TLDR: Pharm tech, worked for hell on earth pharmacy that treated me like a robot and escaped to a wonderful new job. Mean pharmacist from hell job now coming to work in the new awesome pharmacy. Scared to death she’s gonna ruin everything.
Ok! So, a little backstory, I’m a pharmacy technician that used to work for Walgreens. It was hell there and I have never felt so dehumanized in my life. It’s like the moment I started working there, terrible shit happened.
My partner got diverticulitis (an infection in your lower intestines) and was hospitalized/ had to go to the er several times before he eventually had 2(!!) of these infections as well as a foot of his colon removed.
Of course because of this, I had to miss a lot of work and one of the times he got discharged, work wouldn’t let me leave to help him home because we were understaffed. This pharmacist (the one now coming to my amazing new job) berated me and basically called me a child for wanting to dip out to help my partner home. She had the gall to tell me she wouldn’t leave to take her husband home?? So my partner ended up TAKING THE BUS HOME after he got out from the hospital just having a bad infection and having to be on IV antibiotics!
Beyond that, that job really was fucked. We techs constantly joked about how overworked and burnt out we were with covid testing and shots. We would process 30 tests a day and do like 50-60 shots ON TOP of the 300+ med scripts and constant patients at the counter and drive. It was so bad I would go into the testing room and cry my stress out before being screamed at by patients again.
Most of the people working there were kind so I stuck it out despite all the shit just destroying my mental health.
I finally said enough was enough after covid tore through our staff and 2 people I worked closely with and talked pretty much face to face with got omnicron. We all tested and got negative but I was so scared because I’d felt so sick lately and knew at that time, omnicron wasn’t as easily detected by swab tests.
So to protect everyone, I self isolated in the testing room and ran covid tests while either waiting for mine to process or to get mine in line. I’d already told the management I wasn’t feeling good and was nervous I had covid but all they cared about was that negative test.
Another coworker came into the testing room while I was waiting for my throat swab test to process and was screaming at me about ‘how I was hiding in here instead of working’ and I snapped. I was trying to protect people instead of possibly infecting and killing them!!!
I got a negative but brought up to my lead tech that I wasn’t feeling good and wanted to go home to rest and test again when I came back in next just to make sure everyone was safe. Her exact words were ‘it’s Monday, I can’t just let you go home’.
I left at lunch after texting my partner about everything and texted my boss and lead tech that I wasn’t feeling well and wasn’t going to risk anyone. I didn’t plan on quitting them but with how terrible everything about that day was and the past 6 hellish months? I sent a long text to the manager explaining everything and telling her sorry but I couldn’t work there anymore if I wasn’t respected as a person and not have my and everyone else’s safety a higher priority.
Now to the present. I work in a smaller pharmacy now doing medication packs for live in facilities and my life is 1000% better. I’m treated like a human and love my job despite how busy I can be. It’s a totally different atmosphere.
Except, one of the pharmacists I worked with at Walgreen’s is now coming to work in the pharmacy as the part time pharmacist. The only who basically trash talked me for caring about my partner’s health and well being. (Not to mentions she doubted my adhd, that I have an official diagnosis for, because ‘I don’t act like her kid does’ wtf)
I’m terrified she’s going to tell my current boss that I quit with no notice (I lied and said I did because I didn’t want to tell them at was jobless at the time) and ruin everything for me. Or treat me like shit because of everything that happened there.
I’m trying to remain hopeful that maybe once she’s out from all the stress Walgreen’s put her through (I only heard worse and worse things once I left) that she’ll be nicer? I’m finally not su*cidal daily anymore and I’m actually happy about my future for once…. I just don’t want to lose my job because she tells my boss all these nasty things about me.
I’m sorry for the long post I’m just so anxious about it all and I’m wondering if I’m over thinking things?