Open Doors

[goddessofcake]

I probably failed to mention the other day during my summation of life that I also work part-time as a pharmacy technician. So I'm doing that. It's not a bad gig, but lately I've just been so stressed with the constant flux. It's not too bad when I work on filling the prescriptions because I don't have to worry so much about interacting with

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[johhnymayhem]

heh, for awhile there I was considering a career in a pharmacy myself.

[goddessofcake]

It's not a bad gig, but it's stressful. A lot of customers don't understand how much is going on to get their prescriptions ready and what can possibly go wrong in the process. In 20 minutes (ideally, but not realistically), we get the dropped off prescription, confirm we have all the information we need on the person, scan the prescription into our system, double-check everything, type up the directions and so forth, send it on to the pharmacists to check to make sure we did that right, and then it get processed in our system. If it's insurance, then the insurance either lets us put it to the next step of filling the prescription, or it gives us an error that we need to try to remedy (and that can be a multitude of things). If it's cash, less chances of errors (although it still happens). Prescriptions go to the filling station, and they get filled (hence the name). (Sometimes we can't fill prescriptions though, like if we realize we're low on stock. Then we have to order it and inform the customer, and they either choose to accept a

[johhnymayhem]

Sheesh. Terrible customers are everywhere. @_@