Today I was filling in at a pharmacy where the pharmacist was a floater that day. He was rather funny, making lots of jokes and seemed like a pretty likeable fella. Until he said that the job of a pharmacy technician (which is what I am) could be done by a monkey! That comment was quite insulting, and I hope to never work with such an insensitive guy like that again! I happen to have two college degrees and had to go through special training to be a nationally certified pharmacy technician, and this guy likens me to a monkey? I don’t think so!
Yesterday I was working at a store that I don’t normally work for. I’ve been there a few times, working as a substitute. It’s always interesting to see how other stores are run. This store was very friendly (which is good because many of them are not quite friendly. Not rude, just not friendly!) Anyway, the pharmacist that was working there is a very nice person and means well. You can tell he really cares. But every now and then he pushes the legal envelope and I have concerns that he is going to end up fired and prosecuted for some of the things he has done. The worst part is that he realizes that he could get in trouble and does it anyway. I don’t like overhearing him tell people that he could get in trouble for doing something and then doing it anyway. Makes me very uncomfortable! I wonder how many other pharmacists out there do the same thing.
A while back my friend sent me this video – I think it is so funny! I heard later that there was some legal issues going around causing havoc on this video but I don’t know what they were. I thought I heard that the little girl was Will Ferrell’s daughter. So what’s the big deal? The video is a real hoot!
I’ve been struggling to get enough hours in at the pharmacy to pay my bills. I enjoy the work, but I really need more hours! So in addition to volunteering to be a floater/substitute I’ve been applying for jobs at other pharmacies. I’m both state and nationally certified, but I am having trouble landing a better job. I keep hearing that pharmacy technician work is going to be in demand, so I’m trying to hang on tight! Part of the problem I’m facing is that the hospital jobs that pay well force you to work crazy hours. I wouldn’t mind working days OR nights but not that rotating stuff that makes you crazy!
Yesterday when I was at work a woman came into the store to pick up her 16 year old daughter’s anti-biotic prescription. She had her husband with her. I was processing her payment and the pharmacist came over to the cash register to advise the mother that the anti-biotic would interfere with the effectiveness of one of the daughter’s other medications. The pharmacist was trying to be discreet – she was talking about a birth control medicine and didn’t want to come right out and call it birth control medicine. So she was calling it by the medical name (which I won’t use here.) I guess she was trying to prevent the father from learning about it (in case he didn’t already know!)
The reaction of the mother was priceless. She was clueless at first and the pharmacist had to repeat herself a couple of times before she caught on. Then her eyes got really wide and she gasped. “Oh – that is a good thing to know, thank you for telling me!” So all is well – unless the mother didn’t know that the daughter was on birth control until that point! It sure makes me nervous, situations like that. We have to protect the customer’s privacy as best we can, but this WAS a minor. Sticky wicket, eh?