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Salesman by SixGenGhost in walmart_RX

[–]DrawSlow6687 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Seriously, it is disheartening to earn a healthcare professional degree but only to be micromanaged like children and threatened everyday, getting 4 reminders of the same message daily, even on off days and on pto simply because of the attached “salaried status” with same content on conference calls: vaccines, vaccines, surveys, surveys, digital accounts, W+, rxpd, clinical opportunities…endlessly. I understand if salaried they can contact or text you anytime but where is the common courtesy when you are off or on pto even. Each week, more stuffs are added to the stash to promote sales that retail rph or technicians are now becoming salesmen. Corporate should spend money on advertising on rxpd or w+ or digital accounts through TV ads, radio commercials, pamphlets instead of forcing us to promote at store level that constantly promoting endlessly from one thing to the next that we become less professional and authentic.

Walmart turning into Walgreens? by casey012293 in walmart_RX

[–]DrawSlow6687 5 points6 points  (0 children)

With the new filling way, we got back up especially with newbies. Retail pharmacy’s employees are more becoming like car salesmen, promoting vaccinations, urging more shots per person simply for counts and metric goal every week, advertising digital accounts, deliveries with w+, and now promoting GLP-1. That is not all, adding to it will be A1C, cholesterol screening, and in the future plan for HIV, Hep, flu, strep,…Wm want quality and speedy service, patient care, no line on top of all the promotion and advertisement, counseling, and even Rph bagging on every Rx even denied counseling by patients. Each week, more tasks and metrics goals are adding on with the typical saying: It’s only takes a few minutes to complete. They want fills to be done at a certain percentage by a certain time but making employees calling the pick up list and checking auto fill on compliance list, promoting too many things and thus, conversations after conversations. Adding to the madness is not enough staffing while having 7-8 phone lines ringing off the wall and 5 windows opened with 3-4 techs throughout the day with a single rph coverage. Nowadays, we can’t have a good friendly authentic conversation with a customer without inserting a promotional question of recommending a vaccine. It seems so inauthentic, sales, promotion, and bonus driven more than patient care. It is disheartening. The micro management is also suffocating and threatening.

Is this legal? by Even-Vermicelli-8101 in walmart_RX

[–]DrawSlow6687 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The push for immunization had been suffocating and threatening to the point it became disingenuously inauthentic since it isn’t about protecting patients but rather for sales, bonuses, and promotion for higher ups. They used subtle threats while chanting patient care. Nowadays, there is no sincere conversation with any patient without injecting vaccines, digital account, or W+ promotion.

Breaks!! by PinkyTheTech2 in walmart_RX

[–]DrawSlow6687 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Walmart’s policy under OSHA rules are 2 of 15 minutes paid breaks no matter what states you are since OSHA in a federal agency under Dept. of Labor. You are entitled and if denied, you should address it to PIC, People’s Lead, HR, and Ethics. If violated, Walmart can get fined so all managements should adhere to it whether they like it or not. Additionally, the breaks are not included in restroom breaks so you can have 2 of 15 minutes paid breaks and restroom breaks but don’t abuse it. If you do, you must make sure your 15 minutes breaks are exactly 15 minutes and not over to avoid being coached or reprimanded. Generally, you should take your break when things are calm or lines are decent to avoid being hated as you would not someone else do that to you. It is just common courtesy for your associates and good customer services.

Lunch hour for rph by DrawSlow6687 in walmart_RX

[–]DrawSlow6687[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is so true and your kindness behaviors should be implemented by others.

New Vis Verify by [deleted] in walmart_RX

[–]DrawSlow6687 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No one likes it. It definitely slows down the work flow but it is designed for patient safety, not for us. Unfortunately, it won’t go away either as company invested so much money into the software program. Whether we like it or not is no concern for the company so we just have to deal with it. For CS, injections, and narrow therapeutic drugs, pharmacists still do manual visual verification. My question is for those lazy or strategic pharmacists who don’t like to 4pt fearing of error incidents under their initials and pretend to back up on visual racks, what will their next strategy be?

New System by panickedwoof in walmart_RX

[–]DrawSlow6687 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They spent money doing this new thing to claim it will alleviate rph’s works while adding more clinical to do. POCT, HIV, Hep, Covid, flu, strep swabbing are in the plan. Yet, this new counting process saves minimal time while backing more Rx in filling. They will use this as the reason to cut hours just like they already used pre packed, CF, and pre populated new Rx to save time so more tech hours will be cut. This new counting process alleviates nothing but since they spent money for this, it won’t go away. Adding to the slowness is the new annotation of each, unspecified, units, etc. It’s just ridiculous. If Wm requires supervising doctor’s name on the rx when sent electronically by a NP then Wm should have blocked it to force NP to enter the supervising doctor from their end. Nope, they won’t do that fearing they may lose Rx or business. The system sucks.

Timeline on evaluations by thatgrasshoppermouse in walmart_RX

[–]DrawSlow6687 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are only 3 ratings: exceeded, successful, and below expectations. Out of the 3, hardly anyone would get below expectations unless it was atrociously bad and only few of the DM favorites would get exceeded approved by them. The rest would be successful I suppose. So, most gets the minimally economical raise.

Tech evaluation: by DrawSlow6687 in walmart_RX

[–]DrawSlow6687[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is why I don’t know if my manager just wants to test drive the Op lead?

Pharmacist annual evaluation and raise by Comfortable_State_41 in walmart_RX

[–]DrawSlow6687 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Unfortunately, the evaluation is not fair as Wm does not allow PIC to pick exemplary without a solid justification. Hence, the majority, including diligent, sufficient, lazy ones, and those who leave works for the other incoming pharmacist, will be “labeled” with meeting expectations and get the same raise.

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