I was an RXM in Florida. My staff pharmacist and I both were terminated at the beginning of June for “blatantly disregarding sop” which was absolutely ridiculous. Now it all makes sense. They were looking for something to terminate us for so they didn’t have to pay severance. We were the only store in the market up in script count, sales, specialty etc. Always at the top of the market on metrics and really went the extra mile to develop patient relationships. Been devastated for the past three weeks because I loved Walmart and was nothing but loyal to them for 5 years.
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This is business and unfortunately industry wide there is a supply glut of pharmacists now. The blame rests on the profession as a whole that allowed the accreditation of a new school to pop up on every street corner and allow current schools to expand class sizes through the use of satellite campuses and the internet. Current graduates will be lucky to find full time 80 hour work. If they are lucky enough to find that work it will likely be at a pay rate significantly below what graduates started out at 10 years ago and it would take them 40 years of meager pay raises to make what a pharmacist with 10 years experience makes now. Again this is industry wide and doesn't make a difference if one works in the community or ambulatory setting. If you are in pharmacy school now I would suggest researching and pursing a different career path. Pick a field that has greater barriers of entry like dental school, optometry school, or med school that would never allow school after school to open devaluing the profession. Bottom line there would be no trouble finding work and likely no layoffs if there wasn't an abundance of pharmacists now. Pharmacy was the it job years ago where the graduate had all the leverage and that definitely isn't the case anymore.