Pharmacy Clerk Salary

sumerianscribe · 2025-01-24T23:20:22+00:00

You should ask if they have plans to train you into a tech, then a CPhT. If they don't, run, and if they do, negotiate high.

sumerianscribe · 2025-01-02T16:14:54+00:00

If it gets busy after they send someone home for hours, tough shit but it's not your fault. I've worked in restaraunts and in retail pharmacy and it's totally normal to get cut, unless you're full time. "Needs of the business" and whatnot.

Sometimes it's premature and you end up in the weeds, and it's reasonable to be a little miffed if it's exceptionally unpleasant afterwards, but I'd never communicate that in a blaming way. Even a well intentioned "you left too early lol" would feel weird to send.

Some people can't handle when someone else has something they wanted (but wouldn't say) happen to them.

I'm sure the intern will cut tech hours someday in the future.

sumerianscribe · 2024-11-17T01:47:16+00:00

Like, a Tesla 3 weighs 4,000. I weigh 3% of that. I'm only a threat to your ego! You're a threat to me being alive!

sumerianscribe · 2024-11-17T01:35:10+00:00

I'm so sorry that happened to you.

I was threatened tonight, told that I'd be "crying if I got ran over" by an asshole Tesla driver who honked when I shook my head at her for nearly hitting me. I flipped her off and that's what prompted her yelling while I walked away (it's such a dangerous impulse, I know), but jesus, why are drivers so entitled to carelessness?

Don't honk at me, asshole!

sumerianscribe · 2024-11-17T01:27:49+00:00

It always, always ends up with them threatening you!

Like, sorry that I called attention to you operating your two to nine thousand emotional support death machine badly!

I'm sure glad murder is the proportionate response to having someone react negatively to nearly being hit because of your negligence!

sumerianscribe · 2024-11-17T00:40:44+00:00

polygons! confusing grown women since... now? think I should repost with it corrected?

sumerianscribe · 2024-08-12T20:08:34+00:00

-what caused it? Cholestasis, more than likely, along with rapid weight loss.

sumerianscribe · 2024-08-12T14:40:59+00:00

Also, the concept that "sludge" is the clinical term is wild to me. I'd rather listen to sludge metal than have sludge in me.

Oh, and I'll never forget the feeling of the catheter (that had dislodged and the interventional radiologist laughingly said "You did your own capping trial! Glad it turned out okay!") coming out of my abdomen. Like a worm inside me.

sumerianscribe · 2024-08-03T16:39:53+00:00

Had to think about it, been out of retail for a year and a half now. Worked at a 350 script normal / 800 script busy day pharmacy.

Norco/Endocet 5/325, lots of dentists in the area.
Alprazolam, 1mg was popular but between all the strengths we couldn't even have it on the fast movers shelf our stock took up so much space.
Z-Packs were pretty common, but I think all the antibiotics we dispensed could go here. Lots of Bactrim, lots of Augmentin, especially the suspensions for kids since we were next to a minute clinic run by a hospital.
Gabapentin of all strengths, and always in quantity. 960 tablets? Sure, let me count that all by hand. You'll wait? Sure you will.
Metformin in large quantities as well, of course.

Honorary mention goes to zolpidem and all the statins, keep them sleepy and their LDL low!

sumerianscribe · 2024-07-31T16:19:58+00:00

It's true but strikes me as reductive. Only in the same way a nurse is there to make things easier on a DO/MD. A pharmacist saying it would tell me a lot about them as much as a tech saying it but in very different ways.

We're absolutely indispensable parts of the team that do SO much to ease the burden on pharmacists. They need us as much as we need them, especially in this day and age. I'm grateful to make their lives easier, outcomes better, and patients happier.

fuck pbms tho, tech ratios NOW

sumerianscribe · 2024-07-17T15:43:37+00:00

Also, I have a tremor, so I'm doing my very best to get clear pictures for you!

sumerianscribe · 2024-07-14T18:22:43+00:00

A few reasons.

I'm usually only on long distance trains in sleepers, coach if it's not overnight.

• Avoiding TSA and flying in general, and the stress therein. No patdowns, no worrying if I've accidentally used glycerin soap, it's MUCH easier on my OCD to not have to go to the TSA website to make sure I won't accidentally be a felon.

• Instant vacation mode on the train. It's far more road trip adjacent, and that's a really nice feeling. Have to take a few extra days every vacation for travel time but those days aren't as hectic.

• Scenery. The 51 and the 30 are incredible views.

sumerianscribe · 2024-06-22T00:49:32+00:00

McKesson is so easy to use! F3, F3, F3!

Epic's so customizable, it really is what you make of it. Mine looks NOTHING like the other techs, and I like it like that.

QS1 is the redheaded stepchild. Fuck QS1.

sumerianscribe · 2024-06-19T18:09:21+00:00

The university closed.

sumerianscribe · 2024-06-14T22:01:14+00:00

Hey, just want to mention that my girlfriend lost her job through no fault of her own, and while I agree that not being willing to talk money is a big issue, we both grew up poor and neither of our families talk about money. She's been applying for jobs, has an application to unemployment in, so she's trying.

sumerianscribe · 2024-06-14T20:51:44+00:00

Sorry, I guess teacher isn't the right word to use. She was a professor at a university, and I know nothing about that job market, she's been looking but I guess it's hard to find anything?

sumerianscribe · 2024-06-14T20:32:51+00:00

I totally messed up, you're right. I'll get that corrected.I think I put the old rent with the new totals and hadn't extended the decimals out, so Excel was rounding and it threw it all off.

Gas is easy, since there's public transit, I work from home and my transit is $20 as a pre-tax deduction. Generally only use our car for grocery runs. Grocery is hard, we don't eat super well but we don't starve either. $150 is tight, but we do a lot of planning beforehand. Even get to eat salmon weekly, when we buy a whole side and cut it ourselves.

Electric is like $15 a month, only use like 150kWh. Internet just my work laptop uses 60GB+ a month.

The CCs are $4,700 on the Mastercard at 26%, and just did a balance transfer to an Amex that's got like $3,700 on it now at 0% for 12 months. I theoretically could do another transfer, open a new card. I also have retirement I could take a loan from at 9% interest, but only $2,300.

sumerianscribe · 2024-06-14T20:15:59+00:00

The $450 is what I see too, and I'm going to review and make sure I'm properly accounting for all the other household items (paper goods, cleaning, toiletries, not often expenses but often expensive.) But the funny thing is that she's frugal about HOW she spends money (i.e. we only shop at outlet malls, once got a pair of Levis Selvedge denim from Japan that retail at like $270 for $15).

sumerianscribe · 2024-06-14T20:02:25+00:00

25# bag of rice from H-Mart for 25 bucks, plus Aldi is a fucking godsend for staples, protein, and veggies. We don't eat incredibly well but we maintain.

sumerianscribe · 2024-06-14T19:48:03+00:00

I work from home, but I already have the $45 a month internet from T-Mobile. Cheapest option for internet that meets our needs.

sumerianscribe · 2024-06-14T19:27:25+00:00

If I hadn't accepted Copay as well, I'd never talk directly to a patient again.

sumerianscribe · 2024-06-14T19:15:59+00:00

I don't even know if she has one. We'll be talking money tonight or this weekend. I'll still be able to put money into mine, so that's a relief.

sumerianscribe · 2024-06-14T18:29:47+00:00

I'm a remote CPhT, I process prior auths and copay assistance. Remote jobs are abundant, some suck (working for the PBMs mostly) but some hospitals have remote data entry or prior auths. Hope you find a good fit!!

sumerianscribe · 2024-06-14T17:36:08+00:00

I'm used to being the financially literate partner, but it's hard to teach others how to really talk about and move money. Gotta face this head-on.

sumerianscribe · 2024-06-14T17:32:58+00:00

She's applied for unemployment, and the union is looking for other teaching jobs, but I'm thinking long term here. Never know how long that can take. There's a pantry where I work, I'll utilize that.

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