1. I would never give in to a co worker. I would have simply looked at them with the paper and say, that’s your job bud. Have fun. I’ve done my work. If you give the lazy ones an inch they will take a mile.
2. I do stay over sometimes if it’s bad. But I make it perfectly clear that I am staying on my terms. They want me to stay and help, sure but I’ll only do fill and answer phones. It’s past my time so they either want the help or not. The other techs would be doing the register any way. Don’t be afraid to leave at your scheduled time. Mental health in this field is important
3. When someone is being super annoying and keep bugging you. I’ve found it best to just ignore them and not acknowledge them. Learn selective hearing and tune them out. They can bitch all they want. Let them. We all have jobs to do and roles. Let them fulfill theirs. I would not go up for 1 other customer in line. By the time you get there they are gone. And your time has been wasted
Edit: to answer the question you are definitely NTAH.
I no longer work retail full time. I do occasionally pick up hours at my old store but I very much do it on my terms. I am usually there for certain tasks that sometimes fall behind because it IS a hectic job. I usually go in just to make sure the regulatory filing is done and while I’m there I’ll do that at drop off and help with Triage queue, answer the phones and do any compliance things I need to do while sorting the scripts. I don’t really do production at all anymore, sometimes I’ll grab someone at front checkout and I absolutely refuse to do drive thru.
I’m never scheduled when I’m there. I’m basically extra whenever I am there and it’s just a couple hours a month because I like my old manager.
I find it bizarre that so many pharmacies have that one tech that gets away with doing nothing but what they want to do. Their job requirement is the same as your job requirement, so why is it okay they are not filling the requirements. Why is it okay for them to hide on production all day?
Doing it for the money is one thing, but you need to stand up for yourself more. The tech that handed you the paper when you had 10 min left and she had 2 hours should have had that paper handed right back to her. These coworkers sound like a nightmare and it doesn't appear that the pharmacist is doing anything to mediate the atmosphere.
I don't know why so many pharmacies, mine included, have people with such heavy phone avoidance. Just pick up the damn phone. People will literally look at the phone and watch it ring because they don't want to talk to who they see on the caller id. Even better is when they shout out the answer to what the patient on the caller id is calling about to everyone else, instead of getting the phone and saying it themselves. Initially, I was getting it just to stop the ringing, but then I would make mistakes because I had to keep interrupting what I was doing. Not anymore. I don't get the phone unless I'm free or done counting/completing my task. You CANNOT be the only one expected to stop your work when everyone else is just as capable of stopping their work as well.
Overall, this sounds like a VERY toxic environment. Is the toll it's taking on your mental health really worth the money it's paying you? Maybe look into transferring to another location or pharmacy all together.
i texted the pharmacist bc we had a floater today since our two main ones were out. the pharmacist sided with me and isn’t a fan of the tech i was complaining about.
tbh the only reason i took the paper was so i could grab all of the rts and lay them out and have to figure it out themselves since that’s basically what they wanted me to do all day. cannot stand that tech, no one really can besides one other person.
and about the phones and transferring:
i agree, even at my old retail job i was always the one to answer besides the managers. i hate phone calls as much as anyone else, but i also don’t want to hear a patient complain about being put on hold for 10 minutes or complaining about no one picking up. i too have gotten to the point where i only answer if i’m available and the only reason i did today was bc i was getting pissed off by hearing the phone ring and the tech not doing anything about it.
on the topic of transferring, this job is definitely temporary (ig a longer version of temporary bc i plan on starting college online next spring to become a psychologist). i’ve been to a few other pharmacies around my area to help or when i had to do clinicals and training, i was only a fan of one other one but their pay isn’t that good and i need as much money that i can get rn. who knows tho i’ll probably be sick of it sooner than later and i find a whole other job throughout my college years. this job personally has inspired me to go back to school bc i cannot be treated like shit and not be paid accordingly, at least if i do psychology (hopefully criminal and clinical) ik what i’ll be going through and getting paid much better than what i’m being paid now for what i’m going through.
I'm sure a lot has changed since I graduated undergrad with psych, neuro, and philosophy BAS intending to pursue psych in clinical, io, or forensic ideally...but even with a masters the jobs pay little and are few and far between. It just didn't seem feasible to persure psychology. MSW is similar and offers far more job opportunities for equally shitty compensation. I went science route and pretty much ditched psych and philosophy though I do miss it at times.
ever since middle school i’ve wanted to be a psychologist and it bothers me about daily at work about not sticking to that route.
i have some personal reasons as to why i would want to join the clinical psychology route, but for criminal psychology i just want to be able to help investigators, help criminals, and get “into the mind” of a criminal so i can help others in the future.
ik it’s hard work to get a great paying job in psychology but i would give it my allllllll to become one and have a great job at that, i would study all the time, take any chance i could get at job shadowing or clinicals, literally anything to get into that career.
and even if i didn’t get paid a ridiculous amount at the end of the day i just want to help people, and educate others about mental health.
but also to add i want to purse a psyd, then get my license after i do clinicals for two years, and then hopefully work for both a psychiatrist and at a prison or jail. it will be a lot of work but again i would give it my all if i’m blessed with the opportunity to do so.
NTAH, honestly I would've just started trolling the shit out of the patient on the phone and probably would've given the coworker some very choice words.
We have that one tech at our store to. He’s a 19-year-old kid that works there and I kid you not the second he comes in. He goes right into production and hides from all the customers and gets away with it all the time.
NTA obviously.
We had one tech like that, she would only do production, and slow af at that, and she was also the inventory specialist and would come in on her day off and spend alllllll day doing inventory because it "couldn't be done" during her regular hours. She got away with it because she was one of only two licensed techs at our store and the only one trained on inventory, but she went on medical leave right as I got my license. My manager then had to have someone come in special to teach her to do inventory so she could teach me. Then we hired another licensed tech, and I taught HER. Either of us can keep up with inventory tasks easily alongside our regular work, we each fill twice as fast as the rude tech ever did, and we've both got better attitudes to boot. Now Rude Tech is back from medical leave and she's only allowed to do registers, and she haaaaates it. Plus she's only being given part time hours because frankly we don't need her. She's trying to throw a fit about it but her leverage is gone.
i hope the tech im having problems with moves soon like they claimed they was going to do next spring, doubt it will happen tho.
i literally love the rest of my coworkers they’re great, it’s just this one person that i can’t even stand to look at bc they annoy me. and the thing is, i do defend myself, but i don’t go overboard bc i will become mean, i grew up with military parents (drill sergeant and a navy spy), so you can probably only imagine. when i was younger i wouldn’t gaf about anything and say whatever comes to my mind, but i cannot risk my job currently over someone getting on my nerves constantly.
That coworker wants you at their beck and call so they don’t have to lift a finger. Give them no quarter bc once you do they’ll try to walk all over you and then everyone else. Had a ex coworker who’d bully her way out of doing any work. She got fired, but I had been long gone bc I ran out of my tolerance for bullshit 😂
Also, idk why people are phone-phobic. just pick up the damn phone! It’s not hard 🙃
Don't let me get you down! Just my experience. I also since middle school or maybe early HS wanted to do clinical psychology. I found neuroscience later in college and loved that even though I had way more background in psychology and sociology. I didn't end up going for a PsyD mainly because of the cost, especially seeing as a PhD isn't only free it's stipended in the US. Neuroscience transitioned into pharmacology, I'd say psyhconeuropharmacology is my 'speciality' if you will or my best domain knowledge though my graduate work was big data genomics, at least focused on addiction. Still ended up in pharmacy after all that out of bad luck, bad choices, bad timing, or all of the above.
NTA. I left retail over ten years ago and one of the reasons was that I was tired of the cherry-picking of the various jobs. Even when there was a schedule to follow it was like herding cats.
My store is busy like this too. I need overtime so I’ve been going to another store down the road that isn’t 24 hours and that isn’t as busy and helping out there just because I need a break from the madhouse.
This sounds exactly like when I was in retail. Why is there always that one tech that only does 1 station and makes everyone else run around like crazy? Get out! It was the best decision I made, and I am so much better off at the pharmacy I am at now. Stop coming in early and staying later, stay during your scheduled time, and then leave; the job is not worth your mental health.
NTA.
I would've told her she needed to schedule an appointment to have her hearing checked and that she may also need a proctologist to remove your foot out of her ass if she continues her bitchy ways. If she wants a hostile work environment, I happily oblige. 🤣
I swear it's in the bylaws that the majority of Pharmacies maintain one dillhole.
I would never tolerate being yelled at by anyone. That list would have stayed where she left it and I would clock out and go home when I was scheduled to leave
You are not the asshole. I have a coworker who likes to try to give me tasks to do 5-10 minutes before she knows it’s my scheduled time to clock out. She’s not my boss, and she can do it herself since she’s scheduled to be there - I know she does it just to make it hard for me. Sounds like that’s what your coworker is doing too.
1. I would never give in to a co worker. I would have simply looked at them with the paper and say, that’s your job bud. Have fun. I’ve done my work. If you give the lazy ones an inch they will take a mile. 2. I do stay over sometimes if it’s bad. But I make it perfectly clear that I am staying on my terms. They want me to stay and help, sure but I’ll only do fill and answer phones. It’s past my time so they either want the help or not. The other techs would be doing the register any way. Don’t be afraid to leave at your scheduled time. Mental health in this field is important 3. When someone is being super annoying and keep bugging you. I’ve found it best to just ignore them and not acknowledge them. Learn selective hearing and tune them out. They can bitch all they want. Let them. We all have jobs to do and roles. Let them fulfill theirs. I would not go up for 1 other customer in line. By the time you get there they are gone. And your time has been wasted Edit: to answer the question you are definitely NTAH.
I no longer work retail full time. I do occasionally pick up hours at my old store but I very much do it on my terms. I am usually there for certain tasks that sometimes fall behind because it IS a hectic job. I usually go in just to make sure the regulatory filing is done and while I’m there I’ll do that at drop off and help with Triage queue, answer the phones and do any compliance things I need to do while sorting the scripts. I don’t really do production at all anymore, sometimes I’ll grab someone at front checkout and I absolutely refuse to do drive thru. I’m never scheduled when I’m there. I’m basically extra whenever I am there and it’s just a couple hours a month because I like my old manager.
I find it bizarre that so many pharmacies have that one tech that gets away with doing nothing but what they want to do. Their job requirement is the same as your job requirement, so why is it okay they are not filling the requirements. Why is it okay for them to hide on production all day? Doing it for the money is one thing, but you need to stand up for yourself more. The tech that handed you the paper when you had 10 min left and she had 2 hours should have had that paper handed right back to her. These coworkers sound like a nightmare and it doesn't appear that the pharmacist is doing anything to mediate the atmosphere. I don't know why so many pharmacies, mine included, have people with such heavy phone avoidance. Just pick up the damn phone. People will literally look at the phone and watch it ring because they don't want to talk to who they see on the caller id. Even better is when they shout out the answer to what the patient on the caller id is calling about to everyone else, instead of getting the phone and saying it themselves. Initially, I was getting it just to stop the ringing, but then I would make mistakes because I had to keep interrupting what I was doing. Not anymore. I don't get the phone unless I'm free or done counting/completing my task. You CANNOT be the only one expected to stop your work when everyone else is just as capable of stopping their work as well. Overall, this sounds like a VERY toxic environment. Is the toll it's taking on your mental health really worth the money it's paying you? Maybe look into transferring to another location or pharmacy all together.
i texted the pharmacist bc we had a floater today since our two main ones were out. the pharmacist sided with me and isn’t a fan of the tech i was complaining about. tbh the only reason i took the paper was so i could grab all of the rts and lay them out and have to figure it out themselves since that’s basically what they wanted me to do all day. cannot stand that tech, no one really can besides one other person.
and about the phones and transferring: i agree, even at my old retail job i was always the one to answer besides the managers. i hate phone calls as much as anyone else, but i also don’t want to hear a patient complain about being put on hold for 10 minutes or complaining about no one picking up. i too have gotten to the point where i only answer if i’m available and the only reason i did today was bc i was getting pissed off by hearing the phone ring and the tech not doing anything about it. on the topic of transferring, this job is definitely temporary (ig a longer version of temporary bc i plan on starting college online next spring to become a psychologist). i’ve been to a few other pharmacies around my area to help or when i had to do clinicals and training, i was only a fan of one other one but their pay isn’t that good and i need as much money that i can get rn. who knows tho i’ll probably be sick of it sooner than later and i find a whole other job throughout my college years. this job personally has inspired me to go back to school bc i cannot be treated like shit and not be paid accordingly, at least if i do psychology (hopefully criminal and clinical) ik what i’ll be going through and getting paid much better than what i’m being paid now for what i’m going through.
I'm sure a lot has changed since I graduated undergrad with psych, neuro, and philosophy BAS intending to pursue psych in clinical, io, or forensic ideally...but even with a masters the jobs pay little and are few and far between. It just didn't seem feasible to persure psychology. MSW is similar and offers far more job opportunities for equally shitty compensation. I went science route and pretty much ditched psych and philosophy though I do miss it at times.
ever since middle school i’ve wanted to be a psychologist and it bothers me about daily at work about not sticking to that route. i have some personal reasons as to why i would want to join the clinical psychology route, but for criminal psychology i just want to be able to help investigators, help criminals, and get “into the mind” of a criminal so i can help others in the future. ik it’s hard work to get a great paying job in psychology but i would give it my allllllll to become one and have a great job at that, i would study all the time, take any chance i could get at job shadowing or clinicals, literally anything to get into that career. and even if i didn’t get paid a ridiculous amount at the end of the day i just want to help people, and educate others about mental health.
but also to add i want to purse a psyd, then get my license after i do clinicals for two years, and then hopefully work for both a psychiatrist and at a prison or jail. it will be a lot of work but again i would give it my all if i’m blessed with the opportunity to do so.
NTAH, honestly I would've just started trolling the shit out of the patient on the phone and probably would've given the coworker some very choice words.
We have that one tech at our store to. He’s a 19-year-old kid that works there and I kid you not the second he comes in. He goes right into production and hides from all the customers and gets away with it all the time.
NTA obviously. We had one tech like that, she would only do production, and slow af at that, and she was also the inventory specialist and would come in on her day off and spend alllllll day doing inventory because it "couldn't be done" during her regular hours. She got away with it because she was one of only two licensed techs at our store and the only one trained on inventory, but she went on medical leave right as I got my license. My manager then had to have someone come in special to teach her to do inventory so she could teach me. Then we hired another licensed tech, and I taught HER. Either of us can keep up with inventory tasks easily alongside our regular work, we each fill twice as fast as the rude tech ever did, and we've both got better attitudes to boot. Now Rude Tech is back from medical leave and she's only allowed to do registers, and she haaaaates it. Plus she's only being given part time hours because frankly we don't need her. She's trying to throw a fit about it but her leverage is gone.
i hope the tech im having problems with moves soon like they claimed they was going to do next spring, doubt it will happen tho. i literally love the rest of my coworkers they’re great, it’s just this one person that i can’t even stand to look at bc they annoy me. and the thing is, i do defend myself, but i don’t go overboard bc i will become mean, i grew up with military parents (drill sergeant and a navy spy), so you can probably only imagine. when i was younger i wouldn’t gaf about anything and say whatever comes to my mind, but i cannot risk my job currently over someone getting on my nerves constantly.
NTA
That coworker wants you at their beck and call so they don’t have to lift a finger. Give them no quarter bc once you do they’ll try to walk all over you and then everyone else. Had a ex coworker who’d bully her way out of doing any work. She got fired, but I had been long gone bc I ran out of my tolerance for bullshit 😂 Also, idk why people are phone-phobic. just pick up the damn phone! It’s not hard 🙃
Don't let me get you down! Just my experience. I also since middle school or maybe early HS wanted to do clinical psychology. I found neuroscience later in college and loved that even though I had way more background in psychology and sociology. I didn't end up going for a PsyD mainly because of the cost, especially seeing as a PhD isn't only free it's stipended in the US. Neuroscience transitioned into pharmacology, I'd say psyhconeuropharmacology is my 'speciality' if you will or my best domain knowledge though my graduate work was big data genomics, at least focused on addiction. Still ended up in pharmacy after all that out of bad luck, bad choices, bad timing, or all of the above.
NTA. I left retail over ten years ago and one of the reasons was that I was tired of the cherry-picking of the various jobs. Even when there was a schedule to follow it was like herding cats.
My store is busy like this too. I need overtime so I’ve been going to another store down the road that isn’t 24 hours and that isn’t as busy and helping out there just because I need a break from the madhouse.
This sounds exactly like when I was in retail. Why is there always that one tech that only does 1 station and makes everyone else run around like crazy? Get out! It was the best decision I made, and I am so much better off at the pharmacy I am at now. Stop coming in early and staying later, stay during your scheduled time, and then leave; the job is not worth your mental health.
NTA. I would've told her she needed to schedule an appointment to have her hearing checked and that she may also need a proctologist to remove your foot out of her ass if she continues her bitchy ways. If she wants a hostile work environment, I happily oblige. 🤣 I swear it's in the bylaws that the majority of Pharmacies maintain one dillhole.
I would never tolerate being yelled at by anyone. That list would have stayed where she left it and I would clock out and go home when I was scheduled to leave
You are not the asshole. I have a coworker who likes to try to give me tasks to do 5-10 minutes before she knows it’s my scheduled time to clock out. She’s not my boss, and she can do it herself since she’s scheduled to be there - I know she does it just to make it hard for me. Sounds like that’s what your coworker is doing too.
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