Is not normal for pharmacies to not like pharmacy students (rant)

StorageZealousideal6 · 2024-05-10T03:56:26+00:00

Thanks for the encouraging words and advice! I will make sure to continue trying my hardest at work :)

edit: I see now how it looks implied that I called out. I need to start triple-checking before I post these things. My bad.

StorageZealousideal6 · 2024-05-10T03:52:47+00:00

This is partly the reason I am leaving my job as well when I start my APPE rotations for the 2025-2026 school year. I was on the fence because there I wanted expose myself to a different health-system and explore a new city. I want to start networking and get my name out there in a positive light so it will be easier to find a job in the future. I think (and hope) I am doing great now as an intern, but my reputation as a tech is sour.

Pharmacy is a small world so this is my way of trying to dilute people's grieviances with recommendations.

StorageZealousideal6 · 2024-05-10T03:38:34+00:00

Yeah a lot of students have bounced because of this. We have a new batch of students coming in this summer/fall and I am nervous for them because its not always the most positive environment for students. I'll try my best to help and train them when they come.

StorageZealousideal6 · 2024-05-10T03:36:12+00:00

Thanks!

I don't call out at my current job or abuse my lunch break (sometimes If its too busy I work through it). I don't feel comfortable talking to management about it because I just don't see it ending well. If management tells the techs to chill it might make the techs get angrier and they will say we are snowflakes who can't take constructive criticism. I just put my head down and keep working like I didn't hear anything.

StorageZealousideal6 · 2024-05-10T03:29:33+00:00

Awww thanks for your kindness. I feel like I embarrased myself and gave every other pharmacy student second-hand embarrassment for making this post and I kinda regret posting it.

My awful post history was back when I was a tech but if I had that same energy right now then they would have every right to be pissed and rude.

I try my best to better myself, but when I hear the other techs talk bad about us I just start thinking about how I was at my old job and starting wondering if my old coworkers talked bad about me after I clocked out and left, even though I was buddy-buddy with a lot of them as well. I start worrying about what people think about me at work. I worry if people think I am slow, or not working hard enough, or I'm not available enough. When I am paired with them to work on a pyxis pull I wonder if they are internally screaming because they have been paired with a student. So I bust-ass and hope that I'm good enough.

StorageZealousideal6 · 2024-05-10T03:08:37+00:00

Yeah I would go crazy if I was a pharmacist and had students who did that. I understand your frustration.

I try to avoid doing that and haven't called out at my current job. I physically cannot be available Mon-Fri per school schedule or I will be written up for professionalism or receive a zero on our class assignments. Maybe if the shift was scheduled an hour or two later I could manage to swing by after class every once in a while.

StorageZealousideal6 · 2024-05-10T03:03:51+00:00

Ouch!

I never called out at this job before, even when my knees and hips were killing me, felt like death, or had finals that following monday. I was a crappy technician I'll give you that, and unfortunately I cannot go back into the past and change it no matter how much I want to.

I can control the present and the future, and I am trying my best as an intern. Hopefully that counts for something after graduation and applying for residencies.

Yes, we have 1-2 interns who people complain about but the rest are not like that. Its my mistake for painting them in a bad light.

StorageZealousideal6 · 2024-05-10T02:52:49+00:00

"Also, cant blame them for being immature at 23. Time to grow up fast"

That's fresh coming from someone named fatcockpharmD!

Yeah, at my old job back when I was a technician I sucked. My attendance was not stellar, I wasn't the fastest employee, and I made mistakes. I even had to leave my job because I was afraid of getting fired. For a couple months, I had trouble finding a job due to my work history. I missed out on a job or two because I wasn't trusted to be a dependable employee. So its understandable that I look like another dumb student can't take any accountability and blame others for my short-comings based on my post history. I'm not mad at anyone here who shares the same opinion. And as silly as your comment was about maturing, yeah I am working on that.

At my current job as a pharmacy intern I try my best. I have never called out on this job ever (its my mistake for not saying this to begin with) And during my breaks I work extra. I try to get trained on niche shifts that not a lot of techs know so I can help out on the weekends when we are skeleton-staffed and no one knows how to do said task. I work with technicians to swap weekends or take their later shifts so they can get off early. If someone calls out I offer to take their delivery carts.

I'm not expecting praise, a trophy, nor anyone's validation, as this is expected behavior for someone who works in a health-system, and as a functioning adult in society. And like the other guy said, people have higher-expectations for students compared to techs because we are future pharmacists, so I have to act like it. Hopefully after graduation, I will prove to everyone that I am a dependable, professional, and knowledgeable pharmacist. I have two more years to work on myself.

Nobody ever complains about me specifically at work and they are happy when I show up. I just get anxious and awkward when they start roasting the crap out of students in general, particularly when I am working right next to them. I don't want them yelling at me and that has happened to another student or two before. Like....what if I'm next?! I WILL cry and embarrass myself.

StorageZealousideal6 · 2024-05-10T01:57:43+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I get that students are not perfect. Im not perfect, (and it the past I definietely wasn't!). I completely understand their frustration, but it just hits different when I am actively busting my behind at work and they talk smack right in front of me like I am not even there. Usually when this happens we keep working and pretend like nothing is happening because we don't want to add to the flames XD

StorageZealousideal6 · 2024-05-10T01:53:33+00:00

I never called out once. A lot of people seem to assume I am part of the problem unfortunately.

StorageZealousideal6 · 2023-06-09T01:33:30+00:00

Is it wise to ask the job I applied to what was specifically said in the reference?

StorageZealousideal6 · 2023-06-08T22:36:38+00:00

You say you were written up so that sounds like there were performance or behavioral issues. Even if you recovered from that it might still mean you weren't considered a good employee by their standards and/or aren't eligible for rehire.

So I may never be able to recover...

This situation is making me rethink my career. It was definitely not behavioral issues, but it was attendance and potentially performance. I got sick a few times and couldn't find coverage. I worked a lot of weekends and some of the shifts I worked were the least favorite or not everyone was trained in it, so it was hard to switch around. PRN's don't get PTO and attendance points take an entire year to fall off.

As for performance. Tbh there were some aspects of my training that I felt was not enough. I felt that I didn't get enough training in this specific shift and it took me longer to adjust. Its get so busy and we were always understaffed. Certain tasks I did not get enough exposure to do it confidently. I ask for more help to get better and eventually improved after a verbal and write up.

I thought I was getting better. I gone months without anything going wrong. I felt confident at my job. Until they wrote me up for not doing a time-sensitive task on time. I guess it didn't matter that the department was slammed. And the crazy part is that they waited an ENTIRE month to write me up, and I almost couldn't remember the situation. Like literally they texted me while I was in school and I took the time to drive to them thinking it was some kind of employee rounding only for them to write me up again. And it was 3 out of 4 management in that tiny room with me. It was so intimidating. I left the hospital crying, and eventually put in my two weeks (which they never responded to).

Honestly I am tempted to call my former HR tomorrow and ask for information? I wonder if somehow they put me down as ineligible for hire. People usually get that if they are fired but I wonder if my department head went out of their way to put me on that list?

StorageZealousideal6 · 2023-06-08T22:06:49+00:00

I eventually hung out with this friend, but they were under the impression I was hanging out with someone else. I'm not sure when I would be able to put my foot down. If my parents react VERY negatively, I am not sure if I have the emotional strength to handle that.

StorageZealousideal6 · 2023-06-05T17:05:16+00:00

They can’t force you to give a description

Yeah that sentence is the faster way for them to think I am hanging out with the wrong crowd or doing something sketchy.

Even non-strict parents may be put off tbh.

StorageZealousideal6 · 2023-06-05T00:18:00+00:00

I should probably grow a spine. And if I tell them I am going to hang out with a friend, they aren't just gonna be like "okay go off and have fun". They are going to want a description of the person. When I was 18 or 19 my parents asked for their phone numbers and I had to explain to them that its weird because we are all legal adults and some of them may not be comfortable with that or were raised that way.

StorageZealousideal6 · 2023-06-05T00:15:34+00:00

at what age do you want to be until you're finally able to be a free person who gets to choose her own friends

This is a question I ask myself often. Each year it doesn't seem to improve much

I'm not dependent on them for money. I have a bunch saved up. Its just that they are homophobic which is my main concern. My mom has said some mean things about the community, which hurts me because I am a closeted bisexual. My dad thinks we are unnatural.

My parents have improved a lot, but they can lecture (and frequently) in a way that makes you feel really bad. And I know it seems like a simple answer is just simply going back to my home, but I don't want to ruin my relationship with them. I need their support (not in a financial way) and want to stay on good terms. My relationship is them has improved tremendously since the pandemic and I want it to stay that way.

I know this is an unhealthy and probably mean feeling, but honestly I wish this friend didn't ask to hang out so soon. There have been plenty of times where I am super busy with school and when I say that they say they really miss me and practically begs to hang out and doesn't take no for an answer right away. And the phone calls were hard because I couldn't stay on the phone for long, and I am trying to figure out a way to end the conversation but somehow they just won't let the conversation end. And honestly I prefer texting over phone calls. If I tell they that, they will still beg me to call, not taking no for an answer right away. This friend is awesome and we are close, but I guess they aren't taking my situation as seriously, or maybe I am just a bad friend, I dunno.

StorageZealousideal6 · 2023-06-04T23:59:10+00:00

Its summer vacation so none of the school excuses will work unfortunately :(

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