What other health care profession can you go into that will guarantee you work long hours, without a formal break, and expected to fullfill dispensing quotas and a failure to do so WILL cost you your job------PHARMACY. The state of retail pharmacy has changed for the worse. Due to all time low 3rd party reimbursement practices and an inability to compete with mail order pricing guidelines. The current retail pharmacy outlet faces EXTINCTION. Your conventional drug stores like CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid have employed Pharmaceutical Metrics to "justify" eliminating older pharmacist in exchange for lower paid pharmacists, right out of school, so they can pay them less money and overall inject Millions if not Billions of dollars into an industry to satisfy financial goals of the company while putting more veteran/skilled pharmacists out of work. They set up dispensing metrics which directly contradict what they say they want us to do, which is spend more time counseling and managing patients health care challenges and less time dispensing YET many of the company metrics are time sensitive in reference to completing the dispensing process, which endangers public safety and health. Pharmacist's today have to choose between taking care of patients needs or satisfying company metrics. If the company metrics aren't satisfied the company will surely seek retribution including no raises, working on days off without pay, or ultimately TERMINATION! The time is now for the governing board of our great profession to stand up and put a STOP to this corporate bullying and greed!