r/WalgreensRx

Anyone that’s thinking about wanting to become a pharmacist with Walgreens and want to pretend I referred you? Lmao. I need that $10,000 🤣

I’ve work at Walgreens for 4 years now and been in the pharmacy for 2. I have dealt with a range of customers and none of them ever bothered me until today.
For context I’ve always drawn smiley faces or little stars whenever I do double counts, I’ve done it for 2 years and everyone in the pharmacy loves them.

Not a single customer complained about them until recently when my pharmacist informed me i can no longer do them due to someone saying “it was unprofessional” and “it seems like yall are playing back there instead of working”. He doesn’t want to risk having that customer report me to district and have me fired so I completely understand.

However it just left me feeling crushed, and I actually started to tear up a bit. I feel stupid because this would make me cry and not something realistic such as a customer tearing me down or being threaten to get jumped.

I still like my job though, my team is very supportive and they’re helping me out whenever I start pharmacy school soon. This was just bothering me today.

If any pharmacists can shine some light on what they have been offered for retention packages. I'd imagine it will vary by location but I'm curious to what I should be expecting.

hello, sorry for the vague title but i am a new pharmacy cashier hire. my first shift was last Thursday and my next two shifts are tomorrow and monday but i have been given no instruction on what exactly i’m doing. the entirety of my first shift was doing elearnings and the only people that i know/ have met were the store manager and my direct manager, both of whom are not going to be present the next two shifts i am working. i assume tomorrow will also be completing elearnings as i have about 40 more to the 80 that i was initially assigned. my main concern is i’m not exactly sure who to report to as i haven’t met any of the other managers. maybe it’ll be fine tomorrow but i just feel confused as i was given no clear direction to what i’ll be doing and who i’ll be reporting to. fyi this is my first job so it might not be that deep but i don’t want to go to my second day all confused.

i swore id never post here but i gotta complain. i dont care to celebrate the 4th at all + i have a concert tmr that i asked off to attend so i didnt request off today, but i think they accepted everyone else’s time off requests leaving me as the only tech until 10pm. mind u i still only have my trainee license and haven’t been certified. also, MPD, PERX, as well as GOODRX and FMLWZ have all been timed out since 1am at my store and have yet to come back up. wish me luck gang 😭

edit: my only silver lining is i am currently on my lunch before the opener leaves lmao.

I hope this helps someone!

When this link is opened on a PC in the pharmacy, Ctl+P will produce a well-formatted printout to post in the pharmacy each day.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GZy6Pne5F\_M8Wsrncm4FkQQOLoogPUJymo\_OXusv5EY/edit?usp=drivesdk

Calling to see if someone wants to book a flu shot > 1 month before we even have them? Do they think they are going to run out? I just don't get the concept of making an appointment for something you can walk in any time and get in like 10 min. Genuinely trying to understand what the strategy could be. I would think the focus should be on locking down the clinics / health events etc early since that's what really moves the needle. Customers are literally laughing at us for calling about this.

I’m a pharmacy intern and I’ve been floating a lot this summer (I’ve been to about 5 different stores so far) since i couldn’t get full time at my home store. A problem that has occurred is that apparently when i do bag checks at the other stores, the system says I never did a bag check. Has anyone else run into this problem or have any ideas as to why this might be happening?

I genuinely believe that GLP-1s are altering the brains of someone these patients because they come in ready to fight if god forbid we dont have their specific dosage of GLP-1, or go forbid their Mounjaro isnt $0. I genuinely am shocked because somone sat at our drive thru, accused me of theft of her glp-1 coupon (it wasnt even an active coupon), and then after an hour of back and forth at the drive thru, insurance told us the program she was talking about… wasnt active until august… and they didnt tell the patient… but the sheer furiousity needs to be studied. same with another patient that called me a dumb idiot saying i didnt know what i was doing when i told him when i ran his insurance, his insulin was a higher price… “[Brand name insulin] is cheap to make, you are mistaken and must be new my friend”… you might be asking why may it have increased in price…. he swapped insurances 🙂. he swapped insurances and insurance only covered one at a time rather than a 3 month… and they dont cover the brand name…. i understnad the struggles of diabetes considering im pre diabetic and have grand parents i had to fetch insulin for… but its getting to a point where these glps are making some of these patients feral… oh yeah, the price insurance was able to bring her mounjaro to was…. $70. an hour argument over $70 mounjaro.

Will someone go over what to do with the bin rec reports. I got shown by someone that didn't really know either (they admitted it....I'm not just throwing it out there) and now my RXOM thinks I should be responsible to do it going forward. I think I'm all set on how to navigate on the handheld. Just at a loss once I have the paperwork in front of me. Any info on the process, tips and tricks is appreciated!! Thank you!!

Is ESI down? They say no. But. Paid Cigna. Tricare. All of which ESI processes are not going through

I have been working at Pharmacy over a year now and theyre cutting hours like always. So we made our vaccine goal and they said we will be getting hours but i feel like the other techs are getting their hours and theyre just giving me the leftovers. I call them pity hours . I never call off or be late . I always come in on my days off. I just feel like I dont like being used like this and I will be putting my two weeks in . Anyone ever went through this ?

Our SM just handed us these. I really wonder how many people are going to be patient enough to actually wait out the second PA needed for their insurance to go through to have their $50 copay. What is WAG getting out of this? If anyone had any insight as to why this is a thing please let me know!

I got an offer from my DM for $23.90. However I already make $22.13 as SR Pharmacy Technician and am also an Immunizer so I get PM's for every vaccine I do. And I do a good bit of vaccines every week. I was expecting a lot more, especially since I already know the previous room was making $27.13/hr when she left. She left to take RXOM at another store who is struggling and got another raise out of the deal. I'm struggling to accept the offer because it doesn't feel like an adequate increase given all the additional responsibilities that will be piled on me. Does anyone know if their offer is normal or am I being low balled here? I really feel like I am...

I checked in a walk in vaccination yesterday, manually entered it in the scheduler. I don’t think the VIS was signed as there was a difficult patient I dealt with when they headed to the immunization area to wait. By the time the line had died down the immunization patient had left.

The pharmacist took over once the leaflet was checked out. When I tried to go back I don’t see the option to print the form and now hours had passed I don’t remember the name (or other info besides which vaccine). What do I do? I am having panics right now especially since this is only the 2nd time I checked someone in.

When billing for GLP bridge for the member ID are we supposed to be using their Red/white/blue card ID or just any Medicare D ID card for the ID?

Did you guys see this communication?!?

Celebrate us with raises. Celebrate us with payroll hours. Celebrate us with paid holidays.

Nah. Let’s go with PIZZA!!!!

They want pics and video submissions of our celebration. WE NEED TO HAVE SOME SUPER SECRET SILENT PROTEST CODE FOR THESE PICS/VIDEOS!!!!!

Think Hunger Games. C’ mon people. I know somewhere out there is someone way more creative than myself. Something we can all do. Quietly. Virtually unnoticed.

WE NEED IDEAS!!!!!

So since I’m a salaried pharmacist already getting holiday pay and was asked to cover the holiday, is there extra holiday pay or just the normal? I figure not but 🤷‍♂️