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The pharmacy tech in Tucson told me her hours got cut to 24 a week after they put in the new pill counter
I was picking up a script at a Walgreens on Speedway in Tucson back in March and the tech behind the counter, a woman in her fifties, told me they installed an automated pill counter and her hours dropped from 38 to 24 in one month. She said it fills 90% of the scripts now and she just checks them, and the chain calls that "upskilling." I keep thinking about how calm she was saying it, like it was weather. Everyone online argues about whether robots will "create new jobs," but nobody asks her what her new job pays. Anyone here actually see a workplace where the machine came in and the person's paycheck stayed flat or fell?
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