Comments on: Lunch

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:37:16 +0000

We all should be entitled to at least 1 30min lunch break daily!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:04:57 +0000

I plan my lunches by where I am working. Some worksites, I can eat luch before it cools. Others not so much. So I bring cold lunches to those places.

I have also occasionally locked myself in the bathroom, closed my eyes and enjoyed the silence. Sometimes that is the only real break I get. Pathetic, eh?

By: Pharmacy God

Pharmacy God — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:36:53 +0000

Right after the election, when Obama had his change.gov site running, there was an interesting link. It said that Obama was going to get the Kentucky River rulings reversed. These are the court rulings that exempted pharmacists, nurses, physicians, etc… from most of the labor laws.

That link didn’t stay up long, however. I wonder if CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid got to him. Or if it was just more of your run-to-the-mill political BS.
I vote B.S.

By: Pharmacy Mike

Pharmacy Mike — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:44:43 +0000

I do need to eat something during the day or else I burn out in the afternoon. However, I think having a half-hour or hour lunch break would make me a little lethargic for the rest of the day.

Maybe I’ve just gotten so used to eating quickly and going right back to work, but I find that any time I am able to take my time to eat, I feel sluggish afterwards.

My attitude in work is to jump into the fray and keep moving until the day is over. In that way, I never look at the clock. I never break rhythm. It’s kind of like exercising. If you were working out, you wouldn’t want to go to the gym in the morning, do half a work out, and then have to come back later in the day to finish it. You want to get it all done in one shot because when you stop, your motivation to start again greatly decreases.

That’s how I feel. After a break, I just don’t have that motivation to work anymore. Not that I’m all that motivated to start with…

As long as I get 5 or 10 minutes to scarf down a sandwich, I feel OK.

By: IAPharmr

IAPharmr — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:32:34 +0000

I also work for a chain, I get 30 minutes without fail every day, phones off, I walk out and don’t come back for 30 minutes. LOVE IT! You should talk to your people about getting in on the fun!

By: Jade

Jade — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:36:30 +0000

Yea, sometimes silence and no street rumbling is underrated. (We had a pneumatic tube that roared around the nursing units into the pharmacy with a thud and clunk–the vibrations in my head persisted for hours after the shift and up to several years after transferring to another job (probably what those working with jackhammers feel).
Just think what the idea of a lunch every day might result in…guess, it’ll be after this present pharmacist shortage is no longer an issue.

By: sickofstupidpeople

sickofstupidpeople — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:52:47 +0000

PC, I don’t know what company you work for, but I can tell you they’re really stupi. You deserve a lunch – more than anyone else in the store!
I work for the “big evil” (someone else’s term, I can’t take credit for it), and I get lunch every day. Even on weekends. If I happen to be the only pharmacist on duty, we close the pharmacy for 30 minutes. It’s not an hour, but I still get to retreat to my 4 wheeled break room for at least a little while – better than nothing. I have to say, that’s the best thing “big evil” has ever done – recognizing that we pharmacists need food, too.
When will the rest of the pharmacy world wake up? When will the boards of pharmacy legislate the breaks for pharmacists (after all, it is a safety issue for patients)?
My hope for you for the coming year is that your business will pick up enough to justify a 2nd pharmacist every weekday, so you can have FIVE lunches a week!

By: Brigitte

Brigitte — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:07:26 +0000

I guess my pharmacists are lucky because they take a lunch every day, 1 hour without fail. We are a pretty busy pharmacy 500+ per day but our pharmacy manager would never think of making the rph work 11-14 hrs straight. PC I hope you keep enjoying your lunch it sounds like you really earn it.