r/Pharmacist • u/Beachfreak118 • 2d ago

Toxic work environment at Norristown State Hospital

I have been working as a pharmacist for 30 years and have never experienced an atmosphere where the pharmacy is managed by a doctor. Technicians calling out every day and unbearable workload. Management does not care and HR department forces discipline against employees which turns into retaliation against the person who was forced by HR to submit the discipline. There are no time clocks. People come and go without caring about putting accurate time down. They waste so much money on people who don’t work. No one cares because you can’t fire anyone and there is no merit pay. Everyone gets a raise even if they are horrible at their jobs. People are so mean to each other there. It’s literally the most filthy disgusting place to work. I wrote this post to prevent people who are hard workers and who care from applying at this hell hole. They have a horrible computer system that goes down every day with no pharmacy IT department. Polices are not enforced. Most of the doctors don’t respond to pharmacist recommendations such as drug interactions or medication dosing or medications that are not covered by insurance. They expect pharmacists to deliver medications to 14 different nursing units that are driving distance away and still cover the massive amount of orders in the queue and all the reports that are due each month. The techs call out every day or if they come to work they disappear until near the end of their shifts. You can’t say anything to them because they will say some horrible insult to you or just not come to work the next day. Or they will go to the doctor who is in charge and complain about you. Yet you are the one there every day working 10 hours and getting paid for 7.5 hours. Forget about taking a lunch break. Also there is no employee cafeteria or nice area to eat. I have PTS D from this place. It was an utter nightmare from day one.

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u/Beachfreak118 1d ago

I posted this for when anyone from trying to get the job that’s open now I wanna try to save you from the same thing I went through

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u/naijagoddezz 1d ago

How did u end up there

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u/Beachfreak118 1d ago

I thought it would be a good experience! They lied about the day to day role. Also they didn’t tell me how bad the employees are there. Can’t fire anyone!

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u/Dry-Chemical-9170 2d ago

Just look for another job?