TAP, I know where you’re coming from. But, I also don’t know how big and sticky your company is. At my last retail job, which was over ten years ago, we employees–ALL of us— had to attach our receipts to our in-store consumptions (soda, candy, etc.) to prove we didn’t pilfer them. Employee theft is a huge problem, and no one’s word was taken. I know how you feel; I’d like to think that my position as a pharmacist would let them cut me some slack, but even in the 1980s, no one was exempt from the gaze of the Loss Prevention Department. If your store is actually easy on you,gee, that would have been nice to enjoy in my time, but I didn’t have that luxury.

I get what your saying. I feel like ‘if you can trust me with the keys to the narcs, then what’s the problem?”… but I also understand where they’re coming from too. Employee theft is huge and pharmacists are no less guilty. She should have been commended for performing her job correctly, not belittled. Although I do feel like they should either trust me or fire me.

Think of it from her point of view. She was probably thinking “so it’s MY fault that YOU threw away your receipt?!” … Just like we would bitch about someone who forgot their new insurance card and expect us to just know the new info.

I’m usually pretty hardcore opinionated
on things, but I really see both sides of this. It’s really kind of irritating since I usually hate ‘the system’. LOL

Mike, would your opinion change if I told you my place of business has 20 total employees? Eleven in the pharmacy, six up front, and three in the photolab…

Now you may swing to another side…

not really. There are only twenty or so employees in this location and someone gets fired every 5 or 6 months for theft. I think the reason I see the other side is the number of times that the guilty parties are the ones that you wouldn’t expect. I will say this though… After reading it again, it seems like you both went to the extreme… Maybe that’s what set you off. It does read as her being a bit accusatory.

The chain I worked at that had the receipt policy was rather small and down-home. They just made it a rule, and we followed it. I realize that it is a bitch to have your integrity questioned, but employee theft is a big issue, and I suppose most companies have had to learn about it from hard experience. There must have been a lot of “honest” folks who somehow figured that the company “owed them something,” so they took what they want, and by so doing, established what they thought was their own fringe benefit.

Guess I have a question about those coupons you find in magazines for birth control. This may be a total wee-tawd question (I’m not in the pharmacy biz), but if you have insurance and the copay for let’s say $17, can you use those coupons? Or is that just for full price w/o insurance.

OMG! When I read this story it so reminded me of my place of employment where employee purchases render a “code 9″ which means the manager gets paged to the front of the store and searches your bags to make sure you aren’t stealing anything in front of EVERYBODY. It makes you feel like such a criminal. I hate the policy so much. I wrote corporate a letter about it, and I refuse to buy anything that might make one of these operations “necessary”. I think it is a pile of shit that they treat employees like criminals yet our stock prices are affected by “how we treat customers and how we treat each other” according to a dry erase board in the office. Let me mind you, it is standard procedure to tell a known-tobe-shoplifting customer to have a nice day as they walk out with their loot. CRAP. It’s all CRAP. I was sure to include this and the company’s mission statement to show how contradictory the whole policy was. But of course nothing has yet been done about it….

Nicole #1…

It depends. Sometimes they can be run “split billed” where the coupon comes off your copay. Some cannot be split and must be run as primary — the latter usually mean your insurance would provide a better deal. Those are targeted to those w/o insurance. Still yet, some are coupons for use at the register. They are run as checks or coupons and come off the copayment further.

However, most coupons cannot be used on Medicaid or Medicare Part D.

Thanks TAP~! I figured as much.
My brother’s gf does medical research through her mom’s business and their insurance is super crappy. Doesn’t pay for labs or medicine (only dr’s visits). Was trying to see if it would be cheaper to get a script and fill it for her or for her to use those coupons.
I work for a GYN office on a military base and we cannot get samples:(