Currently in a dispute with my district manager (who is a licensed pharmacist) at a chain because they called me in the middle of my shift and told me I wasn’t filling scripts fast enough. I responded by stating that I was doing my best, that I felt this was inappropriate behavior from one licensed pharmacist with managerial authority over another, hung up the phone, blocked their phone number, and continued my shift. Thoughts?
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to me – as a licensed pharmacists – that anytime that I see something like this from a chain pharmacist – and I know that it happens more times that it gets divulged anywhere – but – such incidents are seeing the light of day, than ever before. Every time that I see similar statements from pharmacists, this video comes to mind
I have been around long enough that I saw the movie BEN HUR – when it was FIRST RUN.
I wish I could share all the comments from other pharmacists on this web posting… out of the 17 comments ONLY ONE thought that the pharmacist was I don’t think it was justified for you to hang up on them. Keep in mind that the DM called the pharmacist on their PERSONAL CELL PHONE. I have heard of pharmacists – under such situations – have locked the pharmacy down and walked out. How many of you have found the chain pharmacy, that you typically patronize, to have the Rx dept closed – at hours it is suppose to be open ?
But the next graduation class of some 14,000+ freshly minted PharmD’s in the next couple of months… many with six figure student loans that will have loan payments starting in 6-9 months and with all the pharmacists that have walked off recently – some of the chains are dangling up to a $50,000 sign on bonus for signing a three year work contract – what they don’t know – that has been shared by other Pharmacists that have signed those work contracts have stated… if the pharmacist leaves even one day BEFORE THE CONTRACT IS FULFILLED – the entire sign on bonus will have to be REPAID IN FULL.
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Corporate wants everything from all employees without giving back moral integrity, humane treatment, reasonable working conditions for a human being rather than an automatron and in many venues “you are maxed out!” because “I” said so with zero narrative justification. You want us to work as a team when upper management is the “Master’ of her or his serf domain. This environment will ultimately come to an inflection point. And yes, Corporate can continue to try and downsize with software updates and more mechanical mechanization. Then can use this “crisis” to push Boards of Pharmacy to initiate licensure for tech-check-tech to replace most pharmacists. You don’t think they will continue to persecute these certified technicians that take over pharmacist’s roles. Then they will have them leaving the venue just like pharmacists did years before. Corporate deserves mediocrity quality and lower because of how they treat their associates. Yes, Wall of Green, Rite Aid and CVS!!! I’m mainly taking about you and your theft of priceless human time.
Well said, corporate metrics for productivity were not formulated by a practicing pharmacist.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they installed charging stations for the mobile robots who will be taking our jobs.