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How can I get fired from my pharmacy tech job?

  • I really hate my job I don't have have the courage to quit so I am planning on getting fired. If I get fired I will be able to collect unemployment benefits until I find another position. I would like some suggestions on what I can do that will make the pharmacy director "let me go" here are some ideas I had (no stealing, no verbal assault with co-workers or patients/customers) something more passive aggressive. Today I had to work but I just didn't show up I pulled a no show. I was thinking about taking days off coming in late 15 minutes and then pushing it to 20 minutes late every other day, maybe letting the phone ring and not picking up or letting the voicemails refills just sit there until the patients show up for pick up. Maybe not being proactive at all and doing the bare minimum to get by...Does any one else have any good ideas? I know this sounds really horrible especially with so many people looking for tech positions but this job really makes me miserable I hate waking up in the morning thinking I have to spend the next 8.5 hours in a pharmacy dealing with the mayhem. I am just not happy and I think that the best thing I can do for myself is get out now...its very frustrating when you truly hate your job not just dislike but HATE!

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    I am a pharmacy director, so please listen to the following: If an employer fires you for cause (you do something negative that causes the employer to let you go), you will most likely not get any unemployment benefits. You can appeal, but if you do something as you say you are, which includes not showing up for work, you will most likely lose the appeal. Instead, ask your manager/director for some time to talk. Let he/she know how you feel. I also hope you are not one of my techs, and if you are, come see me. As a director, I want my staff to feel appreciated and to not feel like they are in a miserable environment. We try and foster a team work and mutual respect mentality. One other thing I thought about is compassion fatigue. This is something normally seen in nurses, but can happen to front line staff who have to deal with difficult customers (patients or other staff). The fatigue causes lack of desire to come to work (almost an anxiety), exhaustion, lack of caring when at work, and similar related feelings like you have mentioned. Consider seeing a social worker. My company has some for free for staff who are experiencing burn out. Please look into it and do not burn a bridge, pharmacy is a small world. Take care,

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NO, if you get fired you can't collect unemployment. NO, if you quit you can't collect unemployment. They have to let you go for other reasons, like they got rid of your job, for you to get unemployment. Sorry, but that's the way it works. You no-call-no-showed, so you're PROBABLY ALREADY FIRED. Too bad.... I don't have any pity for you. This is the real world. Suck it up, do your job, make your pay, and have a good life. Or try to live on welfare. Those are your choices. People who work consider people on welfare to be LOSERS, just so you know. If you don't like being a pharmacy tech do something else. Sheesh! God forbid everyone doesn't like their job! Welcome to reality! I hate my job too but I make WAY too much money to screw it up. Now in school to do something better. That's the only way you can change it.

Lisa Morgan

This is not necessarily the answer you are looking for but, if I were you I would definitely avoid being fired. It leaves a gap in your resume and then you are not able to provide that employer as a reference for your next position. If you list your current position in your resume, you are also obliged to tell your prospective employer that you were fired. You seem to be in healthcare (as am I) so you must know that references are incredibly important for "good" jobs. So with that bit of advice I put the question on you, why don't you look for another position and apply for it? You need to accept responsibility and not burden the taxpayers with unemployment costs simply because you "hate your job".

David

if you get fired you will have a hard time getting another job. I really hate my job, not the job but the people i work with, it fills me with dread but I have bills to pay & not having a job is not an option. getting fired requires gross misconduct and you don't wan that on a reference, stick it out till you find something better.

Betty

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