Pharmacy is an example of how the GOP engages stupid "watchdogs" to protect their interests. As far as business goes, pharmacy, tongue wagging, has accepted the lowest reimbursements, the most volume, and the least respect for it all. I would compare pharmacy to poor, religious conservatives who haven't thought about their watchdog status, how they're being used for their emotional, easily-broken-down complacency as a way to scare others into, eventually, obeying the GOP.
The hard line of this profession will ultimately lead to its demise. These words from a student who can't use his own profit-hoarding school as an example to get rights to make up a missed assignment for a missed class due to dental appointment. Anyone who is conservative because their employee is conservative is of a base base make and model. Trickle down economics does not work, retards.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
The lameness continues...hey! I found a quarter!
It’s been a while since I’ve really written, but pharmacy continues to suck. Schools continue to stay out of touch with the barbaric realities of the “profession”, making zillions off of students who are increasingly having to beg for jobs that suck afterward. My school, in particular, is like a rich North Korea. How on Earth are for-profit schools legal? Can you imagine an institution that takes $40k a year from its students, while trading stocks with its investors, some of whom dare come and teach on certain days, staring in the eyes of the people whose blood is being sucked from loans. One of my friends, a real estate agent, says “they’re really taking advantage of you, aren’t they?”. It’s funny he should say that, because my school is not the sole recipient of all that I’m sacrificing financially and emotionally for this. Or are they?
It seems like pharmacy has been morphed into a profession for the gullible. The easily manipulated. And our slave drivers continue to dig deeper into wounds that frankly none of my colleagues are vocal enough complaining about. But start taking away their money and maybe they’ll get enraged? Paycuts are easily going to come.
I was at a resort town this weekend for a state pharmacy organization “conference” (in that, it’s just a way for students to pay to get advertised by a company’s most attractive and smooth-talking employees to believe their company is something it’s not---respectful of pharmacists). I took a girl I’m into and her cousin. They posed as an engineer and medical student since they are interested in those fields and it’d save a lot of introduction. We were at a theme party where 200 pharmacy students (mostly) and some industry people were inside drinking, and being shy to start dancing. Coaxing themselves into bravely having “fun” while worrying about midterms to come. While I’m inside, I see my classmates, only talking to each other, coyly greet me and go their separate ways. I am more open in my greetings with students from other schools, introducing them to my friends.
Suddenly, I’m approached by a girl wearing a leotard and another one wearing some kind of 80’s jumpsuit. They jump in front of me and say “Hey you! Wanna come dance with us?”. It was immediately apparent to me that they weren’t pharmacy students. There’s just no way a pharmacy student would dress up so boldly like that, nor be that confident with a stranger. I called them out as non-pharmacy students. They told me grudgingly that they were hired entertainers. There to help get the party started, but also make the party look fun. Wow, state pharmacy organization, you really DID recognize how much of socially awkward dweebs pharm students are.
My girl’s cousin was supposed to be a 2nd year student from a notable medical school in the state. He ended up rubbing elbows with a Board of Trustees member of the state organization. This member finds out in conversation that my friend is a “medical student” and he immediately starts apologizing about the students in attendance at the gathering. “I apologize for the lack of professionalism and maturity of the students here, we used to get good students, but now it’s different. They have simple minds,” he said in so many words. I was shocked to hear about this, but I felt some comfort: at least someone in this profession recognizes how lame the students being admitted are, how their paucity in life experience affects how the profession is being molded by them, and honestly, how this profession is going down the drain.
Who in pharmacy has a clue?
It seems like pharmacy has been morphed into a profession for the gullible. The easily manipulated. And our slave drivers continue to dig deeper into wounds that frankly none of my colleagues are vocal enough complaining about. But start taking away their money and maybe they’ll get enraged? Paycuts are easily going to come.
I was at a resort town this weekend for a state pharmacy organization “conference” (in that, it’s just a way for students to pay to get advertised by a company’s most attractive and smooth-talking employees to believe their company is something it’s not---respectful of pharmacists). I took a girl I’m into and her cousin. They posed as an engineer and medical student since they are interested in those fields and it’d save a lot of introduction. We were at a theme party where 200 pharmacy students (mostly) and some industry people were inside drinking, and being shy to start dancing. Coaxing themselves into bravely having “fun” while worrying about midterms to come. While I’m inside, I see my classmates, only talking to each other, coyly greet me and go their separate ways. I am more open in my greetings with students from other schools, introducing them to my friends.
Suddenly, I’m approached by a girl wearing a leotard and another one wearing some kind of 80’s jumpsuit. They jump in front of me and say “Hey you! Wanna come dance with us?”. It was immediately apparent to me that they weren’t pharmacy students. There’s just no way a pharmacy student would dress up so boldly like that, nor be that confident with a stranger. I called them out as non-pharmacy students. They told me grudgingly that they were hired entertainers. There to help get the party started, but also make the party look fun. Wow, state pharmacy organization, you really DID recognize how much of socially awkward dweebs pharm students are.
My girl’s cousin was supposed to be a 2nd year student from a notable medical school in the state. He ended up rubbing elbows with a Board of Trustees member of the state organization. This member finds out in conversation that my friend is a “medical student” and he immediately starts apologizing about the students in attendance at the gathering. “I apologize for the lack of professionalism and maturity of the students here, we used to get good students, but now it’s different. They have simple minds,” he said in so many words. I was shocked to hear about this, but I felt some comfort: at least someone in this profession recognizes how lame the students being admitted are, how their paucity in life experience affects how the profession is being molded by them, and honestly, how this profession is going down the drain.
Who in pharmacy has a clue?
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