Walgreens Day 2 - I salute you Major A-Hole!

So, I made it through the first year and now I'm officially an intern. Just got my license in the mail yesterday. Already put in 19 hours our two days at the 24-hour Walgreens I am working at in Salem. This store is crazy busy, but constantly having something to do makes the day go by really fast. The training modules I have to complete as part of training though is pretty lame. To do that, I have to sit/stand at the back of the pharmacy watching videos from who knows what year and answering questions about the content.

Let the fun begin

I gotta tell ya though, there are some big assholes in this world and I think the majority of them can be found in the military. Some cocky, "high ranking" son-of-a-bitch comes into our store this morning around 9am trying to get a refill on his medications; one of which being...VICODIN! But anyways, the senior tech at the store is trying to help him out and finds out that the insurance won't cover it because he's refilling too soon (can you say FIEND?). When he is informed of this, he tries to pull rank on her and explain how he's some top dog and needs his drugs and threatened to sue if we didn't get the meds too him.

He decided to sit around and hassle the pharmacist and techs every once in a while, while he sat in the waiting area and probably talked smack about us to other patients. We tried our best to contact his doctor to see if he could authorize some VICODIN for him, but the pharmacist was put on hold forever probably because the asshole was calling the doctor's office on his cell non-stop and badgering them too. Around noon, he comes back to the window and says he going to come back Monday with the military police with him....pssssh....wtf the can they do about this? They would probably put him away. So we think that he's gone. WRONG. He comes back again later and demands his meds again. Boy, this went on for a good 5 hours.

He is lucky that my preceptor wasn't there or else he would have been ripped a new one cause he doesn't stand for that kinda shit. Besides, there is no law that forces a pharmacist to dispense to everyone. I really wonder why he didn't just try to go somewhere else if we "weren't doing our jobs."

My feet are fucking killing me!

Good News

I finally picked up a Wii today at Costco when I was getting my tires rotated and balanced. Woot!