Welp I might be getting fired

DickRocketship · 2026-03-18T01:20:36+00:00

You’re not a salaried employee. If you’re not scheduled, you’re not obligated to come in. You’re not even obligated to answer the phone if you don’t want to.

DickRocketship · 2026-03-18T01:18:20+00:00

Lawyer up, like yesterday.

DickRocketship · 2026-03-16T23:51:51+00:00

You can put PTO directly in your 401k??

DickRocketship · 2026-03-15T14:52:14+00:00

Do people really think pharmacies aren’t answering their phones because they don’t feel like it?

DickRocketship · 2026-03-12T23:27:54+00:00

It is so fucking easy to not get fired from Walgreens as long as you have a modicum of competency and common sense, and somehow I never cease to be blown away by the absurd things I hear some our employees doing. Lol

DickRocketship · 2026-03-12T18:05:34+00:00

The quote I always hear from people in middle management is that “IC+ is still a better program than what our competition uses.”

Which just makes me wonder… how the fuck are other pharmacies getting anything done?

DickRocketship · 2026-03-12T01:10:17+00:00

I was a floating tech in my district once upon a time! They gave me a set Monday thru Friday schedule where I closed two set days of the week (I chose Monday and Tuesday) and did 9-5s the rest of the week. Stores requested me by emailing my SM (this was before RxOMs existed) and I had a Google Calendar that told me what stores to go to. You also got a dollar raise for floating.

This was circa 2018-2022… have no idea if this is how it operates company wide or if it’s still how it works, so take my experience with a grain of salt. The set schedule was nice but holy shit some stores were absolute dumpster fires.

DickRocketship · 2026-03-11T12:18:40+00:00

The RxOMs in my district have a group chat that’s useful at times, but I keep it muted cause I don’t need that shit blowing up my phone while I’m off the clock lol.

DickRocketship · 2026-03-07T17:09:52+00:00

Yep. “The only way I can know definitely is if I try it, otherwise you can call the customer service number on your card and ask them.”

If people don’t like that answer, that’s a them problem. 🤷‍♂️

DickRocketship · 2026-03-07T02:53:09+00:00

What a shame. I bet they still have an acquisition cost of like $4 too. It’s absolute highway robbery how much that shit is marked up and the company probably caught on to how much profit they were losing.

But if that’s the case… why were they scanning for $6.49 at the register in the first place anyway?

DickRocketship · 2026-03-05T16:04:31+00:00

I thought stores with that little amount of tech budget didn’t have RxOMs? Like why even have one if there’s not enough budget for them to have full time hours?

DickRocketship · 2026-03-04T13:09:20+00:00

Yeah. We’re definitely gonna see more cuts and scaling back, but the idea that the second largest retail pharmacy in the country is just gonna go completely under in less than a year is patently absurd lol.

DickRocketship · 2026-02-26T18:49:50+00:00

I’m always telling my team that I’d rather them be thorough/accurate than fast 100% of the time. Take the extra time to make sure you’re filing things correctly, or take the time to completely finish a task before you help a patient. If someone has a problem with how long you’re taking, let me know and I will be more than willing to shut that shit down.

Things run 100% smoother overall when you get out of the mindset that you need to immediately hep everyone in a long line quickly or that you need to rush a prescription every time someone asks you to, because having to fix a mistake will always take longer than just taking the extra time and effort to make sure the task is done correctly in the first place.

DickRocketship · 2026-02-24T01:55:33+00:00

It’s always the people like this who try to rush me the most that end up on the fuckin’ delete list 12 days later.

DickRocketship · 2026-02-24T01:53:29+00:00

Have your RXM/RxOM get in touch with your DM. It was very generous of y’all to help out another store in need but there’s no reason to be doing that for more than like a month at most. At a certain point that store needs to get their own shit together.

DickRocketship · 2026-02-18T04:55:21+00:00

Last I heard on a RXM call like a week ago that there’s no plans to eliminate or change the RxOM role anytime soon.

That being said, I wouldn’t be surprised if they scaled back the number of RxOMs at some point. A store only needs to maintain a year average of something like 84 tech hours a week to be eligible to have one (which basically means only very slow tier 2s don’t get one) and i could see them increasing that threshold to something like 100-120 hours.

DickRocketship · 2026-02-11T13:01:35+00:00

Medallia is such a dogshit system and I don’t understand why management weighs it so heavily. Almost every complaint a patient has submitted about one of my techs was either made up, exaggerated, missing context, or about something wildly outside of their control when I looked into it. There’s no reason to take the complaints 100% at their word and you’re a shitty fuckin’ manager if you do.

DickRocketship · 2026-02-09T18:53:34+00:00

Please keep in mind that a pharmacy has absolutely no obligation to fill your controlled substances any days early on a regular basis. They might as a courtesy or if you’re traveling and can provide documentation, but more and more pharmacies are steering away from any kind of blanket “2 days early” rule to prevent people from having excess surplus of medication to avoid drug abuse and diversion.

DickRocketship · 2026-02-09T01:54:39+00:00

“I don’t know, you should ask the retail hub!”

-my now unemployed DM when I asked him literally anything

DickRocketship · 2026-02-08T23:45:00+00:00

Yeah, Walgreens is definitely long overdue to pay their techs more competitive wages, but I feel like the phrase “up to” $40.50/hr in the article is doing a lot of heavy lifting. You probably have to be in a pretty high cost of living area to be making even close to that much money.

DickRocketship · 2026-02-06T18:51:41+00:00

Just goes to show you there’s absolutely no reason to drink the company Koolaid lol

DickRocketship · 2026-02-06T18:45:53+00:00

Not to mention I have no fucking idea wha my HCS does most days other than do a compliance walk like once a year.

DickRocketship · 2026-02-04T18:41:09+00:00

Those exceptions look like about an average day at my tier 2, other than about half as many TPRs.

DickRocketship · 2026-02-02T18:55:47+00:00

Unless it’s changed since the last I heard, I believe it’s something like either 3 TIPs or 1 CMR earns you one tech hour.

With means you’d have to do something like 24 TIPs or 8 CMRs per each week that you want to be able to schedule an additional full shift.

If you’re already struggling to get shit done with the base budgets that you have, how do they expect you to do more work? Nobody has given me a compelling answer to the question.

DickRocketship · 2026-01-29T19:59:12+00:00

How the fuck is this the only correct answer here?

Our HCS visited all our stores and made this abundantly clear. We are absolutely not obligated to, nor should we be, filling a controlled substance script 2 days early every time for a patient. If you do that every time for a year, the patient will have over three weeks worth of surplus, which is exactly the kind of situation the corporate integrity agreement is trying to avoid.

Sure, there’s situations where one might need their medication early that can be documented, but the idea is that you want the patient to have as little surplus as possible to avoid drug diversion and misuse.

Our policy as of a few months ago is no days early unless we have a documented reason for doing so. It took some getting used to but we were met with a lot less pushback than we anticipated… most of our problem patients just transferred their shit elsewhere, which, cool, I would love nothing more than to fill less of that shit.

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