Categories: uncategorized
Date: 29 April 2004 12:00:44
that Thursday afternoons SUCK big time.
Every Thursday afternoon is rife with disasters, angry people and other not so good things. Things that happened today:
1) Three people cried because one of the opiate analgesics is out of stock. One yelled at me and left. The other two finally allowed me to call their doctors and sort out something else. This also involved walking to the medical centre around the corner to pick up the scripts (the patients were unable to get them themselves and it's not a good idea to trust scripts for that sort of thing to the post) and borrow another box of the substitute drug because we had already dispensed all ours due to the out of stock situation.
2) Bloody delivery boy #1 didn't show up. Apparently he quit. But er... didn't tell us. Thanks.
3) Bloody delivery boy #2 quit. BD#2 is an older man who wanders around the streets of our town every day and visits our pharmacy multiple times each day to say hello (this gets a bit annoying) and who we roped in to do deliveries when all the other boys bailed on us one week. He had a somewhat scary attraction to me (apparently this happens with all female staff members). However he's been ignoring me for the last week and today told the other pharmacist that he's unable to work for us anymore because of me. I'm interested to know what I've done. However I am happy to have lost the second stalker of my short life.
4) Mrs Old Woman Who Always Sounds Like She's Dying called to say she needed her prescriptions made up. One of these was a cream that I have to make myself. No time for such trifles!
5) I had to go and do half the deliveries myself on foot. I have decided most can wait til tomorrow but there were a few that needed to go tonight.
6) On my way back from the deliveries I was berated by the hairdresser whose photos have been lost by the photo people. I HATE PHOTOS. They are the bane of my existence. Truly. Why do the photo people always lose the photos of difficult customers?
7) Various angry people who only speak Italian came in with scripts for things which are out of stock. EVERYTHING is out of stock. I'm terribly sorry about it but if you refuse to have a different brand there is not a lot I can do. It's not my fault. Really. The manufacturer appears to have forgotten how to make drugs. No I don't know what they are doing. Maybe they've decided to make fair floss instead.
8) I didn't get anything done that was on my list of things that "Absolutely must be done by Friday".
Hmph.