Working mail order..

[MoXiEguRl]

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So here is the deal.. Before i moved to Phx i decided to check into mail order companies, being that i heard they had great oppertunities for students.

I highly suggest doing this while attending pre-pharmacy classes, but that is about it.. Simply because it is the only place you can work 30hrs per week, decent pay, full benefits, tutition reinburstment, +stock options and 401K.

Sounds excellent right? sorta.. coming from retail i thought "ohh heck yah no more BS from insurance companies and customers!" Wrong... you sit in a cubical the whole time.. typing away. Leaving your desk becomes a death wish, because supervisors are constantly on you for getting up.

I've put up with this for 3 years and have come to realize that Yeh it is a great job, that is when you're attending school.. getting your school paid for and getting an income that is paying your bills without having to work 40+hrs per week.

But i've also realized that i will NEVER work here again. *on hands and knees praying to god, that i get into school this year.. * I do not feel the body was anatomically made to sit in a chair for 8hrs a day. Not talking to anyone, getting bad eye sight from the staring at the computer screen and becoming half deaf from listening to your headset all day.

Okay i'm done with my rant.. point being made.. use it, and get on with your bad self!



so... what do you all think about mail order?

 

[HABANERO4ME]

Atleast its better than traveling around the nation with suitcases( cloth, computer gears and manual) and get to your next assignment via blackberry. The foods suck, the places suck.. and definately the stress of fixing other people downed network (because some idiot decided to run a program or do something cause the network to be corrupted).. I cant want to give my boss the big resignation letter come July.. hehehehe.. Pharm school here I come..

 

[ultracet]

mail order is the devil

 

[dgroulx]

I toured Walgreens facility in Orlando. The pharmacists rotate areas every week. You have four different areas. One is verifying entered scripts in a cubicle, like you mentioned. When you are verifying fills, you are out on a factory floor wearing an iPod and listening to music while you check the robot's work. The next section is sitting in a cubicle where you call doctor's offices for verification. The final section is also in a cubicle where you answer patient phone calls and counsel them. I didn't think it looked that bad, because the rotating changed your routine from week to week.

 

[MoXiEguRl]

I toured Walgreens facility in Orlando. The pharmacists rotate areas every week. You have four different areas. One is verifying entered scripts in a cubicle, like you mentioned. When you are verifying fills, you are out on a factory floor wearing an iPod and listening to music while you check the robot's work. The next section is sitting in a cubicle where you call doctor's offices for verification. The final section is also in a cubicle where you answer patient phone calls and counsel them. I didn't think it looked that bad, because the rotating changed your routine from week to week.

Where i work the pharmacists do not rotate they are either in verification sitting down or else they're checking the opti-fill machines.. which i believe is the only standing position. The pharmacists get a little more exercise than the rest of us.. but they're still watched like hawks.

 

[MoXiEguRl]

mail order is the devil

I agree with you... My family owns their own pharmacies and just trying to make a dollar right now is hard. Mail order has cut their business from 4 yrs ago filling close to 500-600 scripts a day to maybe 250 on a good day. Sad.. but they're still pushing through those insurance companies, the best they can.

 

[tsubasa]

It is really depends on people. Some people like it, and some people hate it. There are so many different things you can do in the mail order pharmacy. It's good ..now you know you don't want to work for mail-order... I don't mind it.. it is a job.