The Mystery that is my Job
July 1st, 2008Well I am a Pharmacy Tech at CVS/Pharmacy… with Hippa laws I am not allowed to talk about patients or their medications etc. But I can tell you the Kind of people I deal with all day long… So lets get started…
First of all, The Angry Pharmacist Who by the way is so right and so funny has Nothing on our Pharmacy or the people We deal with. But I am sure that he thinks the opposite. Anyway… On a daily basis we deal with the inbred white trash that come from the down under side of our town. These types of people don’t care what they look like, they all had kids with their cousins and cousins nephews at the ripe old age of 12. These types of people are on so much medication you think they would be in a hospital. But most of these medications are over the counter, but are covered by their insurance because they have State Insurance.
We also have the men and women (mostly) that come in to get a prescription for themselves for Ibuprofen and Vicodin then come through drivethru and we tell them it will be $3. Then they start complaining while they are on their $400 cell phone and sitting in the AC in their $30,000 SUV about their $3 copay because the State told them they get everything free. So because you have state aid means you get everything free? I wonder if they go to the nail salon where they get their long ass nails all perty and said well since I have state aid I get this for free. Ya I’m sure that flies over real good.
Our pharmacy seems to always get the druggies and addicts more then the other pharmacies in our area. We (as in our store) have been in the newspaper twice this year(2008) for catching drug rings. I think this is hysterical. We have teens and young adults writing all kinds of fake prescriptions and bringing them in at night when the night pharmacist is on and getting ther Oxycodone. We had a huge drug bust that the DEA was involved in a few months back got a lot of them arrested. Then another one not to long ago. What are these people thinking? Seriously, like we’re just going to keep giving out Oxycodone for every Tom Dick and Ashalee that is around? Please its ridiculous to think that so many 19 year old girls named Ashalee or whatever have So much pain that they need to get 20 Percocet every 2 days.
Then we have the times we have to call 911… Yes we call 911 often, not because its fun to torment the people at the call center but because some odd shit happens around our store. A few months ago someone drove straight across from the Exxon across the street to our stores parking lot and rammed into a few parked cars. He had passed out or had a seizure or something. He didn’t want to go to the hospita, hmm wonder why? Drugs of course.
Then we’re all just working one day like normal and we hear the assisant manager yelling at the top of her lungs “Call 911!! Call 911!!” We freak because the first thing that comes to our minds is someone got stabbed… lol. well we call 911 and we have no idea what to tell the operator and the lady on the other end of the phone is like can you please send someone to find out whats wrong. So we do and apparantly all that was wrong was a little kid about 8 or 9 years old was stuffing his backpack full of merchandise to steal. A little over dramatic don’t ya think?
Then we have the people who are deathly sick, but come into our store anyway and just throw up on the floor… that’s it. Just puke all over and either 1 they don’t say anything or 2 they don’t apologize like its a normal thing to go into a store and puke all over the place.
The Angry Pharmacist said in his most recent post about how people send their small children in to get their meds. Yep that happens here to, but… the kicker here is that they send their kids in to get their vicodin and because its a controlled substance we cant let the 6 year old girl take the medicine for her mommy. So then the mom comes in and goes all ape shit on us because she doesn’t feel well.. hello… we have a drive thru?! Then we get the people that don’t speak english but they have their 3 year old daughter doing translations so they can drop off their prescriptions. Omg this is irritating. How horrible is it to tell a 3 year old that their parent needs to use their cream they are getting for their herpies or genital warts for 2 full weeks or it won’t go away. Seriously now?
Anyway I have nothing else to say today… Oh yea except 1 more thing. Last night I was scheduled to 9pm. At 8:55pm we check our computer where all the prescriptions come in on and there is a 10 bagger (a person that has x number of prescriptions at once) then I answer the phone and someone is calling in 15 scripts at once. Then after those are in the Que… we get another 6 of them from one person. Lord have mercy. Oh btw… most of these prescriptions are being rejected by the insurance or by our computers because #1 there are no more refills or #2 they are too soon.
Have a fabulous day
xoxo
And I haven’t cheated or anything. I’m still having back problems but the doctor seems to think its all in my head. ahaha. whatever dude lol
So sad, it sucks. I was like in tears lol I didn’t know what to do. Between my website and my online school work I didn’t know what to do. We were without a computer for like 5 days. My sister gave me money to rent one from Rent A Center. So we have this one for a month. And I just put in my request to get my refund for this session at school. So hopefully I’ll get that before I have to give this one back. I lost everything which sooo sucks. All my scraps, pixels, programs everything 
