Excitement at the alma mater

This happened at the old Sam U yesterday. I can't believe I missed gunfire (even if it was just at a tire). My days there weren't nearly that exciting. Even with Big Shady around.

30 Years of Big Shady

After working 44 hours in 4 days (Sunday-Wednesday), I'm headed out of town. I've been looking forward to this weekend for a long time. I get to celebrate 30 years of Big Shady -- her birthday is next month! We're converging on her sister's house -- "we" includes me, her mom, her 3 sisters, her, and her roommate.

I am so excited about a girls' weekend that in no way involves work.

Stealth Operations

The scheduler called me yesterday to see if I'd be interested in switching stores for today's shift. Hmmm. I said yes, because I'm a generally agreeable person. They couldn't tell me at first what store I was going to (apparently they'd've had to shoot me). It was totally mafia in nature, complete with me meeting the pharmacy supervisor and district manager in the parking lot of said store this morning and hovering around until they pulled the pharmacist out (I was to oversee bench operations "while they were having their meeting").
Of course, I ended up staying for the full shift, because the pharmacist was terminated. Fired. I haven't yet figured out how pharmacists get fired, because we're so in demand. However, being in demand doesn't mean I can do a crappy job. I still want to do my job and do it well. Apparently I am doing a decent job, because this particular supervisor is impressed with me (for whatever reason) and the store manager told me today that I was a breath of fresh air in their store. I am glad it's not in my district -- it's a hard store to work, since there aren't enough people to work and stay caught up.

Local Celebrity Week

As I've been floating around to different stores, I have seen 2 local celebrities this week. When the first one came in, I thought, wait, that's Mr. Cowboy! I was amazed that I was looking at the guy I see in commercials on TV. The second guy came in tonight, and I knew his name, but it didn't register at all. The front store clerk came back and told us who he was, and I realized that D-man has mentioned his name before in passing, saying that we needed to shop at his store.

I love local celebrities that are really nice!

Most people who come in to buy Sudafed manage to do it with out incident or comment. Today's exchange was a little different:
Exchange #1
Technician: "I need to see your driver's license."
Customer: "Oh, I don't have it."
Tech: "Well, I can't sell it to you without your license."
Customer: "Well, I come in here all the time."
Tech: "I still need your license."
Exchange #2 (same customer, after he's gone to get his license)
Technician: "Driver's license, please."
Customer: "What, do you think I'm going to make a batch with one little box?"
Tech: "I need to see your license."
Me: "The DEA requires us to do that."
Customer: "Yeah, I know."

WHY, oh, WHY do you try to make snide comments and bait us when you know what the law says?

Today was the day for morning-after pills. I had no less than 4 people come in to request them. Of course, I have to do the whole "I need to see your driver's license" thing, because it's prescription-only for girls under 17.
I don't necessarily agree with the availability of the morning-after pill, but I don't feel that it's my place to make moral judgements on people who decide they need it. It's my job to sell medicine.

Girl #1: came in to buy it without incident, and 10 minutes later, brought it back. She looked pretty distressed.

Girl #2: came in with her mom, and the conversation went a little like this:
Me: "May I help you?"
Mom: "YES."
Me: "What can I get for you?"
Mom: "MORNING AFTER PILL."
Me: "Okay." (I go and get the pill, thinking this entire time that if the mom was trying to embarrass her daughter out of having sex with her boyfriend by yelling what she needed to everyone in the store, she was going about it the entirely wrong way -- girl was already embarrassed, and I think that rebellion will probably follow a mom who is such a b****.)

Girl #3: without incident

Girl Boy #4: (I came in on the end of this exchange)
Technician: "We need her to come in."
Boy: "Oh, she's at home. We had a little accident last night." (Really? Did she break her leg and can't walk?)
Tech: "Well, we have to make sure she's over 17, so we need to see HER driver's license."
Boy: "Okay." (I keep thinking that the fact that we can sell this med to guys is a really bad idea, since it's rx only for under-17s. I really would like to know if the creepy college guy is buying it for his 16 year old girlfriend, since it's illegal.)

I hate the FLU.

I don't have it, but everyone else seems to. Tamiflu suspension is not available, so we're having to compound it. It takes a minimum of 15 minutes per prescription from typing to compounding to labeling to checking.

Someone at Roche decided that the CDC wasn't serious about the epi-pan-demic of the flu back in May, so they aren't making Tamiflu suspension at the rate we need it, or maybe they're not making it at all. Flu season has started earlier than normal, and we're running around like crazy people in the retail factory.

I'm kind of glad I can't give flu shots. I feel like that's all I would be doing.