finally free
i’ve resisted from posting on here prior to this moment because i didn’t want there to be any possible way for me to get reprimanded or fired if my store manager found out it was me. but now? i’m freeeeeee, SO free!! i worked at WAGS for about 2 years previously as a pharmacy technician. Admittedly, my attendance was not great… but geez who can blame me when the store management sucked ass and constantly got onto specifically me for every. single. little. thing?! things that, mind you, everyone else was doing and never got a single talking to about it.
it was a very personal vendetta against me, so after 2 years and me moving an hour and a half away, i quit.
wellllll i moved back. and i somehow convinced myself that working at walgreens wasn’t as bad as maybe i had made it out to be previously. boy oh boy was i wrong. i should’ve watched my snapchat memories ranting videos for a bit longer. i got rehired by the same store manager that HATED me and i couldn’t understand why she would allow me back considering how much she couldn’t stand my guts. but i am a very hard worker, and enjoyed doing all the tasks that nobody else wanted to do. i consistently scored great on my reviews and all of the customers loved me, so did the rest of my coworkers.
upon working there again for about a month, i realized the reason why she hired me back was to make me even more miserable than the first time. i told myself i would be more reliable and consistent with good attendance this time around and i genuinely gave my best effort despite my quickly declining mental health. but when my physical health started taking a toll, everything went down hill. i worked there for about 6 months and thats when i started getting dizzy periodically (only at work) and profusely sweating even when everyone else was shivering cold. my RXOM told me to go check my blood pressure after she noticed how hot i was and it was SKYROCKET high. she got me to sit for a while and take a 15. we rechecked it and to our surprise there was no change. mind you, when i’m not at work i have NO issues with BP. whatsoever.
she told me to go to the ER. i did. the following days i tried going back to work but with no medication being prescribed to me until a PCP appointment, i was running into the same problem of feeling faint and nauseous. During this time, our new DM visited our store. i’m assuming my store manager told him nasty things about me because he targeted me with a billion questions and stood over my shoulder as i made PCP calls. mind you, all of my coworkers including my RXOM knew that the store manager hated me and nobody really knew why, including myself. the day after our DM visit, our SM came up to me and in a very snarky tone started talking to me about asking for surveys from our customers. i finally lost my shit. as pharmacy technicians, we have SO MANY other things to worry about and complete in such a short amount of time and with NO staff, that surveys are the last thing i was worried about.
i decided to finally speak my mind and have a convo with my SM. we went to the back and i called her out for her personal issues against me. she’s a miserable bitch who enjoys making everyone else miserable (misery loves company) and i told her that i wanted to resolve the issue professionally so that we could coexist even if she still didn’t like me. she laughed in my face (very professional of her) and insisted there was no issue… again, EVERYONE could tell she obviously had one with me. she gaslit me and instead of fixing anything told me that if she had any issues with me going forward she would go through my RXOM. i said that sounded like a fantastic idea.
the next day i had 2 days off. not a single time did i have to take blood pressure medication or even monitor it. no issues whatsoever with my health. and that’s when i finally decided to prioritize myself and my health especially after the convo with her bc i came to the conclusion that the job and management were going to end up killing me if i didn’t kill myself first. on my 2nd day off, i quit. i texted my RXOM and explained. she said she understood completely and that im a great tech that will go far in life.
i say all this to say, there are so many of you out there working for WAGS that KNOWWWW how toxic of an environment it can be. you know the toll its taking on your health. you know how mentally exhausting it is. take the leap and LEAVE. i promise you it is worth it. and maybe one day they’ll recognize the shitty people they have in charge are only hurting the company, not helping. but by then, you’ll be doing way better off working somewhere that actually values you as an employee but also a human being.