I've just had the maddest day
at work in the whole six months of my employment. And need to talk to some sane people.

I and my colleagues have just spent 11 straight hours relocating our dispensary to a temporary one at the other end of the shop while the old one is refitted (because we've been bought out by a big company that sounds a bit like "Coots"). Our OSOM is still in training and she was left on her own for the first time with us, and the only thing she was good at was bossing us around for no reason... our pharmacist was in a wibbly wobbly world of her own (as usual, but even more so today - displacement I think)... so while we kept trying to get the job done (amid workmen of all kinds) they both had their own ideas about what needed doing and we all just took it in turns to redo work that had already been done wrong... The pharmacist wanted the drugs in order of generic name and the OSOM was putting them in order of brand name, whereas the dispensary technician actually wanted them in order of the names usually used on prescriptions, which is a mixture of both, which only she knows off by heart - but she's the one who needs to use them so we were more inclined to do it the way she wanted even though it meant asking her questions every two minutes. Halfway through the day the OSOM announced that the workmen needed to rip out the dispensary immediately and so instead of moving the drugs methodically in alphabetical order to their new temporary home, we had to just chuck them all in boxes and get them out of there as quickly as possible. Thousands of boxes of drugs all over the floor later we had them all back in order... probably... I guess we'll find out tomorrow when we try to dispense something...

I am not looking forward to tomorrow. I'm the only member of floor staff in tomorrow, so I'm the one who has to deal with all the pissed off/self-righteous/nosy/opiniated customers. I don't get paid enough for the shit I will be taking.

Anyway, that's all boring crap. Just had to get it out.

And I am proud to say that despite maximum temptation I did not take any of the drugs myself, and nor did I attempt to surreptitiously medicate any of the people who were driving me insane all day.

Funniest line of the day today:

Me: Does Replens go under R for Replens, or V for Vaginal Moisturiser?
Dispensary Technician: Hmm, well R because although it's a brand name that's what they put on prescriptions.
Me: Well Jennie put it here because she thought it might go under V for vagina.
DT: No... but I can see where she's coming from *pause* I should NOT have said that.
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Sun 17 May 2009, 22:49, 6 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I can't believe
there is not a standard layout for this.
What if a locum pharmacist comes in?

I hate when shit like this happens. You suggest a logical way of doing things only to be ignored.
Then 5 hours later someone suggests your way and they act like it's the best idea anyone has ever had.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 17 May 2009, 22:58, Reply)

Yay Fuzzy!
*huggles*

Well done for not taking any drugs, I think I would have started looking for the prozac :p
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Sun 17 May 2009, 23:04, Reply)

You've come to the wrong place for sanity
coz we're all insane HAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But anyway, have some

* sympathy hugs *

I'm tempted to sit in a corner of the pharmacy and give the pissed of customers a piece of my mind, and as I don't work there, I have no risk of being fired. Yay for vigilante justice!

Oh and congrats for not only avoiding the temptation to medicate your colleagues, but also for avoiding the temptation to medicate yourself.

* hugs again *
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sun 17 May 2009, 23:10, Reply)

Nail on head, Mrs L!
That's how I felt all day. I think I don't like our OSOM very much. I'd post about her being a bully but she's drained me too much today.
Also, our dispensary has been very quirky because the pharmacy had been independently owned for about 100 years, and locums (of which we have many as our pharmacist only works part time, and then wonders why she has so much work to do) are often bemused. "Coots" will attempt to standardize it all but the list they provided to use today was worse than useless... hmpf.

Badger! I'm not sure what the generic name for Prozac is (I expect that section was done when I was hiding upstairs) but I know exactly where the diazepam is now... :) Actually, I have some left over from when my ex used to get them... only a couple though, gotta make em count.

Mista, of course you're all insane, but it's the right kind of insanity :)

*huggles all*

Aah that's better.
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Sun 17 May 2009, 23:27, Reply)

The right kind of insanity
Hey, it's what we're here for ;)

* hugs again *

* hugs Badger & Bin too just for the hell of it *
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sun 17 May 2009, 23:37, Reply)

Ah, fluoxetine
The new opiate of the masses.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Mon 18 May 2009, 0:08, Reply)