I’ve realized that I haven’t posted much about NewTech lately. Here’s a few snippets of conversation from her from just the past week.

NewTech: [referring to the fans located at the front of the store with the little bits of ribbon showing their breeze] Those ribbon things are annoying me. I keep thinking there’s someone waving up front.
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We recently learned that in addition to “junkie math” at work, there is also “junkie time”.

Us [on Monday]: You can’t fill that script until Wednesday. It’s too soon and you should have plenty
Junkie: Wednesday?
Us: Yes. That’s still two days early.
Junkie: What if I come in on Tuesday, after 2pm?
Us: No. That’s still too soon.
Junkie: Why?
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I’ve been working for the same pharmacy for just about 6 years now. Over the past 5 years, the shit coming down the pipe from corporate has gotten crazier. It’s like having a girlfriend who gets progressively more possessive and micromanaging of your life. Each policy that we get is crazier than the last.

In the past last year, they’ve ( Read more... )

I swear, as the month has gone on, the people we’re dealing with at work are getting stupider.

Patient: [with a box of Sudafed] Is this going to make me sleep?
Me: No, if anything it will keep you awake.
Patient: Oh. I haven’t slept very well in, like, 3 days. I just need to sleep, but I can’t because I’ve got this head cold.
Me: [finding ( Read more... )

Had a 5 minute conversation with a random patient this afternoon who was very curious about my hair. Very, very weird. The oddballs, losers, and crazies were out in force today, and we were pretty much non-stop in the pharmacy. It was awful. I prefer it busier instead of slower, but I also prefer that the patients be fucking sane, and these ( Read more... )

Discovered that a former patient died over the weekend. The obituary simply said that he died at home, which leads all of us at work to think he finally succeeding in killing himself.

BossRPh asked me yesterday if I wanted to take any day(s) off next week because they need to keep payroll down, since we’re getting holiday pay for Monday. Best week ( Read more... )

Pharmacy questions of the week

• Exceedingly high man on the phone: “hey, I found this pill and I don’t know what it is. Is it ok to take it?”
• Patient in the waiting area: “do you guys know what conceptual art is? … Art is just, like, paintings and shit, right?”
• Old woman with an analog to digital TV converter: “I don’t know if you can answer my ( Read more... )

The schedule at work has been all sorts of fucked up lately. FlakyTech no longer works for us, so we’re in the process of training a new guy. However, he’s not trained enough to work Flakey’s schedule, so we’ve got no one to cover FlakyTech’s shifts yet. We were using a tech from another store to cover some of our shifts, but he’s a pharmacy ( Read more... )

We found out late last week that two of our sweetest patients passed away. One was an elderly woman that we hadn’t seen for a couple of weeks, the other was in his 50′s and died very suddenly. He’d been in the store two days earlier.

Last night, we found out that FlakyTech (who has been out for about a month or so now, since OtherRPH sent her to ( Read more... )

I guess that I should make a post. I have a blog and shit, I should, I don’t know, blog or something.

We’ve done shit. We ran a half-marathon in the pouring rain, and it sucked balls. I refuse to acknowledge it. We ran a nice little 5k in North Attleboro, and it didn’t rain. We had some fun chatting about Vibrams and minimalist/barefoot ( Read more... )