I don’t understand why the pharmacy under-staffs itself so badly on the weekends. On Saturday and Sunday, they only work one pharmacist and one pharmacy technician. Every time I go into the store on a weekend I take a look at the pharmacy and see that there are very long lines to drop off and pick up prescriptions. It is obvious that the pharmacy needs more pharmacy technicians to work on the weekends, but the stores are too cheap to schedule them. It makes me really glad that I don’t usually work on a Saturday!
Fortunately for me, I DO work on Sunday in a small pharmacy that is very slow. I only work from 10-2. I’ve offered to work longer hours, but the pharmacist says that he doesn’t really need me more hours than that, as those are the busy hours. So I’m glad to get the hours, and I’m glad it is a slow store because then I don’t feel overwhelmed – the work is a nice steady pace at that store on Sunday.