Hey, Tots, been thinking about overworked folks in the pharmacies and was thinking about dropping off a nice treat for pharmacy staff. However, I don’t eat trash food and don’t support feeding garbage to others. What would actually be a nice and healthful thing to receive in a pharmacy? I’m not even down with fruit baskets because fructose metabolism is balls. Suggestions appreciated, my local pharmacists are dealing with hell beyond these vaccinations. The citirs keep pushing their unhoused, untreated and unwell off onto the unincorporated areas. Crime is off the charts as people try to survive without services. Our pharmacists are having to go to work in stores with boarded up windows. It is royally fucked up but we are the magnet for homeless deon around the nation. Makes me wonder if the red states are still putting their problems onto buses and sending them out west? That used to be SOP, wonder if it still is? Anyway, back to the point: ideas?
Thank you for being there for the rest of us. I know words only sound hollow next to the sweat labor and feeling unappreciated at times. Please take plenty of self-care.
I was finally able to snag an appointment for my booster tomorrow given the current demand. It's crazy how far ahead we have to schedule.
The long time pharmacists left my local Safeway. Last year, they did not have the staff to do any shots. I wear a mask, and say please and thank you. We are grateful for you!
Oh wow.I didn't know that about you. I'm very glad that people are coming in for their boosters and vaccines, I'm sorry for the personal toll it's taking on you.
PLEASE try and take some personal time if you can. Your physical and mental can be compromised by being over worked and exhausted. Please take care of yourself.
It's also a good reminder to all of us who are receiving our vaccines and boosters, to exercise patience and be grateful to those providers.
Thanks for the kind words! It is demoralizing and so many have left for other jobs in the last 2.5 years due to the absolutely horrid conditions. Today as I was being overrun with walk-ins (12 in a row in addition to the 8 appointments) I was told “work harder“ by a dude walking in without an appointment when I explained that 20 people were in line ahead. In addition to the shots, we fill about 600 rx/day. This completely demeaning and unrealistic comment came to me at 4:35pm. My shift was supposed to end at 4, and I’m already working 52 hours this week! Oh yeah, and the most insulting part was that I wasn’t even being paid for the time I was there after 4, because we are already over budget and there were no hours to pay me!!!!
I did tell the guy he could try somewhere else, but he insisted on staying and being an ass.
I almost wanted to stay until he was up just so I could give him his covid shot with a 20 gauge needle!
If you hadn't been in the store, a good old right fist to his mouth would have been appropriate.
But of course you can't..but it sure would be fun to see a pharmacist turn around and actually deck the SOB's who think they're so fucking funny. Then put him in your coat, lead him into the pharmacy and say,
"There you go! Think you can do my job? Go right for it. I'm done!"
Thanks guys for that positive outpouring. Lately I’ve had to readjust my BS- tolerance to next to zero. last week, someone called my tech at the drive-through “A stupid Cunt” because they had to wait in line for their covid test. I pretty much lost it and marched over, cancelled their appointment and told them if I ever saw their name on my schedule again, I would cancel it again! They then started bitching and crying that they were needing the test to fly to visit a dying relative.
my answer? ”i don’t care!”
I know this story absolutely doesn’t Surprise Mary Hilton, but many of you guys would be shocked and disgusted by the constant daily abuse.
You were perfectly within your rights because I would have done it, myself! Anyone who wants to berate or insult staff should be cut off at the pass and thrown the hell out of the pharmacy.
Hey, Tots, been thinking about overworked folks in the pharmacies and was thinking about dropping off a nice treat for pharmacy staff. However, I don’t eat trash food and don’t support feeding garbage to others. What would actually be a nice and healthful thing to receive in a pharmacy? I’m not even down with fruit baskets because fructose metabolism is balls. Suggestions appreciated, my local pharmacists are dealing with hell beyond these vaccinations. The citirs keep pushing their unhoused, untreated and unwell off onto the unincorporated areas. Crime is off the charts as people try to survive without services. Our pharmacists are having to go to work in stores with boarded up windows. It is royally fucked up but we are the magnet for homeless deon around the nation. Makes me wonder if the red states are still putting their problems onto buses and sending them out west? That used to be SOP, wonder if it still is? Anyway, back to the point: ideas?
Thank you for being there for the rest of us. I know words only sound hollow next to the sweat labor and feeling unappreciated at times. Please take plenty of self-care.
I was finally able to snag an appointment for my booster tomorrow given the current demand. It's crazy how far ahead we have to schedule.
The long time pharmacists left my local Safeway. Last year, they did not have the staff to do any shots. I wear a mask, and say please and thank you. We are grateful for you!
Oh wow.I didn't know that about you. I'm very glad that people are coming in for their boosters and vaccines, I'm sorry for the personal toll it's taking on you. PLEASE try and take some personal time if you can. Your physical and mental can be compromised by being over worked and exhausted. Please take care of yourself. It's also a good reminder to all of us who are receiving our vaccines and boosters, to exercise patience and be grateful to those providers.
Thanks guys for that positive outpouring. Lately I’ve had to readjust my BS- tolerance to next to zero. last week, someone called my tech at the drive-through “A stupid Cunt” because they had to wait in line for their covid test. I pretty much lost it and marched over, cancelled their appointment and told them if I ever saw their name on my schedule again, I would cancel it again! They then started bitching and crying that they were needing the test to fly to visit a dying relative. my answer? ”i don’t care!”
I know this story absolutely doesn’t Surprise Mary Hilton, but many of you guys would be shocked and disgusted by the constant daily abuse.