PHARMACIST STEVE

This showed up in my email… I’m going to put on my MBA beanie – you know the one with the propeller on top of it ! Need to figure out how to cut expenses for 2013 somehow. This is all speculation… no basis in fact… any relation to actual facts or reality is purely […]

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  http://www.ocala.com/article/20121211/ARTICLES/121219933/-1/entertainment02?p=1&tc=pg Fla. pharmacy board wants drug compounders to get permits From the article… While the Board of Pharmacy works on creating a permitting process for compounders, a key state health official admitted Tuesday that health inspectors may not be up to the task of inspecting compounders to ensure the medicines they are making are […]

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That we would be able to find out what is in Obamacare ( Affordable Care Act) once they passed it…. we could read it… Well.. the latest “surprise nugget” has just surfaced from this law… http://www.theblaze.com/stories/the-63-obamacare-cost-you-probably-didnt-know-about/ In order to protect the profits of the insurance companies  now that they can no longer “cherry pick” those […]

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This is a bit off-topic but… Even Santa Can’t Find a Job http://www.smartmoney.com/plan/careers/even-santa-cant-find-a-job-1354919599976/?link=SM_hp_featStory So you think that a RPH surplus is troublesome… from the article… “There’s no question about it, the number of Santas out there looking for work has grown,” says Jennifer Andrews, headmaster of the Santa School in Calgary, Alberta, which supplies Santas […]

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This showed up in another email… this was obviously from the second largest chain store…  You can’t make this stuff up… I love the statement…” Our improved efficiency in WeCare will certainly provide us with a much leaner workflow model, to better focus on SERVICE ! I may be wrong.. but.. is what could be […]

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  I got this attached to a email…  I am not sure what store it is from.. but.. it appears to be a CARDINAL invoice in the background.. Given the source of this email.. I would suspect that this was from one of the major chains.. perhaps the one in second place? Aren’t these sharp […]

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        https://www.facebook.com/workplacebullyingcoalition   If you “Google”  workplace bullying… you get a lot of good information about how to deal with it. It would seem that it doesn’t take all that much to cross the line

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This is a story that was relayed to me from a institutional RPH… It would seem that this particular Rx dept has a PIC who had some poor management techniques.. One day, a tech did something (reportedly rather minor ) that the PIC was not happy with and called the tech into the PIC’s office […]

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http://langleytoday.ca/?p=23255 Here is a article that dealing with bullying in the work place from the article: Remember, it is not just the character of the incidents, but the number, frequency, and especially the pattern that can reveal the bullying or harassment. • KEEP copies of any letters, memos, e-mails, faxes, etc., received from the person. […]

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When I was a kid… we would – as a family –   occasionally  go out to eat.. In regards to tipping the wait staff.. I can remember my Dad telling me that if the service was really bad that you should leave a PENNY tip… because the service was not worth TWO CENTS.. To the […]

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