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Originally Posted by admin  Hi All,
This week I am working Mon, Tues, Thurs and Friday. It takes me about 45mins to drive to where I am working, and obviously back again.
The shop opens at 8.30am and closes at 6.30pm. If I am lucky I get to eat my lunch, today with just three interruptions. The dispensary does not stop for a lunch break, so it depends on customer numbers if you get one or not.
So I have to get up about 6.30am, and I get back home at 7.15pm. I know being a locum that I did not have to accept the booking, but I did so have to honour it.
Do other people do hours like this? How do you cope? Am I just too old, or do others find this sort of work hard too? |
Admin,
You have just described the entire community pharmacy sector in the US. Long days, no lunch break, abuse, commutes, etc. I would say stop this, in mass, if you can before it reaches proportions such as here. If you throw in multiple insurance companies of which you must call all day to work out billing issues, constant telephone interruptions, abusive clients, not able to take vacation even when you have days, and finally drive-thru windows....you now have our community/chain pharmacy system in the U.S. Do not take the abuse or let corporate decisions drive pharmacy practice or it will end up like this (because many pharmacists here took it for years and now it is accepted practice). Some companies even offer the "lunch break" as an incentive to work for them, as a benefit......I don't know of any other profession here where this happens.