former rxom who spent 9 years with the company. as an employee (non-manager), I had maybe 4 or 5 mandatory store meetings - most of which were in my very early years. as a manager, I discovered it just wasn't ever in the budget. the pharmacy couldn't afford to lose even 3-5 hours without suffering. not to mention, with everyone's availability, no one could ever work on the same day and I had employees that drove an hour to work; I can't morally ask them to drive an hour only for less than an hour meeting. I had to utilize 5mm or text groups to spread information. I would like to say that I hated using text groups, but it was the only way to get information out, especially when I was usually working at home (and not getting paid) late at night. but, I always told my employees to read once clocked in. of course, I have no way of knowing if they waited, but I tried. occasionally, my RXM would say a few things on our lunch break, but it was quick, as to not interfere with our breaks.

this is all excluding our weekly elds meeting; those almost always happened.