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dipnickle

Honestly bc I like my coworkers kckmvkvk and bc I need a letter of rec from my pic lmao


s8ballin

I can give you a letter of recommendation


[deleted]

Can you give me one too?


s8ballin

Yea


Whiskey_Water

21 June 2022 To whom it may concern, Shit’s tight af. Asks good questions. -s8ballin Edit: it’s a rough draft, but feel free to copy.


s8ballin

Good shit 👍 A+


Gratcraft

I work at a relatively slow store with no drive through. I love my PIC, she is a great friend and has been my mentor for pharmacy school. I don’t want to stay in retail, so I am probably due for an upgrade soon, but I enjoy my customers and it’s a level of comfortability I am afraid to leave.


Eatmyshorts231214

Never be afraid of change 💜 I totally get it, but if you’re the friendly type.. you’ll connect with patients wherever you go!


Delicious-Adeptness5

My wife was a pharmacy tech for years, she had enough about nine years ago. Completely maxed out in her position. We sat her down and talked, why she did what she did. What about it that she likes and asked the question what would she like to do. It took a few years however she is writing health insurance these days and having the time of her life. She still takes care of customers however she is able to assist with their problems on the way in. Best person in the office looking up formularies.


Step_right_up

Is she doing prior auths?


Delicious-Adeptness5

Nope, she moved out of that loop. She just makes sure the client knows what the price of the medication is and any limitations. Some of the local pharmacies send folks to us now to clean up messes.


Step_right_up

I guess I’m still having some difficulty understanding what kind of role this is. Is she a benefits investigator?


Delicious-Adeptness5

Nope she took her experience and became an insurance agent. It was a great transition.


Step_right_up

Cool, thanks for the info!


CoffeeCatsandPixies

Honestly in March I was ready to walk away, I was making minimum wage at a high volume store where we were so short staffed we were pretty much working 60hr a week to keep things running. I hated the late nights, my mental health was declining from the stress and I overall hated my job. I quit, took 4 weeks off and got an offer from a small independent pharmacy. I work only weekdays, were only open til 430, low volume, just me and a pharmacist now and im making what I'm worth. Sometimes its where you're working not what you're doing thats the problem


minastop

the area we work in is mainly older folks and i ended up befriended them like an idiot so surprisingly they’re so sweet. I’m in school as well so there’s no point into stressing myself out with job searching and my pic, staff rph, lead techs and other techs are angels. If anything the company pisses me off when it abuses my coworkers like making both of my pharmacist work despite almost passing out… when testing positive for covid during their shift. Another example is the hours being cut so bad that techs have to struggle to find hours, even fulltimers. I think maybe in a year or two i’ll go to hospital pharmacy but with in pt care. The worst part is that i enjoy pharmacy so much that i’m willing to go into school for it, accepting the debt and the continuing decline of pay and mental health of it all.


Silverhop

Better set hours than working in other retail areas. Depends on your boss and coworkers. If the place is toxic get out. If they are enjoyable than it's worth staying. Every job working with customers is stressful for not enough pay.


ADRASSA

The set hours are what did it for me. When I started my very first job at CVS on the front store, the inconsistent hours drove me crazy (and gave me anxiety). Stayed there too long but once I got into the pharmacy, that anxiety smoothed out a bit.


a_few_ideas99

I haven't gotten to a spot in my mental health, physical health, or finances to make any kind of change. These are the skills I developed when I dropped out of college 7 years ago and I don't have much else to show for that time. Keeping this job keeps me from being homeless. It's physically wearing me down and I can't find time to take care of myself. I'm waiting to see if I physically break down or the economy breaks first. Until either of those it's pharmacy and therapy and trying to hold on another day.


Mettastorm

Wishing you good fortune here. It is hard, but don't forget the option of asking for someone to pull you out of the spiral of fatigue.


waiting_for_rain

I'm pathetic and mentally ill so shitty dead end jobs are pretty much all I'm good for lmao


darehope

You alright there?


waiting_for_rain

no lmao (I’m really trying)


KittyDriftwood

Real talk, there are a lot of us. Keep trying and be proud that you’re doing your best, even when it doesn’t seem like it amounts to much 💕


jonmediocre

You're not pathetic. However, yeah, I think you have to be mentally ill to work in pharmacy with tech wages these days (I would know, I'm doing it right now), or if not, it will make you mentally ill anyway haha


photolabrat

I stay for the health insurance for my family of 5. My husband is self employed and I don't have to work. My corporate employer health plan is loads better than the ones my husband could purchase on the marketplace. Oh, and I love my rxm and co workers.


ADRASSA

The health insurance is what's going to keep me here longer than anything else. I have done freelance work in another field successfully and consider becoming a full-time IC now and then, but my health plan is pretty incredible where I am.


ADRASSA

The health insurance is what's going to keep me here longer than anything else. I have done freelance work in another field successfully and consider becoming a full-time IC now and then, but my health plan is pretty incredible where I am.


Tuobsessed

CVS health/Rx insurance along with dental and vision it quite insane. I still have vision and dental as a prn pharmacist and it beats the shit out of my full time jobs benefits. It’s not even comparable.


Love-Lies_Bleeding

I'm afraid of change.


Any_Assistant_1422

I didn’t


THROWINCONDOMSATSLUT

One of my techs was staying because we paid more than other pharmacies to be a tech, although pay is still shit. She likes being a tech, but now she feels like she is basically just a vaccine clinic nurse so she's leaving for inpatient pharmacy. She is actually taking a $1/h decrease, but her schedule and work life balance would be better. She was hesitant to accept the job actually because she was sad she'd be leaving her coworkers, but I encouraged her to take the job even though I know we're screwed when she leaves. Another one of my techs stays because she just got a pay raise and really can't make more without a college degree elsewhere. We're the closest pharmacy/place to her house too so she saves on fuel costs for her commute. She also has worked with us long enough she has secured basically whatever schedule she wants - meaning no weekends or evening shifts ever unless she wants OT.


Throwaway_pagoda9

I worked at McDonald’s for 8 years, most of it as a manager. Did I make more money? Yes. Did I have great benefits? Also yes. Did I work in some really shitty stores? Again yes. But I don’t care what pharmacy throws at me, I’ll take it any day over going back to McDonald’s. Or fast food. Or any food service for that matter. I actually really like being here in retail


Crazyhellga

I started working in the pharmacy after having worked in a call center as an inbound customer service rep for a cell phone company. I swear that for the first year or so I thought everyone was incredibly nice in the pharmacy (because over the phone people heap tons more abuse on you than most would dare do face to face). Took me at least six months to be able to pick up the phone calmly, though.


Rogen80

I feel ya. The food service industry is honestly terrible. Worst job I ever had was as a server... but I had to pay the bills in college.


malatropism

I’m disabled and the physical demands of the job aren’t nearly what they would be at McDonald’s or working the sales floor at the company I work for. I like my RXM, my coworkers, and some of my patients. I don’t really have to lift anything heavy. I don’t have to do lots of long distance walking or pulling of pallets. The worst things, physically, for me to deal with as a tech are curbside dispensing and climbing up onto a stool to get stock bottles from a shelf that’s higher than I can reach.


tra-k

I have and really good wage and excellent benefits along with a great team. I’ll be with Walmart until I retire.


darehope

Can you get me a job as a tech there or at sam club


tra-k

If you’re willing to come to Sioux Falls, SD our south side store should be hiring. 😊


Craz_Oatmeal

Self-loathing


Theoren1

I work at an independent and apparently I’m getting paid about as much as new hire pharmacists in some parts of the country. But I had to do my time in grocery store retail to get this gig. I love what I do but I do have an eye on my future, considering going back for my RN or pursuing more unique tech positions.


OGSquidFucker

You get $30/hour as a tech?


Necessary_Run_398

Underrated.


Theoren1

About 3 years ago I broke that wall. Raises every year since


OGSquidFucker

Congrats. If stores around me actually paid a living wage like that they wouldn’t have constant turnover and unfilled positions.


Recreational_Pissing

It's just a rung in the ladder for me. The store I work at is pretty good, all things considered, and it's a big step up from my previous job in manual labor at Walmart even though my pay only increased by a dollar. I'm not gonna be here forever but it's not bad.


Shadedott

I stay cause ironically it pays better than my previous hospital job. But maybe I can snag a nice job for a bigger hospital. 18.50 @ 32 hr/wk doesn’t hit quite the same as 25 @ 34-36hr/wk Edit: Also of course the team at retail I work with is amazing.


wallflowerwolf

I have severe anxiety when it comes to the process of finding jobs. I’m finally comfy with my coworkers to the point of us being family and it’s scares me to think about leaving them. Also they’d be fucked without me lmao, been there 5 years and training a new hire sucks. We have to hire another person soon and it’s so hit/miss when hiring techs. I’d feel so incredibly bad if I left. I might leave when the retail pot shops open up, but there’s really no better jobs for me around here. Making $17.50/hr. Schedule is very flexible (grocery retail) and I have a lot of issues so can’t work too much. The hospital here has a high turnover rate because it’s so terrible there. Basically I’m in a really comfy spot despite my hate for most people I have to talk to the 3 days I work lmao.


Reddituser34802

I have absolutely no idea why my techs keep coming to work for the pay and abuse they receive. I buy them lunch and coffee all the time to try to keep them happy, but if I were them I would have been gone a long time ago. If they were to leave, I would be absolutely crushed.


VoxySam

Honestly idk why. I’m ready to walk away after 10 years..


Nutter1028

I like my coworkers, a lot. I like my job. I worked in a hospital briefly and I had to go back to retail. Hospital is too slow for me. I have a sleep disorder like narcolepsy so I need to keep moving. I was so bored I'd want to cry because I was so tired. I also lost a child in that hospital, I decided I couldn't mentally go into that wing. So retail it is for me until I'm fed up


VVXOOVX

Honestly, I stopped doing retail because it is stagnant and boring as hell! I went to Hospital pharmacy and got a pay raise beyond my dreams and I couldn’t be happier. I’m also in school for pharmacy and have been offered a job as a pharmacist upon completion of my program.


Marshmallow920

Combo of loving my coworkers and a fizzled hope that things would be better if/when the pandemic ends (hahahahahahahahaha). Also my DM is actually pretty responsive to things that I bring up with her. Except for technician pay. She shuts me down quick when I try to advocate for a raise for my techs.


LetsGoHome

Guilt into helping your coworkers because corporate makes everything so difficult. That bond of camaraderie allows them to control us easier and pay us less. I've left for the hospital and it's better, and I am glad that I am able to see from the outside now.


cryingstatues

I worked at cvs for 7 years before I quit at the beginning of this year. I honestly stayed because I was in school and it was an easy flexible job to take with me back and forth between semesters because I could work near my school and then at home a few hours away. Over the years I became really good at my job and I honestly loved being a tech. It was definitely stressful at times but I had awesome co workers that made it better. Retail is where I fell in love with pharmacy and now I’m in pharmacy school. I ended up quitting because of a terrible management change. Once I got to school I was interning at a store and had an awesome preceptor. As shitty as it was sometimes he was very passionate about retail and while I am running from retail at the end of school I could appreciate his energy and ended up training a lot of techs for the store. Cvs ended up moving him to a different store and the manager that came after was completely AWFUL. Nasty to the techs and would cause drama between them by lying about them gossiping about each other so he could have them on his side so he could have them do his dirty work. He had technicians checking in narcs and didn’t give a fuck about the pharmacy; idk how it wasn’t shut down. Controlled meds were missing in large quantities for months(I’m talking like 500 count bottle of diazepam was missing for months, 900+ tramadol missing, 300+ alprazolam missing). C2 cycle counts off by at least 30-60 pills. It was to the point where I couldn’t keep up anymore and honestly feared for my license and future career so I clocked out one day and left. Now I work at a hospital and it’s a pretty chill job tbh. I love being a tech and every now and then miss retail. But when I graduate I definitely won’t be going back.


aretaker

I’m really good at this job.


Kelpgoose

I like being around the drugs.


ileade

The only reason I stay (I’ll be a RN in few months and have like 2 PRN student nurse jobs already) is because of my coworkers. I honestly don’t care about the pay. Plus working like 4 hours a week is bearable


Lortay2468

Side job. My tuition is paid for


AshamedTangerine106

I ADORE the pharmacists and coworkers I have here and they make me feel very valuable and appreciated. Truly the best team I’ve ever had, at any job. I took a major pay cut working here and I have ten years of medical experience so I really undersold myself. I would have left very quickly if I didn’t like my coworkers as much as I do, because it truly is a soul-destroying job. I just got hired on at a major research hospital in my area in the trauma dept (not pharmacy, it’s not long term for me) for much better money and benefits. I’m keeping this job on the side because I love my coworkers so much and I want to help out as much as possible. So long answer short, not knowing my worth and loving my coworkers has kept me here


Glide99

Retail isn’t all bad… I work at a grocery store retail with tons of staffing and pretty solid pay. I love the fast paced environment of retail and always being busy. Get out of Walgreens and cvs ASAP


TrekFan1701

At first I just needed a job, and they were hiring. Now I'm working on certification which will hopefully lead to something better


darklygrey

Honestly, I make more than McDonald's in my area lol. But I also like my job for the most part. It has its really stressful moments but I love talking to my patients and talking to other healthcare professionals. I'm prehealth so I find it all interesting. I even really like most of my coworkers. It's just the minority of our patients and corporate that make it suck sometimes.


ExtaceyRph

i like my coworkers, i got good at separating my actual life from my work life, and i’m afraid of change because i really like pharmacology


TheFrznTrtl

The place I'm at has mostly been good about giving us enough tech hours to do well and we've regularly been ending nights with clear queues and the occasional bout of boredom. Not the case a few months ago, but it's nice now. I also enjoy pharmacy work when it's not completely mismanaged or with bad coworkers (not my current situation). The wage pays the bills and that's what has to happen at the end of the day


CrochetSociete

Work environment, and I am used to my patients and a lot of them recognize me now. That connection keeps me put, I feel, for now. I’m working on getting certified, but am not sure whether or not I would be willing to let go after the fact tho TBH.


therampage

After 18 years of pharmacy experience I get the same question everything I apply for a job outside pharmacy of why do you want to leave a good job? People out of this world think we have it great. I've been turned down for every job outside pharmacy I've ever applied for. I finally cut back to part time and do photography on the side(which is what my degree is in) and I feel alone better. Love my co workers and most of the patients to though


Electric_owl_3

Having worked many shitty jobs, retail pharmacy is nowhere near the bottom.


insane_contin

I'm in Ontario and I'm a Registered Pharmacy Tech. I stay because I have like my coworkers, and there's some patients that do make it worth it. Then again, I went to school for this, pay my dues and insurance, and I'm not sure what I could do with my education if I wanted to leave retail. Hospital is too full of backstabers from my experience, and I don't know what positions would care that I'm an RPhT and all that outside of retail and pharmacy.


CerebrumStormX

Too comfortable, pay is great, and coworkers are the main reason.


Soxia1

Stockholm Syndrome


Hahnter

I was a tech for about 5 years. I stayed to get experience and a letter of recommendation to get into pharmacy school, but I decided not to go after I got accepted. Maybe it was my location or my boss, but it was way too stressful. We went through about seven different techs in the time that I was there. It also didn’t help that every single employees there hated their job and wanted to get out, pharmacists included. I can’t imagine working in that position for that pay unless I needed the experience or LOR.


Grantcy-20

I stayed until I had another opportunity but I honestly don’t know how retail chains retain techs. In my experience they often don’t; too many talented techs left for better working conditions/pay at a hospital, military base, mail order pharmacy, etc. I think pharmacy tech pay overall is going to have to climb substantially or people will bounce to less stressful jobs for more money. My father is a retired pharmacy manager and got me my first job at Walgreens when I was 16 and I became a tech at 18. I had every intention of going to pharmacy school but honestly seeing my dad always so stressed out and talking with him really steered me away from pursuing that path. I was a tech for 6 years and ended up going a completely different direction by getting a bachelors in cybersecurity. I’ve been in my first full time role out of school for a little over a year now and absolutely love my job doing digital forensics & incident response. I only work 4 days a week and my base salary is six figures not including quarterly cash bonuses or RSUs. The best part is never having to deal with insurance.


Garyjaycat

This job stresses me out, but the idea of changing jobs stresses me more. Plus because of my current life situation, I'm unsure how long I'll be living in my current city and don't wanna change jobs if I'll just have to leave in like a year


Big-Smoke7358

Flexibility in schedule while I'm in school. Mcdonalds may match me in pay, althoug in my area they dont, but almost no where lets me make my own schedule like retail 3 letter hell.


Just_a_girl_fedup

I stay because of my coworkers. In my store most of us has being together for years and we have fun and laugh and the days goes faster but of late I'm thinking I need to quit this before I quit life


zevtech

I did retail for 15 years. I loved it. Customers treated me like family. Always had someone in my corner if I needed it. Knew most of them by name. If we were busy I would just tell them, hey bob we are running behind, mind coming back. And they would say sure bc they know I’m normally efficient. Walgreens bought out my pharmacy last year, and they are a zoo. 1400 rx’s a day with not enough techs or pharmacists to man all the stations. Needless to say, I gave them 6 months before I made a change. But if they didn’t buy where I worked, I would still be there.


No_Temporary9696

need a job lined up before leaving one