Sunday, October 29, 2006

starschmucks and flu shots

Did you know that having a starbucks kiosk 8 feet in front of your pharmacy will drive you batshit, almost immediately, everyday? Anyway, my rant subject of the day is flu shots. One of our pharmacists is trained to administer immunizations. So we start asking, last flu season, how are we going to do flu shots? Clinic style, by appointment, what. So the corporate morons can't decide on anything until October, when the vaccines are in the fridge and the old people are on the phone asking "when are they? " The morons decide that with 8 extra tech hours a week for 4 weeks, we should be able to do 250 flu shots. No extra pharmacist hours, he'll have to use his regular hours,HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! In a pigs eye. It seems to me if you are going to run a large department of a large corporation, you should have some clue what goes on in the everyday operations so that you don't make completely stupid decisions everyday. But thats another rant. So anyway, we have flu shots scheduled everyday that this pharmacist works, and only when there is another pharmacist also on duty, so that someone is still available to do the regular work. The freaking shots are stretched out clear to December. And the customers are pissed off too. I wish I could give them the corporate morons personal phone numbers so they can call and tell them how they feel. If we are doing flu shots again next year I am taking the entire month of October off. Maybe I'll just sit at starschmucks and watch while everyone goes postal.

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Random thoughts

Things to ponder: Why do people on welfare need their prescriptions filled in less than 20 minutes? They don't have a job. Where could they possibly need to be? Retired people are guilty of this too. And why is it necessary to fill the prescription right now, (I'm dying, I gotta have it now), when its been in their pocket/purse for a month? Why does failure to plan on their part become an emergency on my part? If you are addicted to morphine, shouldn't you just save 1 tablet so you don't have to wonder around the store in DT's while you wait for the prescription to be filled? And why do they keep having more and more babies on my dollar? Shouldn't birth control come with the welfare check? I don't care if they want 47 kids, I just don't want to pay for them. These families are defective, I want a refund.
I got yelled at on the fisrt phone call of the day, by some elderly bat who mistook me for a recording .(wonder what that says about my answering technique, nevermind) I answered the phone and she screams at me to "just answer the phone!" I screamed back that I just did. She apologized. I didn't. My bad. The next call was some lady who couldn't figure out why the recorded voice couldn't understand her. Hell, even us live ones couldn't. There were countless other times today that left me wondering why some of these people are still alive. Dumb luck? Or its just illegal to kill them. Good thing too, some of them are oh-so tempting to use for target practice. Get me through Friday with out flipping out and I'm good to go.
One more thought to ponder, all those stupid people drive. Think I'll buy a tank.

Points to Ponder

Just answer the phone! Current mood: weird
Things to ponder: Why do people on welfare need their prescriptions filled in less than 20 minutes? They don't have a job. Where could they possibly need to be? Retired people are guilty of this too. And why is it necessary to fill the prescription right now, (I'm dying, I gotta have it now), when its been in their pocket/purse for a month? Why does failure to plan on their part become an emergency on my part? If you are addicted to morphine, shouldn't you just save 1 tablet so you don't have to wonder around the store in DT's while you wait for the prescription to be filled? And why do they keep having more and more babies on my dollar? Shouldn't birth control come with the welfare check? I don't care if they want 47 kids, I just don't want to pay for them. These families are defective, I want a refund.
I got yelled at on the fisrt phone call of the day, by some elderly bat who mistook me for a recording .(wonder what that says about my answering technique, nevermind) I answered the phone and she screams at me to "just answer the phone!" I screamed back that I just did. She apologized. I didn't. My bad. The next call was some lady who couldn't figure out why the recorded voice couldn't understand her. Hell, even us live ones couldn't. There were countless other times today that left me wondering why some of these people are still alive. Dumb luck? Or its just illegal to kill them. Good thing too, some of them are oh-so tempting to use for target practice. Get me through Friday with out flipping out and I'm good to go.
One more thought to ponder, all those stupid people drive. Think I'll buy a tank.