The recession has officially affected me...
- Thread starter Turk
- Start date
sucks dude, i am quite surprised you already might have had a pharmacy manager job though, thats crazy fast from what I hear, thought you needed to be on staff as a regular pharmacist for awhile. Why do you want to be a manager anyways? If its anything like osco, you don't get paid much more and its quite more headaches!
Guess its sad to see that even with how much the sector is growing, the shitty economy can still even effect pharmacy in terms of cuts and moving up.
Guess its sad to see that even with how much the sector is growing, the shitty economy can still even effect pharmacy in terms of cuts and moving up.
I guess I do good work. They send me to all the shitty stores to clean up the messes made there by the shitty pharmacists. If I got this managment spot, I'd be making about 30k more including the bonus. Big enough raise for me to want the spot.
That alone makes it worth the hours and hours of studying and sleepless nights along with paying a shitload for your education.
Not exactly. 1000 people "voluntarily" left Walgreens coporate over the last 2 weeks, and 1000 more will be involunitarily let go this month. I believe 02SSei was talking about his job possibly being in jeapordy because of cuts at his hospital.
I'm waiting for that next. Every week the CEO sends out a "letter" to the employees. 2 weeks ago he was reflecting on how Walgreens dealt with the great depression. He stated that back then, the company did a 10% pay decrease across the board. I don't think that will happen, but would really suck if it did.
i would picture walgreens as a whole more of a retail chain, as most of, if not all of their profits come from convience items sold there. That market, or retail in general, is hurting.
Now people popping pills to stay alive, that demand is steady. That is what you luckily got yourself into, and props to that too!
Dan on the other hand, i heard about that, and im not sure exactly what he does there...
I thought the same too, but I've been told numerous times by upper management that the majority of profit comes from pharmacy. I'm not sure about the exact numbers. Margins are getting smaller and smaller every year though, no doubt about that.
holy fuck its not even funny the PROFITS they make off of it... revenue, not as much as you would think, but damn, profit, you would think about opening up your own pharmacy these days...
just look at the 4 dollar generics that walmart etc are offering... they are still making a profit off those
kev, Profit = revenue - cost ....
and actually, they don't make much profit, if any at all. it brings people into their stores, with hope of them making other purchases, even other pharmaceutical purchases there. making the little or no profit from the cheap generics overseen. so it's a marketing scheem (not scam), those $4 or ive even seen free, generics...
sorry the revenue i was speaking of was comparing what the pharmacy brings in vs the store itself
at jewel-osco its pretty much 50/50 last I heard, where as with walgreens im sure the pharmacy is up on that deal
for the generics, some of those pills costs cents or fractions of cents to produce and we had one of my coworkers buy something generic at cost and it was like 21 cents for 30 tablets...
obviously brand drugs dont make as much even though they sell for much more, the generics is where its at for profit margins
on paper and % wise, per product the pharmacy has insane #s compared to the other items sold in the store, not matter where
at jewel-osco its pretty much 50/50 last I heard, where as with walgreens im sure the pharmacy is up on that deal
for the generics, some of those pills costs cents or fractions of cents to produce and we had one of my coworkers buy something generic at cost and it was like 21 cents for 30 tablets...
obviously brand drugs dont make as much even though they sell for much more, the generics is where its at for profit margins
on paper and % wise, per product the pharmacy has insane #s compared to the other items sold in the store, not matter where
There are days that i don't know what i do there. I'm a tech in the float pool at the hospital. Floors that don't have their own tech for a shift go to a staffing meeting each shift and fight over who gets to have one of us work on their floor so they can have adequate staffing. In turn i get paid more than the floor techs since i have no idea where I'm working until i get there and can be floated mid shift to any dept they choose. The medical field has been fucked for years due to medicare ass reaming hospitals on how much they are willing to pay and all sorts of loopholes that allow them to not pay at all. This current economic crisis is leading to more people being unemployed and not having health insurance so we have to deal with more medicare/medicaid patients and aren't compensated nearly as much by medicare/aid as we would be from patients who have private health insurance. I got a really informative email about this a month ago but no longer have it unfortunately. Bottom line, Healthcare jobs aren't going anywhere but a lot of corners are getting cut. Due to the fact that we are understaffed pretty frequently i don't think i am losing my job but i may be getting absorbed by a floor and losing a little bit of money and flexibility in how i am scheduled.
Thread Info
-
Created -
37Replies
-
856Views
-
Participants list
