u/bradtice, where you at??

[farm4real]

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Members don't see this ad.

yep.....

APhA needs to step in and advocate for pharmacy workers NOW. u/bradtice, where you at??

if APhA doesn't do anything now, they never will.

u/bradtice, nows your chance.
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UNCwesRPh

32 points · 2 days ago

Remember that “pharmacist well being” survey that went out last year while we were all drowning? Never heard a thing about it from anyone that could do anything. Yeah, maybe another one of those will fix it, Brad?


level 1
daoj0nes

PharmD29 points · 1 day ago

We got leaders in Congress that don’t even acknowledge that pharmacists are medical personnel. APhA what is you doin baby...



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Teamocil_QD

4 points · 1 day ago

He clarified his statement. He said he didn't mean to say it that way, was just advocating for pharmacy workers to get the extra hazard pay that all retail workers deserve.


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3LetterDevil

12 points · 2 days ago

Remember when he would do a monthly guest blog on APhA? Even that stopped.


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omairville

30 points · 1 day ago

You must be new here.
Let me break down the way APhA works:

• Put out bull**** agendas on what initiatives they're going to push this year/quarter/month
• Ask for donations and membership dues to support said initiatives
• Ask for our input on said initiatives to make us feel like they actually care about us and the field
• Completely ignore all input received
• Put out public statements about whatever current event is going on and say 'Pharmacists can help by xyz' to make it look like they're actually advocating for us
• Tell their leadership (students/faculty, delegates, trustees, board members) on private phone calls and emails that they actually don't give a **** about community pharmacists and to avoid all interaction with us on social media to prevent the organization from being outed and looking bad (sorry u/bradtice )
• Make sure nothing ever actually gets done, initiatives all get left behind or 'put on the back-burner*' (*APhA president's exact words regarding Provider Status) while they come up with new bull**** to sell to students and the naive to keep up enrollment numbers
• Where did all the money go..? Someone should follow this paper trail, if there even is one.
• Host a couple yearly meetings patting each other on the back and congratulating each other on not getting anything significant done while jerking each other off in a circle
• Rinse and repeat

level 2
soupcansally

3 points · 1 day ago

American Pharmacists Association - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica




level 3
omairville

17 points · 1 day ago

Thanks for sharing this, I was bored so I decided to look into this.
This is taken directly from one of u/bradtice comments attacking someone who shed light on APhA's practices of not actually doing **** while it's board members sit there and pocket millions, 9 months ago:
' Our goal with the new membership models is to significantly increase membership. APhA’s PAC (Political Action Committee) is about $129,000. We’ve actually doubled this over the last few years. AMA’s and even the American Dental Association’s PACs are around a million dollars each. The average AMA donation is $56.85. I am donating $1,000 to the PAC this year and have several current APhA board members who have committed as well. None of us are millionaires or really in any better position than any other pharmacist to do this. I am asking pharmacists to donate $50. If we could get $1 million in the APhA PAC, we could get an entirely different level of access. ;
Not sure who he's talking about when he says 'none of us are millionaires or really in any better position than any other pharmacist to do this' because literally every single person in a position of power within this 'nonprofit' organization is a millionaire. When it comes to their CEO, Tom Menighan, he is bringing in a yearly salary of $750K+ from APhA alone.
APhA brings in anywhere from $34-39 million yearly in revenue, and has about the same number in liabilities, but ~$15 million of these liabilities is paid out in salaries/compensation to a total of 17 members in the organization. 9/17 make up the bulk of this $15 million. For the the record, Brad Tice is not one of these 9 people and looks like he's been getting shafted.
Screenshots from their taxes filed from 2016-2018
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2018:





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rxdawg21

10 points · 1 day ago

What a joke that half of the dues are going to salaries. Most frustrating part of a lot of nonprofits is the salaries





level 4
69SadBoi69

4 points · 1 day ago

Wow I had no idea how corrupt they were, holy ****. And I'm a very cynical person. I hope someone grills them publicly at their next meeting





level 4
Spooney2000

2 points · 1 day ago

Your attachments only show about 2.5 -3M in salaries to the executives. Where does the other 13 million in salary go?






level 5
omairville

2 points · 1 day ago

I didn't screenshot everyone getting paid in the organization, just the top earners. If you look through the forms they state near the beginning that one of their liabilities is compensation/salaries for employees and it's consistently around $14 million, but you're correct the numbers didn't all add up


level 1
Th3St1g

9 points · 1 day ago

If you think these ****ers are doing anything other than sitting at home with their email away messages on while retail pharmacists are begging for ppe



level 2
Dead_Bat_Bounce

4 points · 1 day ago

Ice cold


level 1
supasteve013

P2 c/o 2022 4 points · 1 day ago

Apha only looks out for themselves


level 1
UNCwesRPh

1 point · 5 hours ago

Is USPhA taken? I could make a lobbying board for half this.

 

[TateThePharmacist]

While I agree that APhA does jack $#!& for the profession and leeches off of its members; what in the living &#@% is going on with this post?? Seems like something that'll get ya banned man lol.

 

[Pharmacy is a Scam]

Pharmacists are just all talk and no action. Let's be real here, this isn't even an APhA thing. This is the failure of the "everyday pharmacist" to generate either real or perceived value to an employer. The failure of academia which is supposed to be the breeding ground for innovation to actually innovate. The failure of the "non-traditional" pharmacists to carve out legitimate new "pathways" for pharmacists to take and instead be assimilated into other systems. The failure of the community pharmacist to detach themselves from dispensing and hence generate the negative stereotypes about the profession (i.e. "glorified pill counter"). So stop scapegoating others because this is a system issue and the system is broken.

 

[Traziiramate09]

The tea going on in this post yikes. Looks like I should avoid APHa at all costs. Too bad because I was seriously considering signing up for their transitioning membership for sixth years

 

[mentos]

I remember being conned into a $40 membership my first year as a naive student. Biggest waste of money ever. I wish I bought scratch tickets instead, at least it would have entertained me for a few minutes.

 

[owlegrad]

I actually think the student rate is pretty reasonable and I seem to recall that it comes with a Naplex review book? If that’s the case I would go for it.

 

[mentos]

I actually think the student rate is pretty reasonable and I seem to recall that it comes with a Naplex review book? If that’s the case I would go for it.

I never got anything. Are you referring to Rxprep? That thing is like $200.

 

[owlegrad]

I never got anything. Are you referring to Rxprep? That thing is like $200.

I could easily be misremembering.

 

[WorthlessOxygen]

You're right, it does come with a review book, or did as of 2019 at least. The book wasn't very good though.

I could easily be misremembering.

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[JustFillIt]

I remember being conned into a $40 membership my first year as a naive student. Biggest waste of money ever. I wish I bought scratch tickets instead, at least it would have entertained me for a few minutes.

I remember this too... I remember even in my 4th year they made it seem like a post graduation membership was mandatory among pharmacists..


Of coarse I did not sign up for it. I had a real nasty habit of not really participating in anything at all outside of the essentials in pharmacy school. I have never held an apha membership. In fact I never even knew what mid year was until someone explained what it was in a thread a few months ago.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

I had a real healthy habit of not really participating in anything at all outside of the essentials in pharmacy school.

FTFY