I worked for an independent pharmacy for 8 years. My last job title there was supervising pharmacist. I left in May to move out of state. After the move, I had a few technicians and patients telling me about the awful things one of the owners was saying. It started out with stuff about how he wanted kill me and went as far to say he would like to get a witch doctor to keep me alive as he tortured me. Those who told me were very uncomfortable with these statements, which is why they told me. Now, I’m hearing stuff about how he’s making up lies about me. He’s even voluntarily make these statements in front of patients. They’re not overhearing anything, this is being directly said to them. It’s bad enough where a few of them have gone to my parents and mentioned how they missed me there, are transferring out of the pharmacy, and even how my parents need to transfer their stuff too. One of my technicians mentioned defamation and how I should take action. So I’m not sure if this is something worth taking further action with, or if I should just move on with life and ignore it?