[Sir_Dispensalot]

sorry if i seemed a bit harsh on my eariler post - i just hate militant staff and went through a similar situation to you, imagine - for me, the militant ones buggered off (amazing how the script figures and atmosphere vastly improved afterwards!) and i ended up jiggling my own contract around so i could run the branch on the saturdays solo until i got a saturday person in (turned out to only be three weeks! The job centre can be handy sometimes, as long as they remember when you tell them the position is filled). Then i advertised two separate p/time jobs during the week covering the militants old hours. The new recruits turned out to be excellent, hardworking members of staff instead of lazy, militant buggers who think they're untouchable because they've been working there since year dot.

But that's certainly not to say that all long-term dispensers are militant lazy buggers - some of the best i've worked with are really hardworking, have done their job for 10 years or more and most of them could easily sail through a pharmacy degree themselves...