Retail-induced panic attack?!!
https://www.reddit.com/r/pharmacy/comments/alyudx/retailinduced_panic_attack/So this just happened today. Throwaway.
A pharmacist from my local Chocolate-Vanilla-Strawberry dispensary went into a full blown panic attack and was literally forced by the store manager to shut the pharmacy down mid-shift!
The pharmacy was egregiously understaffed with just 2 techs. Normally there’d be at least 5-6 techs as they fill about 400-500 daily. But with the recent hour cuts…it’s been a shitshow!
There were lines of customers out the wazoo and a line in drive thru and a mountain pile of scripts not being typed. A couple of customers went to the store managers to complain about the lack of staff….which led the store managers to walk back there and noticed that the pharmacist was just shut down from their surrounding and not responding appropriately. The managers closed the gates and sat the pharmacist down who was completely bewildered. They took the pharmacist’s BP and it was like….in the 170s/high-90s, whIch is completely abnormal for the pharmacist. The managers wouldn’t let the pharmacist drive themself home so they called someone else to take the pharmacist home. Like what the actual fuck is going on with this shitshow pharmacy company?!!!
It’s fucking ridiculous. FUCKING insane. I’m fucking livid. How much longer are we going to put up with this? Patient lives are at stake. OUR fucking lives are at stake. The fact that customers complained and were concerned for the pharmacist speaks volumes about the direction this company is going??
I have spoken to so many pharmacists who work in the company who are on medications or are starting medications, myself included. Is this going to be a requirement now to get a pharmD?? To be on anti-anxiety meds??)
If this is what is going on in their community/retail establishments… where most everything is HIGHLY VISIBLE… just imagine what is going on in their mail order facilities where the general public DOESN’T GO and everything is done BEHIND CLOSED DOORS ?
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Great thread on Reddit too. Interesting to see inside the world of retail pharmacy.
I read the reddit pharmacy and tales from the pharmacy on a regular basis. The big chains are notorious for forcing their pharmacists to work through their breaks (including lunch and/or dinner), way understaffing them with not enough techs and working them 12 plus hours (again, often with no breaks). I want my pharmacist to be well fed and well-rested, so I use our local independent. If a company thinks little of their employees, I have to wonder how they think about their customers.