25 lessons I have learned from working six months at a pharmacy.

[Bramblerose]

While it does contain 2mg/mL DXM, it also contains guaifenesin, an expectorant, so the would-be robotripper will not retain the syrup long enough to experience significant psychoactive effects.

Oh, I don't know about that. My co-dependent x-roomie's co conspirator slugged down a lot of the stuff and called to tell her about the giant pink bats before passing out.

Another friend's mom is allergic to the stuff and she has the pink bat experience, which makes me wonder if Awful Boyfriend wasn't allergic as well.

[Plaidman]

While it does contain 2mg/mL DXM, it also contains guaifenesin, an expectorant, so the would-be robotripper will not retain the syrup long enough to experience significant psychoactive effects.

But you'll feel something, all right, and I don't just mean the toilet rim.

Thats why you want Robitussin COUGH, which ONLY contains Dextromehtorphan. You don't want the stuff with the additional crap.

I wasn't puking on it. I was halfawake, halfsleep halligencing on my bed while having my cat meow and push at me. Then I was laying down, and watching the same family guy for hours on end while feeling myself melt into my bed, being reborn.

[Andara Bledin]

20: You CAN slap the customers without getting fired.
17: Not so sure about #20.

Ok. I want the story behind these.

28: Women younger then you think they can get away with calling you 'love' or 'darl' or 'sweetie' then get offended when you point to your name badge and say 'the name's Just Ace'

Ok, that made me giggle.

I can't for the life of me remember where it's from, but my subconscious tells me it's giggle-worthy.

^-.-^

[depechemodefan]

27: Asking the customer if their personal information written on the script by the doctor is correct and they says "Yes" can sometimes mean "no it's not" But you don't know this till you are calling out the name 'SMITH SCRIPT FOR SMITH' and the customer looks at you funny then they realise it's them but they changed their name last week, two years ago, 'oh thats my married name i divorced the idiot years ago but never got around to changing my name till last week he was such a wanker and a druggie, no good father........' as her child is standing next to her

One day a woman came up and gave a prescription for "Bobbie Smith", her husband. it was run through and it came up $90. She said he had insurance, why didn't it cover it. After a few questions, the answe was: his name on the insurance is Robert Smith.

I tell her something like, "His prescription said Bobbie, but his insurance in under Robert. We have to run it through again under his correct name."

I don't know what that fuckin' cunt said to the manager of the store, but he called me down and told me I will start working the front register from now on. So I never went back.

I know I was written up 2x before for not dusting my shelves (um, we are fucking busy, do you know how I"m going to get the time to dust them? When normally I do dsut them?) I don't know, the store was probably needing to let some pharm techs go but figured bullshit write ups were the way to go.

[Grrrrrrr]

I don't know, the store was probably needing to let some pharm techs go but figured bullshit write ups were the way to go.

Sadly, there is a lot of that going around. So they just fired you as a tech, but kept you as a cashier?

[depechemodefan]

Sadly, there is a lot of that going around. So they just fired you as a tech, but kept you as a cashier?

Yeah, they wanted me to be a cashier but I never went back.

This was 15 years ago, though. I never went to tech school or took a tech exam but now there are books on taking the test to be a tech and college-level courses to become a tech. I don't know what more techs are doing today then years ago.

[sarasquirrel]

24: You cannot hide from customers in the restroom, and bathroom stalls have locks on them for a reason.

--ive tried hiding in backrooms to avoid certain customers, but you can only hide for so long....

22: There is a seven year old on youtube who can solve the Rubik's Cube in 18 seconds with his eyes closed, but I could starve to death in the time it takes a senior citizen to sign their name on an electronic signature device.

-- yes old people take forever...but i find once people finally get to the register, they are no longer in a rush. while im starving at the register, and had to ring even though i had food in my hands becuase there was a line, people then start to take their sweet time, and dont know HOW to slide their card, enter a pin, get cashback, or sign

21: Whoever coined the phrase "Southern Hospitality" was probably being sarcastic.

--im not from the south, but whoever said the customer is always right should be shot

18: "I am never coming here again" is stupid people code for "See you next week".

--it happens

4: This is NOT Sparta.

--no it isnt, but when i get into work my boss welcomes me and says "welcome to hell on earth"

3: Do not ask the pharmacist for everythings "street value", and do not refer to drugs by their "street names".

--depending on who the pharmacist is for the night i might go and ask them

2: "The pharmacy closes at 9pm sharp" is somehow interpreted as "Do not come one minute before 8:55".

-- rx closes at 8, and its a slow one, but everyone comes in at 7:55

and i dont even work in the pharmacy haha

[DerangedHermit]

Didn't the guy who coined "the customer is always right" die penniless?