Work and Customers: Entitled

Entitled

By anonymous - 14/11/2020 06:57 - United States - Irving

Today, where I work at a pharmacy, we were short staffed and running 4 hours behind. A lady came to drop off a new prescription. When I explained to her the wait time, she called the patient. I heard, "No, they don't look busy." Like, really? FML

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By pharmn00b - 08/07/2009 17:52 - United States

Today, at work, I was calling customers to tell them that they had prescriptions waiting to be picked up. It was a long list and every time I reached an answering machine I left our number so they could call us back. When I was finished, the pharmacist told me I been giving out our fax number. FML

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By Debi - 25/01/2022 01:59

Today, I scrambled to get out of work on the dot to go to a special pharmacy that closes at 5 pm an hour away. I arrived at 4:58. Upon reaching the door, one of the employees came and locked it in my face. Apparently, her going home early was more important than me getting my medication. FML

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By jodafish - 08/11/2011 05:45 - Canada

Today, I was yelled at by a customer because I couldn't tell her where the vitamins were in the pharmacy. The manager came and yelled at me for being lazy and incompetent. I work in the store across the street from the pharmacy. FML

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By Ugggghhh - 29/05/2018 20:41

Today, I was that person in the pharmacy that held the line up for 25 minutes. When I got home, I realized I left my prescriptions in the shopping cart in the store's parking lot. FML

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By ihateoldmagazines - 27/01/2011 21:31 - United States

Today, I went to the doctor's office for an appointment. After waiting for ages, I asked the receptionist what the delay was. Apparently, I had no standing appointment today. This is coming from the same receptionist who checked me in nearly two hours ago. FML

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By tired of my job - 29/10/2015 08:33 - Canada - Surrey

Today, I was at work, stocking shelves. A customer got mad because I was in the way of her "shopping time" and knocked down all the work I had done. FML

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By misty - 28/06/2011 16:14 - Canada

Today, after checking in and waiting for three hours to see the doctor, the receptionist said she forgot about me because she didn't see me. She asked me to come back tomorrow. I was sitting right in front of her. FML

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By anonymous - 16/09/2013 05:35 - United States - Hillsboro

Today, a lady stormed into the pharmacy I work at and chewed me out because the medicine I sold her the day before gave her horrible diarrhea as a "side effect". I checked, and it was the medicine she asked for - laxatives. FML

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By Anonymous - 09/12/2010 02:07 - United States

Today, I spent ages at CVS waiting for a flu shot. The main cause of holdup was a disagreement between the pharmacist and the insurance company over 4 cents. FML

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By Anonymous - 01/09/2011 06:22 - United States

Today, while working in my pharmacy, a patient told me that he sometimes wants to jump the counter and skin me alive. He has no more refills, and his doctor is out of town for the week. FML

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RichardPencil 30

Saturday 14 November 2020 17:01

So, your FML is that someone on the other end of a phone is being lied to? It's hard to do much with this. "I hope you mean EX-patient." Can anyone else do better?

raven_of_azarath 34

Saturday 14 November 2020 21:44

My experience with pharmacies as an American are you can either have it filled while you’re there (which usually entails a long-ish wait) or you can call it in and they fill it and you pick it up later. My guess is because they were short staffed, they couldn’t get the called-in prescriptions filled fast enough.

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RichardPencil 30

Saturday 14 November 2020 17:01

So, your FML is that someone on the other end of a phone is being lied to? It's hard to do much with this. "I hope you mean EX-patient." Can anyone else do better?

lev 11

Saturday 14 November 2020 20:40

must be an American thing. my prescriptions are always filled immediately, so if the pharmacy had a 4-hour backlog, it would also have a 4-hour line.

raven_of_azarath 34

Saturday 14 November 2020 21:44

Ellimac21 14

Saturday 14 November 2020 23:00

I am sorry, it may be because english is not my mother language but I don't get it? Did that lady came in with her own prescription and when you said she would have to wait for her pills/medicine, she complained that you guys don't look busy? Or was it the prescription for another patient? Sorry it may be an American thing but where I am we go to the pharmacy with our own prescription and wait in line.

RichardPencil 30

Sunday 15 November 2020 18:24

The person in the pharmacy was trying to fill the prescription of the person they were calling. That person may have been a family member of the person needing the drug, or a caretaker, or, in some states, their slave.