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Why do grocery store pharmacists have an attitude?
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:23 pm
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:23 pm
I've noticed this consistently where pharmacies are located within grocery stores. It's like they all hate their jobs and want you to know that they're too good to stand behind a retail counter. Just so you don't mistake them for cashiers.
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Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:25 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Because
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grocery store pharmacists
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:26 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Retail pharmacists in general see about a jillion more customers than hospitalists. I think that's a certified stat.
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:27 pm to Stagg8
More reason to have a customer service mindset.
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:28 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Spend all that time in school just to tell people to eat before they take their pills
You would be angry too
You would be angry too
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:28 pm to siliconvalleytiger
They just hate the general public because 40% of them want narcotics
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:28 pm to Stagg8
Pour pills from a big bottle into a little bottle.
Now, do it 100 times a day.
Now, do it 100 times a day.
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:30 pm to siliconvalleytiger
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More reason to have a customer service mindset.
They don't have an ownership stake. They get paid regardless. It's easy to replace a surly 16 year old. A trained pharmacist, not so much.
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:32 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Answer the phone 50x a day for people asking if you have Norco or Oxycontin in stock and get into arguments with 20 other people wondering why you won't refill their Soma 15 days early and youll find out. frick I hate retail pharmacy
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:32 pm to siliconvalleytiger
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More reason to have a customer service mindset.
He's likely meaning that because of that, they are constantly dealing with people asking stupid questions or people getting impatient with them because the prescription they dropped off isn't filled in 5 minutes. If I was a pharmacist I think I would rather work in a hospital than a retail setting.
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:34 pm to lsunurse
I have worked both retail and hospital when I was a pharmacist. Retail just sucks. Things may have gotten better since hydrocodone went C2.
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:34 pm to OlGrandad
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Pour pills from a big bottle into a little bottle.
Now, do it 100 times a day.
for what they make all day every day
Be able to count to 100 and read drug interactions off a printout - not taxing for what they are paid.
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:34 pm to siliconvalleytiger
in general i've been told that the grocery store and walgreens pharmacists are the pharm graduates who were at the lower end of their graduating class.
the smart ones end up as clinical pharmacists in hopsitals and doing research.
the smart ones end up as clinical pharmacists in hopsitals and doing research.
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:35 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Sucks to be a poor
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:36 pm to runningTiger
Lol. Wrong. Retail pays more and there are more jobs.
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:36 pm to siliconvalleytiger
I really don't know how retail pharmacists do it. You have to be smart and go to pharmacy school only to get out and stand behind a counter all day. I know they make good money, but I would go insane!
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:37 pm to MSTiger33
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I have worked both retail and hospital when I was a pharmacist. Retail just sucks. Things may have gotten better since hydrocodone went C2.
Course in the hospital you gotta deal with us nurses calling and bitching when our meds aren't up for our patients
(but at least most hospitals make us bitch at the pharm techs first)
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:37 pm to NewIberiaHaircut
If you want to know the day in the life of a pharmacist. Read this guy's blog, especially the older posts.
LINK
LINK
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:39 pm to MSTiger33
He's actually 100% correct. The pharmacists who couldnt get a residency do retail and thats all they can do. Hard to get a clinical job without a residency now.
Retail may pay more but its not worth the headache.
Retail may pay more but its not worth the headache.
This post was edited on 11/2/14 at 5:40 pm
Posted on 11/2/14 at 5:40 pm to MSTiger33
I get that the job is mundane but then that's the career. Grocery store cashiers who work 20 feet away have harder and crappier jobs but are trained to greet the customers.
They give me the dmv feeling like they're holding a power over me.
They give me the dmv feeling like they're holding a power over me.
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