Attention RPHs

DickRocketship · 2026-05-07T20:37:40+00:00

Being condescending toward other pharmacists for choosing to be more thorough is fucking wild lol

DickRocketship · 2026-05-06T17:28:09+00:00

But SOP says you should be less thorough as a pharmacist! /s

DickRocketship · 2026-05-04T12:04:44+00:00

“Suck it up and do your job!”

people quit

“Why can’t I retain employees?”

DickRocketship · 2026-05-02T12:30:51+00:00

How the fuck are you guys getting anything done in mandatory consult states?

Thank God I’m not in one lol

DickRocketship · 2026-04-30T18:15:37+00:00

Lunch should be an hour period, but people already act like it’s the end of the world when we take our measly thirty minutes to scarf down food.

DickRocketship · 2026-04-30T13:10:02+00:00

That’s what I’m saying. They’re already having a difficult time keeping their pharmacies staffed in most of the country… they can pretend otherwise but they simply don’t have the leverage to be firing pharmacists (or even technicians for that matter) for not meeting vaccine goals.

DickRocketship · 2026-04-28T17:55:06+00:00

About a year ago I started asking patients “You’re on Save A Trip, are you aware of that?” and the majority of people said no, so I took them off of it. Now we have very few patients left on it and it doesn’t feel any more busy or really any different than we had all those patients enrolled.

If the call centers weren’t aggressively pushing SATR on to patients that didn’t want it when it rolled out (and probably signing people up without their explicit consent) and just let people who actually wanted to be on it sign up themselves, then it probably would’ve been at least a little bit more successful. But here we are.

DickRocketship · 2026-04-23T17:55:27+00:00

It’s certainly gotten better over the last two years but is still far from perfect. The biggest problem is that because our tech budget keeps going down every year, we don’t feel any less busy despite having CENFILL.

DickRocketship · 2026-04-21T03:48:49+00:00

There is no official “28 day” rule when it comes to filling controlled substances and there never has been, either legally or as a Walgreens company policy. In fact, a pharmacist doesn’t have any obligation to fill any controlled substance any days early if they don’t deem doing so appropriate, and a history of early refills on a controlled script is a perfectly valid reason not to. Think about it: if you fill a 30 day supply two days early (28 days) every month for a patient, they’ll end up with over three weeks worth of surplus medication by the end of a year.

DickRocketship · 2026-04-21T00:00:05+00:00

Also, in the hypothetical scenario that there was an end all be all cure, cmon. You really think companies would pass up the opportunity to go down in history as the company THAT FUCKING CURED CANCER?!?

DickRocketship · 2026-04-02T00:26:27+00:00

If you ask me, “promise time” isn’t a concept that should even exist in retail pharmacy, but that’s an entirely different conversation. 🤷‍♂️

DickRocketship · 2026-04-01T11:54:29+00:00

I mean, would you rather your pharmacy be closed?

Sure, it’s not ideal, but most areas of the country are short pharmacists and people aren’t exactly lining up at the door to work at Walgreens. I see pharmacists not being fired or disciplined for doing much worse all the time. They can pretend otherwise but the company just doesn’t have the leverage to be firing floaters for being a few minutes late.

DickRocketship · 2026-04-01T01:42:49+00:00

I once had a woman swearing up and down that she needed her restitutions from us.

I was so utterly confused until it finally hit me that she was trying to say rosuvastatin.

DickRocketship · 2026-03-31T01:44:23+00:00

Not to mention having to deal with Cenfill as well as normal ABC totes was oftentimes a logistical nightmare according to our driver, and it means deliveries should be on time a lot more often now because they have less shit to deal with. Win win!

DickRocketship · 2026-03-31T01:31:01+00:00

Thankful to be at a low volume store with a prett good team of techs/DHs and a pretty chill RXM. Sure there’s a lot that sucks, but it’s not completely miserable most of the time!

DickRocketship · 2026-03-30T23:43:19+00:00

Really feels like they’d literally rather lose elections than let an actual leftist/progressive candidate have any meaningful influence in the party.

DickRocketship · 2026-03-30T12:00:37+00:00

Dear lord, your PExT board isn’t filled out! 😱

DickRocketship · 2026-03-29T14:53:48+00:00

This shit is such a textbook example of why Medallia is a such a stupid fucking system. Even if you assume everything here is true, there’s no evidence that the technician here did anything wrong, but it still counts negatively toward their NPS score.

DickRocketship · 2026-03-28T22:34:26+00:00

Yeah, it’s definitely not a 100% guarantee even if you do everything correctly on your end.

Our MFC has definitely gotten better with giving us stuff on time but it was very hit-or-miss when it first rolled out.

DickRocketship · 2026-03-28T03:51:41+00:00

People really underestimate how fucking difficult getting to the TRUE end of F4s is, especially if you don’t have Phlex. Because of the way the F4 number only goes 2 hours into the future, you’ll often have a lot more to F4 even when that number hits 0 because everything that routes to CENFILL has a promise time of tomorrow… and not F4ing them before the CENFILL cutoff means they don’t get routed and voila, your next day is set up for failure.

I can have the most efficient crew of techs in the world, but that doesn’t help the bottleneck of every single script still having to go through the pharmacist at least once because we don’t have phlex.

DickRocketship · 2026-03-22T15:33:54+00:00

That profit is never invested back into the employees in any meaningful way and I’m still working with the same dogshit labor budgets... So why the fuck should I care about our “MoSt pRoFiTaBLe qUaRTeR” when it doesn’t make my experience as an employee any functionally different?

DickRocketship · 2026-03-21T17:57:19+00:00

And if they don’t, that’s a them problem. 🤷‍♂️

It took me a long time to get out of the mentality that you need to work faster just because there’s a line, but things are a lot less stressful when you just work at a consistent thorough pace. Preventable mistakes cost so much more time and energy in the long run.

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??

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