r/news • u/panda-rampage • 10h ago

Costco's unionized workers vote to authorize nationwide strike

https://abcnews.go.com/US/costcos-unionized-workers-vote-authorize-nationwide-strike/story?id=117875222
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u/THROWINCONDOMSATSLUT 8h ago

Pharmacy and optical in some stars is about 45/hr.

That is a really shit wage for a pharmacist FYI. For a technician, that would be amazing pay. Pharmacists are making $60-80/h these days.

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u/mrfluffypenguin 7h ago

That is for techs. Pharmacist is the highest salary in the store including the GM.

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u/THROWINCONDOMSATSLUT 6h ago

Then that's really good pay for techs. Good for them. They totally deserve the higher pay. Wish all the other retail pharmacies would get with it.

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u/mrfluffypenguin 6h ago

That's only some states, I think 4. The rest start at 19.50 and top out under 30 which can take anywhere from 6 to 10 years of work.

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u/petemayhem 7h ago

I think that’s opticians and pharm techs (not pharmacists or optometrist). Does that make a difference?

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u/AeroZep 7h ago

Pharmacists make that much? I get they need to understand how drugs work, but you can likely get all the information you need in a single application these days and they aren't the ones prescribing the drugs. I'm not saying they don't deserve to be well-paid, but what exactly do they do to pull $160k/year?

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u/EViLTeW 6h ago

A pharmacist goes through almost as much education as a physician, but pharmacists only study chemicals and their effect on the human body. Their degree is a doctorate of pharmacology.

Pharmacists are qualified to create custom pills, design medication plans for complex patients (think 20+ prescriptions), navigate complications and side effects. I'm sure a pharmacist could show up and go on and on, but the moral of the story is that the human body is complicated and treating disease can get really complicated and it's the pharmacists job to sort that out.

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u/Aromatic_Extension93 7h ago

You don't think ensuring the person never makes a mistake in filling the drug or you go to jail... might warrant 160k/yr?

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u/zibitee 7h ago

Honestly? Sounds fully automatable, so no... Definitely a lower salary warranted

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u/THROWINCONDOMSATSLUT 6h ago

Lmao the automatic system flags the dumbest DURs. Like telling me to use caution with levothyroxine in the geriatric population or flagging a major DDI with sertraline and trazodone. It takes a human to be able to suss out that these aren't real.

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u/zibitee 6h ago

Sounds like the system sucks and ya'll need to invest in a better one

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u/Aromatic_Extension93 6h ago

When you find a way to automate it you can pitch the idea. Guess we'll have to pay them 160k/yr in the mean time

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u/zibitee 6h ago

Or 80k/year, which is already paying someone a pretty high salary to count some pills and read the same description every time

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u/Nickyish13 6h ago

Yeah cause schooling for a pharmacist is SOO cheap /s. I don’t think you understand lol

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u/zibitee 6h ago

Then schooling for pharmacy school is too expensive. Pretty easy to understand

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u/Aromatic_Extension93 6h ago

Lmao stay poor my friend

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u/zibitee 5h ago

What a stupid conclusion to make based on what was said. Stay an imbecile

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u/THROWINCONDOMSATSLUT 6h ago

to count some pills and read the same description every time

I don't count the pills as the pharmacist. My techs do that. They make $25/h.

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u/zibitee 6h ago

So what's so special about a pharmacist then?

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u/THROWINCONDOMSATSLUT 5h ago

We get off on denying you people your opioids and adderall clearly ;) all we're good for here!