At my last store there was a pharmacist who had apparently opened the store once upon a time - she's a bit of a workaholic, but after going on convalescence after a surgery and getting a divorce, she had stepped down. The current pharmacy manager is younger than her, much less of a nazi about the rules, and most importantly, a PharmD, whereas said pharmacist is only an RPH with a bachelors. She was the sweetest person to all of the patients, always smiling and making pleasantries and being ridiculously cheerful. She stuck to the rules religiously, to the point where she had us double counting tramadol before it was controlled because "it ought to be" and fioricet because "it's controlled elsewhere." When I first met her, I liked her, she was always nice to me and complimented me because I always did things just so and by the book (I'm kind of anal about my job), but one day I overheard another tech saying that that pharmacist made her want to quit. I didn't get it.

Until one night. I closed with the pharmacist, and when it was late and all the other techs were gone, she proceeded to talk all sorts of shit about our rxm. She talked about how she'd "make deals" with longtime patients to keep their c2's in stock, how she hired shitty techs, how in HER day, the pharmacy was always clean and blah blah blah. She insinuated to me that the rxm was somehow in cahoots with the druggies that frequent the town's pill mill, that she was keeping ludicrous amounts of methadone and oxycodone in the store for no good reason, that she heard her dad used to work for a methadone clinic and that now she was continuing his work in servicing the same clientele. I was trapped with this woman basically trying to tell me my boss was doing things that she could lose her license for, things she should never, ever share with a subordinate.

After that, I noticed more about how she would turn to me and make comments about other techs and how incompetent they were for no good reason.

I ended up telling the rxm about her comments and how uncomfortable she made me. Nothing came of it. The pharmacist is currently working 4 days a week desperately pursuing a master's, because she thinks she's gonna be replaced by a younger PharmD who will work for less. I kinda hope she's right.