I never post. I'm bad.

Here I am. I will admit it. I am desperate. I am trying to find a new pharmacy internship. I am wanting to leave CMH. I just can't work there anymore. It's not worth my effort. The hours suck and there is no management. I'm also not learning anything anymore. I understand that every once in a while you need to do tech duties...it happens. But lately all I have been doing is stupid, non-educational tech duites and it has to stop. I also have been treat like crap since day 1. When I got hired I was told that I would work X amount of hours just like all the other students and get all of these benefits. I have yet to see those benefits. I was lied to so I would take the job there cause they were so desperate for help. Real nice work place, huh?

So here I am stuck there. Literally. I put my online application to all of the Hy-Vee and Price Chopper pharmacies hoping I would hear something back. Nothing. I even applied in person to 2 Price Chopper pharmacies hoping that would help. Nothing so far. I need to start off slow in the retail world. I would die and not be able to handle the volume at a larger national chain. So until I hear something from one of them I am literally stuck at CMH.

I hate working at CMH. The only thing that keeps me going in one of the fellow techs....Melissa. She's amazing and she makes me laugh and she makes it all seem so much better when I'm there. But even that can't keep me there. Oh, and CMH has a record for people calling in sick. I think they said that in 6 months that one person called in "sick" 37 times. That's just ridiculus. I understand that people or their kids get sick, but after awhile you know that it's just people not wanting to come into work. And that puts more stress on the people (like me) who now have to do their job plus the job of the person that didn't want to come into work that day. I have worked at CMH for 2 years now and I think I have called in 3 times....and all of them were because I was sick. And I get no reward for coming to work. I think that's the problem. There's no incentive for showing up, while on the other hand there's no punishment for failure to show up. Only now are they starting to catch on to this problem. Too late.

My supervisor is a tech. She hates me. I really think she does. I hope she does cause I hate her. That would probably be the only thing we have in common. She rarely answers my e-mails and has yet to return one of my phone calls. She's not good at her job. Oh and my schedule sucks and has sucked for several months. I get put on holidays that weren't mine to begin with and I was told it was my responsibility to find some one to work it, I get put in areas that I'm not trained in and I'm told again it's my responsibility to find someone to trade with, I ask for time off because of class and then I get scheduled a crappy tech shift and then I'm told again that it's my responsibility to find someone to pick it up. Well here's a news flash: I can send out e-mails to my fellow techs and students asking for someone to pick the shift up or to trade days with me every day and not one person will answer me. Trust me, it's been scientifically proven many times. So that sucks.

Oh and did I mention again that I'm not learning anything. The point of an internship is that pharmacy students are suppose to be continously learning something. That stopped a while ago. I would really like to put my pharmacology and pharmcotherapy skills to work. That would be nice, but too bad it hasn't happened in a while and probably won't for a while. Oh, and I don't think techs should be allowed to be in the learning areas. They're not paying out of state graduate fees and studying their ass off like the pharm students are.

So, yea I'm really frustrated and pissed off at CMH right now. I have even talked with the pharmacy management and she has admitted that the learning has disappeared but she's too busy right now to care or to do anything about it. She told me that she just hired a new part time pharmacist and she's hoping that she will take on that task. Yea right....an hourly paid part time pharmacist is going to do all that extra work for no extra pay?? Think again.

So here I am frustrated again. I am in desperate need for a new internship. One that doesn't stress me out.....I already have enough stress from school and life and I don't think I need anymore from my job. So if anyone knows anything about a new job opening.....let me know. Again, I'm desperate!!

Here's my two cents about public transportation, or better known as the bus.

A bus should not run a red light!!

That is all.