today was monday

Why are Mondays always so horrible? The store is 24 hours. We never close but Mondays are always terrible.

If you have express pay on your profile then use it. I can not "override" it. If I could then I could potentially have lots of fun on your credit card. But if you really want to use that gift card then fine, I will take the express pay off your profile, reprint the damn labels and have the pharmacist do the consultation that the register is more than absolutely going to make me do. Fine 15 minutes of my life gone, in drive-thru no less.

$130 worth of medication... the gift card had $13.90 on it. You son of a bitch. Then you have the nerve to tell me that you want to use your express pay for the rest. No, I had to take it off your profile, so yes you will have to reach your obese hand into your purse and hand it to me you evil, annoyingly cheap bastard. I might be more forgiving for the gift card incident if you weren't driving a Lexus SUV.

Oh yes, can't forget this, why in God's name would you think being deaf and going through the drive-thru would be a good idea? Oh and then you misspell your name, your own goddamn name...

Oh and on a final note please I am not a pharmacist. So don't walk up to me, pull down your pants and say, "what will get rid of this spider bite?" ...Prayer. That was the nastiest looking thing I'd ever seen, and it looked severely aggravated, why was it aggravated you ask, oh because he tried to suck out the poison with a vacuum cleaner. Times like this I am so glad I am an intern and not the pharmacist because I get to say this sentence, "Pharmacist, you have a consultation." Take that for all those insurance calls you hand me.

Hello

Hello, I will also be contributing to this blog. I am also an intern at a large retail chain. My store is apparently somewhat high volume, but you really couldn't tell this summer. This is my 2nd summer working for them, and my 1st summer working as an intern. My pharmacist is really good about doing hands-on training and I do feel like I am learning a lot. That being said, let me also say that i'm also lazy and very impatient not a good combination in retail. I must warn that i'm not really an old man, but I might as well be... zero humor, but my girlfriend is an excellent writer and I'll be contributing from time to time.

Soap is on Aisle 2

So I have 30 minutes to go before I am off for the day, and I'm at the register and here comes what I'll refer to as a walking infection. As soon as they get within five feet of the counter I get hit with a scent that I will call eau de god awful. Now I have set the pleasant welcoming expression on my face so I will not make any offensive expressions. So they come up, I get there name and check on their prescription and thank you god its ready, unfortunately I was right in my initial assessment of them, it is an amox-clav suspension so I will have to mix it. Which means that i will be downwind of them a little bit longer.

So I mix the suspension as quickly as I can, making sure to beat the powder loose before I put any water in it to avoid any troublesome clumping. As I'm mixing the tech in drive-thru is freed up so she takes the next customer in line and the walking infection asks, "do you guys sell liquor?"

Well a new tech is at the filling counter and just loud enough for us to hear she says, "nope but the soap is on aisle 2."
...all i can think in that moment is please do not have let them have heard her. Apparently prayer works. or maybe there was enough dirt to block the sound waves because the person takes their prescription and walks out of the store.

Unfortunately the smell lingers until we attack it with some neutralizer. ::sigh:: at least they didn't have any questions.

The beginning

Recently me, my boyfriend, and the rest of my study group all became interns at different retail pharmacies. And I learned why when I said I might be interested in retail for my career I got that pitying, "poor stupid intern" look. So after reading a few blogs I decided that I might as well throw my experiences in as well, along with that of my friends as well whenever they feel like contributing.