*thank you amen 🙏🏼*

STOP trying to force the pharmacy to support and make the entire store Profitable. Why are you closing stores? Corporate does Not understand the job responsibilities. Maybe some executives need to observe, question and understand the pharmacies requirements.

Amen 🙏 very well said

Facts I’ll Get paid in xan bars lol

Lotsss of Stresss!!!!

Well said!!! I don’t blame them for walking out. That’s the way I feel and I work in education!!!

I absolutely agree with you!!! Even though it is rewarding to work in education, I’m starting to feel that it is not worth the emotional, psychological, and financial stress that educators have deal with on a daily basis!!!!

its understaffed on purpose. companies can increase staff they choice not to because it cuts into the bottom line.

As for the parking lot, that wouldn’t be Walgreens issue, it would be the property’s landlord issue (most of all retail stores are on leased buildings/ property’s so it’s on the landlord to make sure it gets plowed as well as any maintenance issues with the buildings. All the stores can do is put in “tickets” for corporate to contact the landlord about it. But in the winter months I’m sure the landlord as a contract with a plowing company to take care of it during the day/night to come through every so often to plow and salt/sand the parking lots snd sidewalks. Never see the employees out there plowing or shoveling the parking lots, they’re too busy taking care of customers in the stores and such.

Did you quit and have money saved up?

@@elonblake9141 like 3,00 which isn’t much in this economy. But even if you don’t have money saved stay until you find another job, then quit ASAP that’s what I would do for previous jobs I hated

You make excellent points, however, the reason why it is critical for pharmacists to not be overwhelmed and overworked pertains to the general population. Millions of Americans, including myself, take medication and giving someone the wrong medication could be a deadly situation if the pharmacists are burnt out🥺

The situation with your son sounds like it was an insurance issue. That is not the fault of the pharmacy.

You are crazy. They are making sure that people don’t die.

In a retail setting? We lack the capability to automate all the things a pharmacist does. Specific examples- Giving immunizations, we don't have safe machines to mix, administer, and check and verify all appropriate immunizations the patient is getting that day. 2. Make a professional judgement call about what's reasonable for a patient's medicine-for example cross-sensitity for antibiotics, where a patient profile says allergic to penicillin and they get amoxicillin, pharmacist calls doctor to get new script, doctor states patient got amoxicillin in hospital, and patient was fine, just had diarrhea, pharmacist documents that and talks to patient, patient confirms they're willing to take amoxicillin since it's not a true allergy if it's diarrhea. Automating all that with a computer to talk to everyone in that process would be insane, and the more overrides you allow for automated safety systems the more you open up the risk for patients to get hurt when they don't understand risk. 3. Recognizing through professional judgment what drug interactions are serious, and which are just book interactions. Filling softwares automatically flag every drug interaction on file, and then the pharmacist looks to know if these are serious interactions that need documentation to proceed forward with dispensing, or if these interactions just require greater care when counseling patients. 4. Counseling patients- making sure people understand their medicine and it's side effects can't be automated, otherwise it would have been by now. Too much of the populace has too little understanding of health and medicine to standardize a robot to talk to them about side effects and what not to take. Then the patient has specific questions that you can't account for everything within the programming to have a good response, or good patient interactions. Look at robo phone lines to see a modern example of robotic interactions that are really difficult for people. Putting that as the last-line before a patient gets their medicine and potentially gets the wrong medicine, or doesn't understand how to avoid lethal side effects, or which side effects to look out for, will get patients hurt or worse killed. There's a few of the really challenging things to automate just in a retail pharmacy setting. I'm not saying we'll never be able to automate things that pharmacist do, but currently we would need some high level AI capable of making complex and nuanced decisions for patient care while also staying as efficient as a human with processing multiple hundreds of prescriptions a day. And you'd need that at every store across the country before pharmacists would be useless. There's some other stuff I can think of too, but those oftentimes boil down to fixing other mistakes like how computers auto-fill prescriptions and get stuff wrong all the time or the doctor writes the script wrong, or in a way that makes the comuter not understand (writing "one" for the quantity of an inhaler when it's actually an 8.5gram weight inhaler, so that has to say 8.5 for quantity dispensed) but those types of errors could more easily be theoretically optimized so I just figured it'd fit the example to give the more difficult to optimize tasks as examples.

You can't be serious.