The Wild Wild West of Pharmacies

Wooey Wooey Wooo...Wha Wha Whaa...There's a new girl in town... err I mean, a new technician in our pharmacy.

This excites me greatly.

Mainly because I can feel better about myself, as she is new and doesn't know anything and I know it ALL. Except she does know everything. She's a certified technician, which means she knows useless information such as brand names vs generics, and drug interactions and what the drugs actually do, and how to pronounce them. Again, useless. She seems like a sweet, yet somewhat mousey girl, who's soft spoken and wears the same multi-colored sparkly nail polish as I did in 7th grade. I don't know how I feel about that last one, which may or may not make me a snob.

There is one thing however she is not accustomed to, and she is having a little bit of a hard time adjusting. She's worked at Walgreens for like 8 years or something and she knows all the ins and outs and rules and procedures that must be done with every prescription filled. What she can't get used to is skipping all that crap. The way we work 'round these parts is straight slingin' scripts. Medications take names like "xanie bars" and "blue footballs" and people get in and out of our store FAST. No half hour waits here. She'll have to learn to be tough and yell at people, and learn who owes the pharmacist five dollars from the last time they were here and who has paid him back. Who's a shoplifter, and who might hit on you a bit, and watch out for that guy, he burps a lot.

Really she's nice though, and I hope this works out for her. She was recently laid off from her job at Walgreens and she has a husband and five year old daughter at home who depend on her. In her exact words "A Robot stole my job" and we all know Robots are a very, very, real threat these days. Any day now we could face an attack. Robots are taking small steps towards taking over this planet and apparently they are starting by counting pills and filling our prescriptions. So watch out. Seriously though, it sucks having your job taken away by new technology, machines, or robotsorwhatever, and apparently the staff spends more time trying to clear wedged med bottles out of this machine than they would have filling the scripts themselves. So it's really a PCJSWM (Piece of Crap Job Stealing Waste of Money).

Technology. Who needs it?

Not our pharmacy, we're too cool for that business.

The End.

Oh wait, not The End...

This afternoon I came into my room to find a sticky note stuck upside down to the center of my TV screen. This sticky note read:

"Look-3 small poopies and one that looks like a fish w/ 3 poopies on it-wow it does- quick take a picture of it"

For the next two minutes or so, I searched around the house for three small poopies so I could take a picture of them and their fish-like appearance. After not finding the poopies I called my sister and asked her about the note. She said it was a transcribed conversation between her and my niece earlier in the day...can you guess which one was the proud owner of the fish-like poopies??