAY too many RPH hours. There should never be 3 pharmacists at slow pharmacies. Standard for a middle-of-the-pack store (~2000 sold a week) should be ~100-110 RPH hours based on Workplace S3G.
Pharmacies whose hours are being cut on the weekends do like 1200/week or less
How do 3500+ stores even have 4 pharmacists? Where are you going to stand?
Pharmacies whose hours are being cut on the weekends do like 1200/week or less
How do 3500+ stores even have 4 pharmacists? Where are you going to stand?
Make pharmacists start cleaning the bathrooms?
Maybe walk around the isles offering unasked for personal health advice to strangers?
Maybe they are planning to expand into the void left by Dr. M's sudden departure from pharmacy?
I mean hey I've got so much time now I can yap and milk
Where can I sign up?! haha
If it's excessive, it probably won't last long. Enjoy it while you have it.
I looked at the email again and that's what it said but maybe they meant 240 per pay period so 120 per week? Or like you said maybe it's 140 per week? That's still a lot of hours for a slow store and probably more than we need, but they increased my base hours to 40/week so I won't have to float for full time hours anymore... works for me.
