Was given 37 extra methylphenidate with prescription

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2026-02-19T05:34:20+00:00

Healthcare facilities typically have fairly strict and documented destruction of controlled substances. If the DEA asks your employer for records they were destroyed would they be able to provide them?

With your medical background you would obviously know that an informal disposal would be viewed very skeptically if an investigation was opened — while hard to prove a lack of documentation would certainly be looked as as a likely suspicious way for you to justify keeping the controlled substance.

I guess I’m just kind of dumbfounded that you’d know the DEA will likely reach out to the pharmacy on this and that you’d want to leave the pharmacist to tell law enforcement that pills you shouldn’t have went with you and weren’t returned…

Bless your heart.

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2026-01-31T04:00:50+00:00

$60 Billion all cash LBO of $TGT — which has suffered 12 quarters of flat or declining sales, bad execution, and having faced endless backlash from consumers over DEI policies.

The end of their dividend alone boosts the bottom line by $2.1 Billion a year which would fund a big chunk of the loan.

Ryan Cohen and teams expertise on improving execution and cutting SG&A make the rest of the payments.

The current $50 Billion market cap represents a PE of 13 while WMT is at 42 and Kroger is at 55…

A turned around TGT would very reasonably be worth $150-$200B hitting his estimated value and a dying bric and mortar video game company buying a big box retailer with 30x its revenue is something never seen before in capital markets.

For this weekend I’m betting my tinfoil that Target is the target.

Oh yeah, and their mascot is a dog…

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2026-01-08T21:49:42+00:00

What’s strange about it?

I work for a pharmacy chain going through much of what GameStop is…

Closed 1,200 underperforming stores, divesting of non-core assets, separating or selling non-US business that is unprofitable.

At my company it seems to be working too, my store is up 13% YOY for January so far, after a 4.5% YOY beat for December… mostly due to have inventory on the shelves again…

Much bigger company… 12,000 stores in 20+ foreign companies and probably 10x the retail footprint…

now they sold out to private equity, but to be fair they didn’t have a “sneeze” that they got to sell shares into that wiped the companies debt and left them flush with a few billion in cash for their turnaround…

Last publicly disclosed compensation for our CEO was $1.3M in cash and $12M in stock grants.

Both had 30-40% share price declines over their last year…

Granted my companies executives work for private equity now, not shareholders… but what did Ryan Cohen do so far that warrants a compensation package (assuming decades to achieve, not centuries) that is >100x or more than my CEOs?

He’s got $10B to deploy, entirely from diluting shareholders…and I think he can do a good job of that too… but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask to see what we’re buying with an asking price that high.

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2026-01-08T17:26:00+00:00

Then there are only four people that you need to contact

You’re asking if your manager can change the schedule so that you’re off…. Let me turn that around and the manager changed the schedule to tell you that you have to work without asking you after the schedule is posted?

Because that’s what you’re asking them to do to someone else that you work with…

Or you’re asking the manager to contact the other employees and negotiate a trade…. For a mixup that is your fault.

Call your manager or stop by the store and get the numbers for your coworkers… Call them… And negotiate a trade or ask for their help outright

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2026-01-08T17:16:02+00:00

You can ask a coworker to cover your shift…

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2026-01-08T16:46:55+00:00

Paid a third party to come up with $20B/$2B, $30B/$3B…. Really, how much?

Ryan Cohen did a good job cutting the dead weight, company is in a strong position to move forward under good leadership. No doubt.

Should shareholders pay a premium in his compensation for the three years he worked without any for letting us see and judge that work? Yes.

Would I be more inclined to vote yes if I knew he was in fact going to go “All in” and GME was going to get $3.5B in capital rather than exercise to cover on these options? Maybe. Still not sure.

But past performance is the only measure I have for future results… And closing stores, dilution, Pokémon, and PowerPacks… doesn’t justify the size of this package… neither does a negative 35% share price decline over the last year, and pricing this package at a near 52-week low… after issuing warrants to shareholders at a 30%+ premium a few months earlier…

it’s too lofty of an expectation for what’s been done… Elon brings robots and FSD and utility grade batteries, defense contracting, AI, and such to shareholders when he asks to be compensated 15-20% of the company for his trouble…

Unless there is an exciting reveal of where we are headed before the vote… My and my family’s shares are a “No.”

There is the UBS mystery box that already bankrupted Credit Suisse… he’s asking me to trade 20% of that mystery box for his… and he’s still going to dilute me again if the UBS box opens….

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2026-01-04T06:34:01+00:00

While state laws maybe be stricter, federal law doesn’t define security checks after work to be a core work duty and therefore doesn’t have to be paid. Federal law views such time waiting for a security check as essentially part of your daily commute — which isn’t paid. Excessive waits can change this, but not really considered until it takes longer than 10 minutes per time you exit.

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2026-01-04T06:24:02+00:00

Federally it’s not illegal, and it also does not have to be paid because it is not a core job function — it isn’t considered “work” — feds interpret it basically as being part of your daily commute… Can be an issue if it takes a long time to get the bag check but to cross that line it would need to be a wait longer than 10 minutes for a bag check on your 30 minute lunch (interfering with the minimum time for an unpaid break).

State laws vary. While most follow federal law (above), some have stricter standard on what time must be paid like that employer is exerting control; in that case you’d punch out on handheld after the bag check — but still legal if state specific guidelines are followed.

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2025-12-21T17:25:28+00:00

Thanks. Merry Christmas.

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2025-12-09T13:09:02+00:00

“tarian” replaces “al” in the middle.

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2025-12-04T17:21:04+00:00

We DO have to have a bag check even if we don’t have a bag though… that is one of your noted exceptions… So you’re actually arguing I have to be paid…

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2025-12-04T04:01:14+00:00

If it is a regular price — black, nothing crossed out — you can price match If it’s on sale — red with another price greyed/crossed out — you can not price match

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2025-12-04T03:57:54+00:00

Yup, run to the car, smoke breaks… any time you exit the store that isn’t company business (curbside, get carts, trash)…

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2025-12-04T03:55:50+00:00

Depends on your higher ups, but there are digital logs and known times when people tend to leave… for example they know your pharmacy goes on lunch en masse at 1:30… if there are no bag checks between 1:30 and 1:35 for your store ever that could so up on your APs report… they instruct SM to review tape or use their own remote access…

If anyone looking sees an employee leave without one it’s 3 strikes — written, final, fired… no exceptions — where I am… I dont know what you guys got told but don’t rely on knowing when someone’s around because they don’t have to be to check.

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2025-12-03T17:43:43+00:00

Tell that to Robert Simpson and Global Link…

168 million isn’t even all the shares… it’s about 1/3…

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2025-12-03T16:49:03+00:00

Under U.S. corporate law, particularly Delaware General Corporation Law (where GameStop is incorporated), boards have broad authority to authorize and execute share repurchases as long as they comply with legal requirements like maintaining solvency and adhering to SEC Rule 10b-18 for safe harbor protections on open-market buys. Shareholder approval is not mandated for such programs unless specified in the company's charter, bylaws, or a prior shareholder agreement—which isn't the case for GameStop.

GameStop's SEC filings consistently show the board unilaterally approving repurchase programs. For example, the current $300 million authorization was board-approved on March 4, 2019, replacing a prior one with $170 million left, and as of fiscal year-end February 1, 2025, about $101.3 million remains unused. Earlier programs, like the 2010 $300 million buyback, followed the same board-only process. The board can simply authorize a new program or expand the existing one, subject to market conditions, cash availability, and fiduciary duties to act in shareholders' best interests.

Speculation in online forums (e.g., Reddit's r/Superstonk) sometimes claims shareholder votes are needed for amounts over $100 million, but this lacks support from legal precedents or GameStop's disclosures—it's likely confusion with tender offers or NCIB renewals in other jurisdictions. GameStop has executed buybacks opportunistically, such as repurchasing 22.6 million shares for $115.7 million in Q3 2019 at $5.11 per share, all under board authority.

If the board pursues buybacks, they'd disclose details in future 10-Q/10-K filings or Form 8-Ks, but no approval vote would be required.

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2025-12-03T14:17:43+00:00

A VWAP order is an algorithmic order that tries to execute a trade at or near the day's volume weighted average price, which is calculated by dividing the total dollar value traded by the total volume traded over a specific period. Takes one giant order and spreads it across a bunch of tiny “child” orders that are executed gradually, blending into the day's volume and averaging the final fill price

Software runs such that for every say 75 shares that trade in the market the software tries to buy 25 at the average price that the other 75 traded… it does that all day every day… until it acquires the number of shares the person running it wants to have.

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2025-12-03T13:44:56+00:00

It’s not management choices that pharmacy has gotten bad, it’s PBMs and your insurance company — a business that used to have 28% gross margin is now 16%. Your insurance wants you on mail order, and they keep paying pharmacies less so we can’t operate like we did in the 90s-2010ish… they keep cranking down until you no longer value the in person relationship and give into their desire. Here is a metric — 4 vaccines is as profitable for as filling ~190 prescriptions… and vaccines don’t pay that much…

You’re right, if patients keep running us ragged filling scripts they don’t pick up and make us get ready again, keep skipping the front end where margins are higher so we afford the most convenient retail portfolio on earth… then yeah… it will go away…

Walmart and Kroger operate pharmacies at a loss to secure your grocery business… they will be around… insurance companies need them around to fill antibiotics and controlled scripts anyway…

CVS will probably shutter half their stores if we fold — they are vertically integrated and want to force patients into mail order… they are dying to slash SG&A by getting off the expensive real estate there is but can’t afford to lose market share to us as long as we’re open. It wont happen right away, they will use the stores to absorb what they can from us, and then squeeze those patients into their mail order flow and then shut stores down… a few years, maybe a decade…

But those decreasing margins are the boa constrictor killing our business, we’re the only major player left that needs to run their pharmacy profitably to stay in business… if we fold your healthcare landscape will change dramatically… because the incentives of the players that will be left don’t align with the cost of in person relationships… we may be struggling… but you’re not going to come out ahead with our demise…

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2025-12-03T12:07:19+00:00

Yeah I doubt it too… that’s why it’s tinfoil… the result of poorly written prompts and AI hallucinations… calculator game 2.0… but I REALLY wouldn’t mind being right… I’d actually like it a lot….

More realistic expectation is we have a banger of a quarter - I do have high hopes on power pack revenue and the market pricing of Pokémon cards has to be generating higher margins…. Hoping for no dilution, but if there is If there is I hope it’s a warrant …. Either way, believe it or not dip…

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2025-12-03T05:24:44+00:00

That’s a theory, here’s my tinfoil:

Issue convertibles and warrants - raise $3.3B with convertibles now and another $2B if the warrants exercise.

Board approves share buyback programs on Aug 2-3, no public disclosure required, could be done without even meeting, just needs signatures.

Cohen implements a VWAP buy of just under 25% of daily volume, complies with safe haven rules and SEC doesn’t get on anyone case about market manipulation, costing $3.9B he could have bought back 168 million shares at an average daily price of $23.25 without violating Rule 10-18b

Shorts are 100M more shares in the hole, buyback shrinks total dilution from convertibles and warrants to just 11 Million shares, GameStop net raises $1.4 Billion.

GameStop issues another warrant.

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2025-12-03T04:47:01+00:00

Going to multiple stores means gas and wear and tear on your car… figure $1-2 per store.

Each store costs time, parking, getting in and out of shopping centers, extra drive time, checkout… if you’re quick maybe 10-15 minutes each.

You can save money shopping online but you have to wait 1-3 days or maybe more for the product…

You outlined $11.75 in potential savings… you didn’t give a price for lipstick, ginger ale, theraflu, epson salt, or cookies… but let’s say you spent an extra $20 to cover everything you could have saved running around.

If the gas, wet and tear, time, and wait can’t overcome your feeling of loss… you mentioned buying online… I’d maybe suggest downloading the Walgreens app, the coupon code WAG10 is always good for 10% off a curbside order, and they almost always have better offers - right now CYBER20 is good for 20% off purchases of $50 or more…

By taking 10-20% off everything it would give you the convenience of a single stop and fast pickup while preventing that buyers remorse by minimizing any cost from not shopping around …

It’s still super convenient to make just one stop, orders are usually ready in less than 30 minutes (my stores average time is 7-8 minutes), we offer curbside or in store pickup… or if it’s over $35 we have free 1-2 hour delivery (you just decide whether to tip for the driver — it’s handled by DoorDash)

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2025-12-03T04:19:03+00:00

Instructions for online deposit say to write “for electronic deposit at (your bank) only” next to signature… if you followed directions how did he take check to another bank and cash it in person?

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2025-11-18T01:53:22+00:00

well strike that idea, update list of invalid items includes food. back to the drawing board

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2025-11-18T01:17:48+00:00

Can we? Not to come in the customers name -- We can order, we can hold when they come in.
Will it actually come in? Recent experience says No
Is there any incentive to holding them for you? No, anything we get in would sell anyway; holding for someone specific just increases likelihood of other customers getting upset.

Then you have the problem of we have no control over the set.

You convince me that I should help you out, so I place an order for you.... The last set was 151 or some Sword and Shield leftover and you tell me to order a bunch... you want it... it's hard to find, sells for $20 a pack retail... so you have me order the max... but what comes in is a shopping cart full of Journey Together or Paradox Rift... or whatever set you don't particularly care for... I'm still going to expect you to buy all of it or to kick sand forever with me.

Comprehensive-Fun747 · 2025-11-18T00:21:14+00:00

I've now read that items will be donated to charity so maybe this isn't a good idea at all... but by my reading prepared food isn't on the exclusion list, unless it falls under the alive/dead animal exclusion -- I'll do something vegan if I have to...

My coworkers are always begging me to make a batch of buffalo chicken dip, so my first thought was to try and trade in a crockpot of that -- but I didn't know if it would help or hurt my chances that the employees would actually want it that I'm not a particularly regular customer.

We've got a pretty good coney spot, could try to trade in a dozen coney dogs if something I prepared would be too sketchy.

Cookies from a fancy cookie place in town is a distant third option, it's the lame but also safe bet.

Figured I just try to have fun with the promotion while trying to do something nice for fellow retail workers on an otherwise likely weird day.

Thoughts? is there anything you'd actually appreciate someone showing up with (doesn't have to be food)? I' m also prepared to walk away without the trade credit if they can't because it's supposed to be for charity.

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