• spamfajitas@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    From personal experience, that pharmacist salary is offset by insane pressure from management to meet metrics that keep going up and requiring a fair amount of unpaid overtime put in to keep the queues from overflowing.

    Then you’ve got a 50:50 chance of a new tech being insane and or stupid because the good ones have long since burned out. They usually are union, though, so good for them.

    There’s a reason pharmacists in the US are starting to drop dead on the job.

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          1 year ago

          It does if you are a sociopath that considers humans easily replaceable tools. Which by coincidence almost all executives and stock holders are…

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            True, though if all you look at is the numbers you find yourself back on the other side. At times the job of industrial engineers is to use math to attempt to talk business sociopaths out of making poor decisions just to hurt workers

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              1 year ago

              Business/corporate mindset is a belief system as much as it is a rational strategy for earning money, and is arguably the lamest religion in earth.