By Pat Maio
Source: OC Register
Angie Ayala, a pharmacy technician at Ralph’s Fare Fresh in Pasadena, drives in from her Hollywood apartment for a five-day-a-week job that pays $24.10 hourly.
She and her husband are raising two daughters, 10 and 6, in a one-bedroom apartment.
Not long ago, Ayala bought an upright piano and pushed it under the steps that lead to her upper floor apartment. She’d like to get paid more so that she can hire a piano teacher for her oldest daughter — maybe even save to buy a home. But her budget is too tight, and there’s pressure at work.
“It’s a stressful job when the pharmacy is understaffed,” Ayala said. “We fill between 125 and 150 prescriptions a day, make calls to doctors and nurses and insurance — doing two or three things at once,” Ayala said. “There’s a lot more work, especially if you have to deal with vaccine appointments.”
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