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TetraCubane t1_j0tmzgc wrote

Reply to comment by redditpharmacist in Thousands of NYC nurses begin vote to authorize strike: 'We were the heroes' by thonioand

I remember there was a plan on Reddit to do a national call out sick day either end of 2020 or 2021. I asked the local CVS guys about it and they were completely oblivious about it.

No walkout ever happened.

We need a national labor union for pharmacists. Not useless organizations like the APhA which are heavily influenced by the chains themselves.

Even the fucking state boards of pharmacy have members who are employed by the chains.

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mediocre_at_most t1_j0tv5bj wrote

After what I saw pharmacists go through at CVS, I can't understand how they don't all quit at once.

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TetraCubane t1_j0tvnmm wrote

Massive student loan burden.

Not everyone can get a job at a hospital and there are not enough jobs in the hospital. and they don’t give out business loans for opening a independent pharmacy to new grads with student loan debt and no established customer base.

Some are able to just hunker down, keep their head down and keep up with insane pressure and get through the day and then drink themselves to sleep. Soon after burning out a couple of years later.

Some know how to properly suck off corporate and then aim to climb into the district manager, regional manager role.

Walmart and Costco I’ve heard are decent.

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TetraCubane t1_j0ujjs5 wrote

Nah, hospitals are starting to offer more than retail, I’m making $160k as a hospital pharmacist. (Overnight though.)

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Jerund t1_j0ujqan wrote

Well that’s because you have pay differential probably. 10 hour shifts 4 days a week. Not too bad. 140k was during the pandemic. After this year, probably closer to 150k

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TetraCubane t1_j0uw8uv wrote

Yeah I get differential (10%). Health insurance, child care stipend, pension for just $125 a month union dues.

12 hour shifts x 7 days straight though. But then I’m also off for 7 days straight.

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Jerund t1_j0uwmg3 wrote

No pension for retail but decent match from employer. Health insurance plan is decent. You are also based in nyc? How’s the child care stipend?

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TetraCubane t1_j0v3yi1 wrote

Slightly north of NYC. Its the 1199 union.

I wanna say its about $500 a month, which is not much nowadays but almost no one else offers it.

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Ice_Business t1_j0xcirc wrote

I heard some chain pharmacies offering $49/hr to entry level pharmacists. That's less than what they were offering 10 years ago. The profession is in a sad state.

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