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🗓️ 4 September 2024
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0:00.0 | The day that I was supposed to leave on my vacation and then they just approved my vacation and then I called in sick because I had my cousins waiting to go to him. |
0:10.0 | And corporate was there on Monday to fire me. |
0:13.0 | Wow. |
0:14.0 | You were there for like what 20 years? |
0:16.0 | 15? |
0:18.0 | 15. |
0:19.0 | So a large proportion of your life you spent there and they just fired you. |
0:21.0 | Yeah, yeah because I called in sick. |
0:26.3 | All right guys Dr. T. K. Hwin here today. Crazy story I can't wait to dive into it. |
0:30.3 | Thanks for coming on. Of course it's my pleasure. Yeah. So you |
0:33.6 | for inviting me. Absolutely. So you were a pharmacy supervisor for |
0:37.0 | Walgreens. Yes, I was. A crazy event happened, right? Yes. Talk to me |
0:41.0 | about it. Yeah, yeah, I graduated from pharmacy school. I worked as an intern for Walgreen all the way up to pharmacists managing the multiple pharmacy in our local area and then work my way up to a supervisor. |
1:00.0 | 2008 hit, stock crash, everything crashed, and they're like, okay, well, we need to start letting some of the people go. |
1:08.0 | And how do we do that? It was like, well, we gotta start writing people up for their mistakes so that |
1:15.2 | way it's easier to fire them after three mistakes and really made me think I'm |
1:20.6 | like these are all the people that I grew up with and these employees are real people. |
1:29.2 | Just because we're putting them under a lot of pressure of speed versus accuracy. |
1:36.7 | We're trying to pump up as much prescription in volume as possible. |
1:41.0 | They're gonna make a mistake and because of our pressure they make |
1:46.2 | the mistake I write them up and then I have to fire them. So I thought about it and I said |
1:51.0 | this is not my job so I stepped down and ultimately they figure out |
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