[SolomonQ]

it would take atleast double of what lloyds are normally offering for me to be employed by them, the way they behave towards their employees especially the pharmacist and pharmacy staff is despicable, abviously I would not expect anything less from a company whose moto is "Customers First", note the word "customer" it makes apparent what the company is about, not patients but customers.

I and many other people on this forum "complain" about patient, people treating pharmacies like shops, well it's because of companies like Lloyds that, that happens.

Ive locumed for this company and I dont like what I see, and the saying "customer is always right" is an understatement in their case, one customer complaint and your gona be having a phone call from the superintendent's office. It took me a few days of contemplation to grasp the full stupidity of the situation, relating to an a "incident" that occured while I was locuming for Lloyd's. At most I would have expected to have had a call from the area manager, wanting to know the full situation and then if anything offering me the support, instead call from the head office trying to influence me to give out a POM without a Rx, because of a cock up they had made on a previous day. Not allowed to go back to any Lloyds pharmacy under the care of that locum co-ordinator, lost a few bookings also from the same region, all because I operated as a pharmacist.

Also as a locum one has to beware, if anything goes wrong, the staff will blame it on the locum, always, and the relevant people will believe them. The pharmacy staff seem to enjoy this kinda of power, ive heard many comments from some along the lines of "we've made sure they (the locum) never come back here" , also any dispute with the customer, "you're always in the wrong", so if you wanna work in that area you have two choices: go against all you professional and ethical beliefs and comply with the patient or stand your ground and prepare to never work in that area again.

finally, as a pharmacist I would never work for Lloyds, (i'm too dominant and probably end up getting sacked cos i would do what I think best and not give a hoot about the area manager, they give you MUR targets in a pharmacy where you hardly have time to breathe all day), but as a pre-reg I think its fine, they pay decent, the "course" keeps you on your toes, you get to know about all these enhanced services etc..(although they are only doing it for the money), plus you will get to know from experience NOT TO WORK FOR Lloyds!!!!

Anyone got anything on boots?