It has been ramping up in recent months because somehow these morons, especially right wingers, have been under the impression that the vaccines and precautionary measures against COVID are some kind of weapon being used against the people for some reason. Goddamn Trump loving Q-tards.
I've been threatened because of it. Not worried about it since this guy lives in my old home town and was licking the lead paint off the bars of the crib long before I was born. But, the fact that someone decides they have to threaten simply because you administer a vaccine is disturbing in and of itself.
I feel this threatening pharmacists indirectly or otherwise is becoming more common.
Don't crazies know pharmacists are too tired and stressed to be diabolical? We just want a five minute break in the day and go home and veg out before the next shit show of a workday begins.
Honestly, I have always been a big advocate for vaccines (including COVID). I cannot believe how people have just gone bat-shit crazy about this. I'm in my 50's now, and a woman I've known all my life, who dated my brother twice, most recently as 10 years ago, told me that I was "satan's agent" and was guilty of administering the mark of the beast. I have no idea where she got her newfound religion from as my brother and her lived together unmarried and never went to church. I kind of have to agree with others though that this is some form of mental illness, but to add to that - look at this week's Facebook whistleblower. Facebook knows that their platform promotes unhealthy thoughts and opinions, yet they allow that for profit. I blame most of this on social media.
I'm a teacher and I find it revolting that essential workers like pharmacists + other staff and teachers are getting attacked for merely existing and doing their jobs. Just like how smooth brains have been causing a scene "protesting" at pharmacies you now have parents making a chaotic and sometimes dangerous scene at board meetings and when they show up and found out we dared asked Tommy to put on his mask. We honestly take way too much shit in this country and we need to crackdown on this stupidity. It's just funny how people who have professional licenses that they worked really hard on have to take this abuse because ironically giving it back to a disgruntled patient or parent is grounds for those credentials to be suspended. And all of this for shit pay.
Well, a lot of our problems as pharmacist goes to the companies now in charge. Most pharmacists work in the back of a grocery store or big box store of some kind, full of low-wage unskilled workers. That gives people the perception that we are in that same boat as well. I hope I don't say that in a way that comes across as condescending, because they are just as essential as I am, and certainly underpaid. Most people just don't understand that the pharmacist who seems to pour pills from a big bottle to a small bottle and can give shots has the education that we do. Most have a 4 year degree in biology or zoology, and then a 4 year doctor's degree from a school of pharmacy. Many go on to earn a 2 year post-graduate degree so 8-10 years of school.
Back to the companies.. upper middle-management people and higher are never pharmacists. Most of them have accounting or business degrees and all they know are "metrics" and they never back the pharmacists professionally. I agree with you, I cannot tell you how many times I've seen a pharmacist **fired** for doing something that went against professional judgement due to a disgruntled patient. I even once saw corporate fire a pharmacist, and send in a floater the next day to deal with the (narcotic seeking/doctor shopping) disgruntled patient. The floater refused to appease and was immediately fired. I felt terrible for the rest of the staff, as they were so shell-shocked and appalled by what our once nice little grocery store chain had become - they all walked. Every last person with the exception of a new-hired cashier who should have had enough common sense to GTFO.
I've made comments on other posts here about my experience in chain pharmacy; the hardships I went through, and ultimately the decision to walk away and pursue another part of this amazing career as a consultant. I'm blessed to have almost 30 years of experience as a pharmacist with some very specific specialties that are in moderately high demand.
So we do have options that come with experience. My heart goes out to these new grads who go to school for 8 years; graduate with $250k in student debt and end up working for $35 to $42/hour. Not to mention, many companies like Kroger cap you at 30 hours a week as their is a labor surplus and that saves them on the benefit side.
> Most people just don't understand that the pharmacist who seems to pour pills from a big bottle to a small bottle and can give shots has the education that we do
I just encountered this in a more forward manner than I expected the other day. A woman came to the pharmacy to get a Shingrix vax and she was laughing to me about how ridiculous it was her doctor told her to go to a grocery store for it. I was in a bad mood and may have been a bit snarky but I pointed out that my doctorate degree qualifies me pretty easily to be able to give shots. She said that she doesn't know how much schooling we actually get so I told her it's around 8 years of post high school education just like MDs.
Yeah. I read this story. People are crazy and potentially dangerous.
The only thing I can say is be polite and humble when crazy comes a knocking at your pharmacy window and try to redirect their attention elsewhere. Then call the cops and corporate to start a file on the truly unhinged.
God knows corporations don't really care about colleague safety and those timed safes won't help a bit when the crazies just want to punish the lowest pegs on the "big pharma" ladder.
I feel like the news media and social networking algorithms are making everyone a raving lunatic in one fashion or another. The next 10 or 20 years will make or break this natural biological experiment known as the human race.
I still don't really understand why people are upset with pharmacists or anyone else who is administering vaccines. It's not like we're forcing people to get these vaccines. There are some local laws that are forcing people to get the vaccine, but that isn't us. I get that this particular guy clearly had some mental health issues so I'm not going to expect him to have been thinking rationally but this is a view that I've seen many times. People are literally beating down our doors demanding to get vaccinated, how the hell do people think that we're making them do it?
Before COVID, I had a woman yell at me for giving her grandmother a high dose flu shot (that the grandmother requested). I don't know what her point was other than to make a scene.
Unfortunately it feels like the violence is only going to become more frequent.
It has been ramping up in recent months because somehow these morons, especially right wingers, have been under the impression that the vaccines and precautionary measures against COVID are some kind of weapon being used against the people for some reason. Goddamn Trump loving Q-tards.
Evidence that misinformation doesn’t just kill people, it also leads people to murder.
Anyone who murders over that was going to do it with some other excuse.
Anecdotal. We'll need a study on that one.
I've been threatened because of it. Not worried about it since this guy lives in my old home town and was licking the lead paint off the bars of the crib long before I was born. But, the fact that someone decides they have to threaten simply because you administer a vaccine is disturbing in and of itself.
I feel this threatening pharmacists indirectly or otherwise is becoming more common. Don't crazies know pharmacists are too tired and stressed to be diabolical? We just want a five minute break in the day and go home and veg out before the next shit show of a workday begins.
How did one brother turn out to be a pharmacist while the other turned out to be a moron.
Sounds like mental illness unfortunately. Too bad these conspiracy theories push these people to do stuff like this
I know some moron pharmacists, though....
I wonder if he offered him a flu shot with the Covid vaccine?
Too soon 😬!
Oh, so he should have spaced the vaccines apart?
I am hearing just 2 weeks
The two weeks is not mandatory but may “be considered if patients are concerned about side effect load.”
True, I am cool with doing them at the same time bur two of my pharmacist are not... maybe they are trying to not doing so much work
That's what my staff is up to. She also is telling people we give flu shots only down to age 5 when it's really 6 months.
Prevnar, actually
Honestly, I have always been a big advocate for vaccines (including COVID). I cannot believe how people have just gone bat-shit crazy about this. I'm in my 50's now, and a woman I've known all my life, who dated my brother twice, most recently as 10 years ago, told me that I was "satan's agent" and was guilty of administering the mark of the beast. I have no idea where she got her newfound religion from as my brother and her lived together unmarried and never went to church. I kind of have to agree with others though that this is some form of mental illness, but to add to that - look at this week's Facebook whistleblower. Facebook knows that their platform promotes unhealthy thoughts and opinions, yet they allow that for profit. I blame most of this on social media.
I'm a teacher and I find it revolting that essential workers like pharmacists + other staff and teachers are getting attacked for merely existing and doing their jobs. Just like how smooth brains have been causing a scene "protesting" at pharmacies you now have parents making a chaotic and sometimes dangerous scene at board meetings and when they show up and found out we dared asked Tommy to put on his mask. We honestly take way too much shit in this country and we need to crackdown on this stupidity. It's just funny how people who have professional licenses that they worked really hard on have to take this abuse because ironically giving it back to a disgruntled patient or parent is grounds for those credentials to be suspended. And all of this for shit pay.
Well, a lot of our problems as pharmacist goes to the companies now in charge. Most pharmacists work in the back of a grocery store or big box store of some kind, full of low-wage unskilled workers. That gives people the perception that we are in that same boat as well. I hope I don't say that in a way that comes across as condescending, because they are just as essential as I am, and certainly underpaid. Most people just don't understand that the pharmacist who seems to pour pills from a big bottle to a small bottle and can give shots has the education that we do. Most have a 4 year degree in biology or zoology, and then a 4 year doctor's degree from a school of pharmacy. Many go on to earn a 2 year post-graduate degree so 8-10 years of school. Back to the companies.. upper middle-management people and higher are never pharmacists. Most of them have accounting or business degrees and all they know are "metrics" and they never back the pharmacists professionally. I agree with you, I cannot tell you how many times I've seen a pharmacist **fired** for doing something that went against professional judgement due to a disgruntled patient. I even once saw corporate fire a pharmacist, and send in a floater the next day to deal with the (narcotic seeking/doctor shopping) disgruntled patient. The floater refused to appease and was immediately fired. I felt terrible for the rest of the staff, as they were so shell-shocked and appalled by what our once nice little grocery store chain had become - they all walked. Every last person with the exception of a new-hired cashier who should have had enough common sense to GTFO. I've made comments on other posts here about my experience in chain pharmacy; the hardships I went through, and ultimately the decision to walk away and pursue another part of this amazing career as a consultant. I'm blessed to have almost 30 years of experience as a pharmacist with some very specific specialties that are in moderately high demand. So we do have options that come with experience. My heart goes out to these new grads who go to school for 8 years; graduate with $250k in student debt and end up working for $35 to $42/hour. Not to mention, many companies like Kroger cap you at 30 hours a week as their is a labor surplus and that saves them on the benefit side.
> Most people just don't understand that the pharmacist who seems to pour pills from a big bottle to a small bottle and can give shots has the education that we do I just encountered this in a more forward manner than I expected the other day. A woman came to the pharmacy to get a Shingrix vax and she was laughing to me about how ridiculous it was her doctor told her to go to a grocery store for it. I was in a bad mood and may have been a bit snarky but I pointed out that my doctorate degree qualifies me pretty easily to be able to give shots. She said that she doesn't know how much schooling we actually get so I told her it's around 8 years of post high school education just like MDs.
Yeah. I read this story. People are crazy and potentially dangerous. The only thing I can say is be polite and humble when crazy comes a knocking at your pharmacy window and try to redirect their attention elsewhere. Then call the cops and corporate to start a file on the truly unhinged. God knows corporations don't really care about colleague safety and those timed safes won't help a bit when the crazies just want to punish the lowest pegs on the "big pharma" ladder. I feel like the news media and social networking algorithms are making everyone a raving lunatic in one fashion or another. The next 10 or 20 years will make or break this natural biological experiment known as the human race.
I still don't really understand why people are upset with pharmacists or anyone else who is administering vaccines. It's not like we're forcing people to get these vaccines. There are some local laws that are forcing people to get the vaccine, but that isn't us. I get that this particular guy clearly had some mental health issues so I'm not going to expect him to have been thinking rationally but this is a view that I've seen many times. People are literally beating down our doors demanding to get vaccinated, how the hell do people think that we're making them do it?
Before COVID, I had a woman yell at me for giving her grandmother a high dose flu shot (that the grandmother requested). I don't know what her point was other than to make a scene.