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Working as a pharmacy technician I’ve never been more depressed in my life.

I work at a large pharmacy chain. My store is a 24 hour pharmacy. Every single day I think of a new reason I could report my boss. She has made remarks about trans customers, called a coworker a slut, is only hiring from her church, told me it didn’t matter that I wasn’t comfortable vaccinating someone after she lied about my training to get me certified, deletes scripts when it’s “too busy”, made fun of someone for “being too autistic”, etc etc. I could go on. But I’m at a pharmacy that doesn’t care. People have reported her. She is apparently too good of a pharmacist to punish. So every day is a hostile work environment. Besides that, two of our stores have closed in this town. We are filling 1,000 scripts a day with barely any staff. We are behind hours every single day. Thus, every single day,…


I work at a large pharmacy chain. My store is a 24 hour pharmacy. Every single day I think of a new reason I could report my boss. She has made remarks about trans customers, called a coworker a slut, is only hiring from her church, told me it didn’t matter that I wasn’t comfortable vaccinating someone after she lied about my training to get me certified, deletes scripts when it’s “too busy”, made fun of someone for “being too autistic”, etc etc. I could go on. But I’m at a pharmacy that doesn’t care. People have reported her. She is apparently too good of a pharmacist to punish. So every day is a hostile work environment. Besides that, two of our stores have closed in this town. We are filling 1,000 scripts a day with barely any staff. We are behind hours every single day. Thus, every single day, at least one person yells or cusses at me for it. I’m just defeated. I work so hard to come in and get yelled at. That’s all I am. A drive through face to tell you your medicine isn’t ready after waiting for 6 hours so come back in an hour and hope it’s done by then. Tonight, we had 10 calls all night. 3 staff. Drive thru, pick up, and the floater pharmacist doing everything else. How are we expected to have a chance? Corporate does not care. I’m getting paid less than $17 an hour to deal with this. It’s just insane. Almost half the coworkers that worked here a year ago have left. It’s paying for my school. I don’t have any other way to pay my bills and get tuition remission. I can’t afford to quit if I want my degree so I can really get out of here. But I’m afraid of how depressed I am getting. So. Please treat your pharmacy staff with kindness y’all. We are trying.

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