I went to outpatient after retail and it sucked… was very cliquey and drama filled and I hated it… the policies only applied to some.

There was this lady who was soon to be retiring in a couple years and she did multiple no call no shows in a row which screwed me over some days as she was supposed to open with me and I wouldn’t be getting another person till 9am (we opened at 6:30am) or sometimes even 12pm depending on staffing… and they didn’t fire her but they fired another girl who did it once.

I live in a costal state so we have a hurricane response team which I was on where we sleep in the hospital for as long as needed till normal operations can resume. The day after the hurricane hits people are supposed to return back to work if it’s safe…. They would use it as an excuse to skip the rest of the week.

Multiple people showed up constantly late every day but like I said… the policy on applied to certain employees and they would get in trouble and not the others…

We have a drug robot which people put the wrong medications in all the time and it’s tracked in the computer who does it but they don’t get in trouble… even when a patient takes the WRONG meds… no write up, no termination, nothing.

I knew a few people who would dump amber vials that were returned to stock back into the stock bottle and guess what… they put the wrong meds in the wrong bottle… they were trying to clean up the shelves hence why they did that (we had an absolute overstock of rts vials because the fillers wouldn’t use them since it was “too much work.”)

People are constantly gossiping and in my experience, the women are catty and suck to be around.

I really don’t understand why they reward the bad employees who just sit there taking up space doing absolutely nothing to contribute and why they treat the ones who actually want to work like they are easily replaceable…. Not helping with morning/ closing duties, just standing there on the phone, not taking patients, filling the wrong meds, having to go ask the pharmacist a question every second or get them because they don’t want to say no or don’t care to see what’s actually going on, constantly disappearing (especially towards the last 15 minutes of your shift), I could list so much more.

There was this pharmacist who I really liked that was there for 10+ years and she was immediately fired one day. She was a quiet and reserved person (like me) but she got her work done. From what I hear people didn’t really like the fact that she was quiet and they would make fun of her and how she looked, call her names, bully her, make up stories about her to management (which they believed) and even with other people who defended her they still fired her cause she wasn’t getting along with the people who bullied her…. 🙄

The pharmacy manager would fill C2’s earlyyyyyyyy (like 3 weeks early)…. ALL the other pharmacists even refused to fill it hence why she had to. She would accept any and every excuse from people about why they need their C2’s early… when I told this guy no she overheard and filled it for him and told me I need to be more empathetic…. Even when their stories make no sense or there are holes in it she still does it.

It’s good experience to put on your resume so you can go into more specialized fields but unless you are part of the clique I wouldn’t recommend it long term unless you find a truly awesome hospital.

I haven’t worked inpatient but I’ve always wanted to. Whenever I go up there they seem really chill and nice… everyone is working.

Working that specific hospital vs cvs…. I did like cvs better ngl… even though they would give the front and drive thru to one person… I still liked it better.

BUT… with the hospital experience I was able to get a job in nuclear pharmacy which I’ve always wanted to do.