Are there any pharmacists that have been unjustly treated by CVS Pharmacy?
I am a CVStress pharmacist and it sucks. It used to be a great place to work, but in the last few years it's changed completely. They want you to have excellent customer service scores but only give you a skeleton crew. The pharmacist has to check every prescription, count CII prescriptions (which is going to become completely outrageous when hydrocodone becomes a CII on October 6), give immunizations, counsel on every new prescription filled for a chronic condition, check the voicemail within 15 minutes or less, make harassing phone calls to customers every day about why they haven't picked their prescription up yet, call doctor's offices if a prescription needs clarification, call insurance companies when needed, answer questions about OTC medications, etc. At my store, we do about 1800 prescriptions a week, so there is only one pharmacist on duty (no overlap, but we usually end up working beyond our scheduled time -- unpaid, of course -- because we don't want to leave each other in a terrible situation), and the pharmacist is alone for the last 2 hours of every weekday shift. On the weekends, it is one tech and one pharmacist. Imagine doing all of those things, for 8 to 14 hours every day, with no breaks. I have to eat whatever I can shove in my mouth between the million tasks to be completed and I have trained myself to not used the bathroom for 14 hours. Firstly, because I don't have time and secondly because it's a public restroom and customers are absolutely disgusting. There's never time for anyone to clean it and CVS has eliminated janitorial staff. I stepped down from being PIC because it was all of the tasks listed above plus going to mandatory, unpaid, 8 hour meetings on your days off and completing random busy-work tasks (SOS Action Plan...WeCare Observations/Report Cards...GTFOH). The idiots at corporate coming up with all of this bullsh!t have no idea what it's like to actually be in a store. There are so many metrics they constantly hound you about. WeCare score, SOS score, KPM, number of flu shots, number of random other vaccinations, script count, budgeted hours, MySchedule optimization, ExtraCare card scan rate, and many more. If something less stressful came along and it was less pay, I'd probably take it. Once my mortgage is paid off, I'm done with CVS. I doubt I'll even patronize them as a customer.
Guy in my husband's platoon supposedly got PTSD before being deployed...true?
PTSD can come from a number of circumstances, and not necessarily military related. So possibly true...but more than likely not in this case. At any rate, I'm surprised that the police dept would take him though with that sort of illness...or that type of military discharge. Potential police officers are supposed to go through background checks and If they do the background check and he has a DD or a BCD they'll find out and he'll get kicked off the force. Also if he's diagnosed with PTSD by the government chances are he's considered unemployable. Ten years ago I dated a man with PTSD from the Vietnam war. He was diagnosed nearly 30 years after the war, and he gets $2K a month from the govt and was NOT allowed to seek employment...and this was after he had owned a business for 20 years! He had to go to counseling at the VA every week. The relationship did not last because everything became all about his disability and I got tired of it. I decided that instead of being treated as a girlfriend I was being treated as an unpaid nurse...so I broke it off...with no regrets!
How can an officer shooting at a raccoon and hitting someone's garage be suspended without pay, while another officer seriously injures or shoots someone without reasonable cause and be put on administrative leave with pay?
You ask two different questions“How can an officer shooting at a raccoon and hitting someone's garage be suspended without payHow can an “officer [who] seriously injures or shoots someone without reasonable cause … be put on administrative leave with pay”You give us a reference for the first, and no details of the second event. Then try and conflate them.To address the raccoon issue:The officer was not discharging their firearm in the course of their duties (the raccoon was not a prisoner in an institution under the officer’s control). Therefore, internal procedures such as administrative leave probably don’t apply.The officer fired their gun in an arguably reckless manner. 8 Shots fired in a residential area: two hit the garage, one hit the raccoon, what happened to the other five? That’s one offense (reckless endangerment).Raccoons are actually a protected species in NYC (I believe Queens is a suburb of NYC). So that’s another offense (hunting without a license/permit?).The officer fell foul of animal cruelty laws: a third offense (cruelty).This officer now has 3 offenses against them, one involving a firearm. They work in a job requiring they be armed. Suspending them without pay is a reasonable action for an employer to take. Similar perhaps to suspending a commercial driver pending the outcome of a drink driving court case.For the police officer:If this occurred, then it was probably in the course of the police officer’s duties and all internal processes apply.It is standard procedure for the officer to be put on administrative leave while a shooting is investigated. They then proceed to suspended without pay and eventual dismissal and charges if the shooting is not justified. That’s the process.The “without reasonable cause” part of your question is unsupported by any evidence you have provided. That’s precisely what would be investigated during the administrative leave period.Beyond that, the only things linking your questions is that both involve someone who is routinely armed as part of their job, Otherwise you are comparing apples and oranges.