If a cash register and an insurance card is so damned befuddling...

[MonkeyFunk]

you probably shouldn't be working around the heavy drugs.

Or maybe that's the cause of the befuddlement.

I swear, my pharmacy placed an ad reading "Idiots wanted: work at your own pace. Experience in reading, human interaction and counting not required."

[KitchenWitch]

1. OOOH a redux of the Pharmacy flamefest.

:popcorn:

[MonkeyFunk]

2. There was a pharmacy flamefest?

Nobody told me! :cry:

[KitchenWitch]

3. Here you go!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=7850329

[MonkeyFunk]

5. ah, thanks!

Whenever I'd had to deal with the pharmacists themselves, I found them courteous, efficient and helpful. It's the clerks.

I'm there to get meds for my severe back pain. So I have to sit in the little chairs while she spends 15 minutes helping the guy in front of me - who just had to pick up some already-filled prescriptions. Then, just as she's almost done with the guy, another guy walks up to the line. She has SEEN ME SITTING THERE FOR 15 MINUTES - and looks at him and says "Can I help you?". So I have to gently point out that I was waiting and get up to the counter.

The 'scripts are already filled. But I have a new insurance card. But she doesn't even ask about that card I'm holding in my hand, right up on the counter where she can see it. She rings up the order and says "$143". I point out that I have an insurance card. You could see the lights turn off in her head. Just utterly stumped about what to do now. Trying to "unring" the order. She tries something - it doesn't work. She tries the same thing about 30 more times. Each effort no more successful than the one before it.

So she goes to get help. Evidently the help is in another state.

Meanwhile, the customer who's there because HE CAN BARELY FUCKING STAND UP is stuck at the counter the whole time.

Every time I go to this pharmacy - and yes, it's a Walgreens - the clerks are dumber and dumber.

Last time, I had a prescription that needed the doctor's re-confirmation. I go in and ask if they have it and she says it needs the doctor's authorization. I say "Yes, I know. Did you call them to get it?" You would've thought I asked her why penguins splay their forests in odd-numbered Augusts. The question just had no meaning to her whatsoever.

But she wasn't there today - I think I got her dumber sister.

[OmahaBlueDog]

7. The only redeeming qualities of Walgreens are

1) They are everywhere. Invariably, I fly somewhere, open my case, and realize my albuterol is on my nightstand 5 states away, where it's doing me a helluva lot of good. I actually have had Walgreens solve this problem for me

2) The one near me is 24/7/365. This is almost always true of the Walgreens nearest to any hospital

But once I needed an inhaler refill, and a prescription from my GP was still valid, but the one from my allergist had expired, and you'd have thought I was asking them to perform calculus getting them to figure this one out.

[MonkeyFunk]

8. I live in a small town

there's no 24-hour pharmacy, but that'd be nice.

But there's probably one with 30 miles if it were really an emergency.

But yes, that's why I use Walgreens. Cuz they're everywhere, they have the info their computer, so it's just easier.

[OmahaBlueDog]

4. Here is my pet pharmacy peeve

I swear that it has become easier to:

- buy booze
- buy guns & ammo
- purchase real estate if no loans are involved

than it is to buy a box of stinking SUDAFED!

To buy Sudafed, I have to show my id, wait for the clerk to enter all the information off of my id, then sign a waiver stating that I won't make meth instead of stopping my sneezing and runny nose, then I still have to pay for the stuff.

[MonkeyFunk]

6. No kidding

sudafed and cigarettes - they must now be kept locked up and the CEO has the only key.

[qnr]

9. Um, was it an audio ad? n/t

[MonkeyFunk]

10. I didn't say she COULDN'T read

it just clearly wasn't something she very used to.

[qnr]

11. I wasn't referring to her specifically, but to the ad, since it said reading wasn't required :) n/t

[MonkeyFunk]

12. pfffttt...

obviously, somebody else would read the ad and think of the idiot next door and read it to her.

"Hey Dumbellina! I just came across a job that would be perfect for you! When you're done eating that dried dog shit, come on over and I'll read it to you."

[qnr]

13. Sounds about how it might work. The audio ad was just an idle thought anyway n/t