So I’m a retail pharmacist. I worked for a company I loved for 8 years and some shit happened where I got completely fucked in a shit situation and got the ole termination after 2 weeks of fucking deliberation… anyway, I couldn’t find another opportunity in the location we lived. as the main bread earner between my wife and I, we decided to reach out further and I ended up finding (what I thought) was a great opportunity about 3 hours away. We move. My wife is a nurse so she would have no issue finding a job in our new location as we looked in that area for her before pulling trigger on new job opportunity. We agree to make the move and it was to a location we really love (the beach). So I walk in on day one at new company and I see within 5 minutes I had been “swindled and pimped” you could say. The place was a disaster and I learned that multiple people before me had come and gone. The manager was a total fucking tool and the pay was shit compared to what I had before but I needed something to provide for my family. Within 2 months I got a call from the company I currently work for who offered me way more pay for what essentially was a demotion from my role at the swindled and pimped place. It was a no brainer. Now I knew it wasn’t going to be the best place for my mental health but I was already in a bad bad place and it’s still better to this day. However my boss gets threatened by his boss on the daily about getting things done and meeting metrics and literally not giving a fuck about the patients. And just as the shit place before, not a lot of hours given and expected (more like demanded) to keep up with an insane workload. Every other day is stressful and I have had a few of my worst days in my career at this location being just me and one other person for hours trying to take care of 500 RX. Don’t worry, I don’t work for free. I never stay over or come in early. I work my exact hours because they dgaf about me and I’m not giving them anything more. So there is a local grocery chain in my area who is a much better company, named one of the best places to work year after year. It’s actually employee owned. Even a part time bagger earns stock yearly. They have more help in the pharmacy, when I talk to them (which is on a daily basis) they never seem overly stressed and answer the phone quickly where there are times where we can’t answer the phone at my current workplace due to staffing issues. And that is not fair to patients or doctors offices that need to get ahold of us. I just got an offer. It’s a bit of a pay cut but the mental health aspect is my main concern. My 2 biggest worries are: am I jumping companies too much? I mean if you knew this area and the kind of work conditions I know not a single person would blame me but I lost my good job last June. This would be the 3rd new job in a year but this is somewhere I see myself long term but I feel just nervous switching so much and that looking bad but it shouldn’t matter if I plan to stay at new company for as long as possible, right? and we have a toddler and will lose insurance for 3 months (my wife is also starting a new job next week because her boss is a bitch who overloads her with patients) so can I get CHIP for him even though we make decent money? Fucking insurance tied to job BS..
I guess I’m just looking for encouragement. I like the people I currently work with at my store but the whole corporate greed of this company who has a monopoly on healthcare treats everyone like shit. I never saw myself here long term but the new job I have an offer for is certainly some place I see myself. I feel bad putting my current team in a bind but I have to do what I gotta do, right?