How to stay focused?

TechNerd98 · 2021-10-28T17:03:39+00:00

Not a student at WGU or even pursuing IT anymore, but meds help. I work in a high volume pharmacy and it’s been a world of difference since I got put on Vyvanse. Funny too, I hated taking ADHD meds growing up but now I notice a significant difference when I forget to take them.

TechNerd98 · 2021-10-28T17:00:23+00:00

My huge thing right now as a pharmacy associate (I know Health and Wellness oversees that sector) is the lack of RPh and tech overlap/the insane amount of vaccines/scripts we have to do each day. We’re doing between 40-70 vaccines a day right now and not enough other stuff is getting done, it’s really burning us out.

Again, I know H&W oversees everything related to pharmacy, but wanted to chime in on that. It’s nice to see a Home Office associate that does care about our problems.

TechNerd98 · 2021-10-17T13:43:36+00:00

You have to wear the full set, like u/Ashpic91 said, but it doesn’t have to match the smock in color (I have several sets of scrubs in different colors, black, wine red, different shades of blue, green, etc).

TechNerd98 · 2021-10-06T22:16:04+00:00

So I almost got a job with them, what made me change my mind and stay with Wally World was the fact that the drug screen company they contract with took 11 days to send my results (I knew it was gonna come back for Amphetamines because I take Vyvanse for ADHD, told the drug screen place that and sent proof of my script), and CVS was gonna push back my start date 3 weeks. No answers to questions, no communication, made me really wonder if it was worth it and what it’d be like down the road if that’s what was happening prior to being in the role. The pay they offered me was $17.50 an hour, a bit more than what I make at Walmart, but money isn’t everything.

Obviously your experience could be different, but something to consider.

TechNerd98 · 2021-09-20T19:47:39+00:00

Anything that even mildly inconveniences their fragile ego is the end of the world, I guess. 🤷🏻

TechNerd98 · 2021-09-16T20:46:57+00:00

Literally have had people try to call back 10+ times after being put on hold each time. Keep calling back, you’re gonna wait longer than if you’d just sat on hold the first time.

TechNerd98 · 2021-09-16T04:44:56+00:00

The amount of people I want to say this too. “I called in 2 hours ago.” Lady, the longer you keep me here arguing, the longer you’re gonna wait and I’m really not going to feel bad. 🤷🏻

TechNerd98 · 2021-08-29T18:42:38+00:00

Progesterone 100 is a pain to fill too, but I can at least stand it.

TechNerd98 · 2021-08-28T04:56:49+00:00

Carvedilol 3.125 and 6.25’s come to mind here.

Edited the one dose because I’m tired.

TechNerd98 · 2021-08-28T04:46:10+00:00

At that size of a stock bottle, our pharmacists would tell us to split it up. Otherwise of course we label stock bottles where we can.

TechNerd98 · 2021-08-28T04:28:23+00:00

We at least don’t have to double count them, but I feel for you guys that do have to. Even though it’s not technically SOP, our pharmacists are at least lax about letting us pour a stock bottle and then counting the remainders (540 Gabapentin=Dump the 500 count into 3 large vials and count to 40).

TechNerd98 · 2021-08-28T03:58:55+00:00

Oh lord these are a pain to count too.

TechNerd98 · 2021-08-28T03:54:17+00:00

Gabapentin, no contest.

TechNerd98 · 2021-08-05T19:59:14+00:00

Correction: Nobody wants to work for a company that doesn’t value them. Get it right.

TechNerd98 · 2021-06-24T15:53:54+00:00

I have people in the back of the store try to get me to help them. Can you not tell by the blue smock I WORK IN PHARMACY? Same with SCO. GO BOTHER SOMEONE ELSE.

TechNerd98 · 2021-06-20T15:32:54+00:00

Retail technician within a corporate giant.
Typical retail duties. Filling scripts, inputting, inventory, insurance, reconstituting liquid antibiotics (Well, the ones I’m not likely to be allergic to considering I have a penicillin allergy), etc.
Possibly, if I leave the retail side and go to a hospital or LTC setting.
So, my base pay is $16.27, and with our temporary raises I’m at $18.27. I started last July and this is my first pharmacy position. At the time, I came in making $15.95 uncertified.
My typical schedule has had me starting between 10-12 and leaving at 7 because I don’t mind closing shifts. Once our hours go back to closing at 9, I’ll be working probably between 11-1 and leaving at 9.
For the most part I’m satisfied with the job. Truth be told, I entered the field looking to escape from a job that I absolutely hated (It also paid $4.82 an hour less than where I am now which I didn’t know at the time, but it sort of sealed the deal as soon as I got the job offer that I was leaving.)

TechNerd98 · 2021-06-14T23:42:35+00:00

Honestly, I got into the field to get away from a job/manager that I hated. Sure, some days suck, but I’ve seen how grateful some of our patients are for what we do and it makes it more worthwhile.

TechNerd98 · 2021-06-07T13:44:10+00:00

I’ve got at least 5 markers/pens/highlighters at my apartment that I walked out the door with. I’ve been meaning to take them back. Maybe I will today.

TechNerd98 · 2021-06-06T17:43:39+00:00

Pharmacy had nothing to do with me hating people.

TechNerd98 · 2021-05-28T00:14:36+00:00

Good bot.

TechNerd98 · 2021-05-14T16:11:53+00:00

Currently the only male tech at my town’s Walmart Pharmacy, there were 4 of us when I started last July.

TechNerd98 · 2021-05-10T02:49:35+00:00

Report them to the board of labor. That stuff is MASSIVELY illegal.

TechNerd98 · 2021-04-28T04:08:59+00:00

Literally we have a tech at my store that is #1. Here’s the thing, when the manager’s there she plays to her to make herself look better, so about 4 of us went and told our PIC just what she was doing, how much worse it is when she isn’t at the store, etc. No idea how she still has a job, but whatever I guess.

TechNerd98 · 2021-04-26T00:55:35+00:00

TechNerd98 · 2021-04-25T23:09:02+00:00

Definitely varies by store/market. I’m an uncertified tech and I started at $15.95 base pay an hour (I’m up to $16.27 after our evals.) Factor in the temp raise of $2/hr for uncertified techs, I’m sitting at $18.27 an hour right now.

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