Work: Today, one of my customers told me he was going to kill himself...

By HeatherFeatherB - 05/01/2016 03:27 - United States - Mundelein

Today, one of my customers told me he was going to kill himself when I explained to him that I wasn't going to be able to deliver him the gallon of milk he wanted. I work in a pharmacy, dispensing medication. 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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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 masterdisaster - 11/04/2009 04:07 - United States

Today, one of our regular customers came in and was telling me he bought an assault rifle. I told him not to go off his meds and shoot up the store, as a joke. Later, my manager told me that the guy is on antidepressants and was discharged from the military for being "mentally unfit." FML

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By imaginary coelacanth - 20/12/2020 14:02

Today, a customer came into the store I work at to ask why I hadn't killed myself yet. A month prior, that same customer told me to kill myself. All I did was compliment her shirt. FML

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Customers from hell

By GirlWhyyyy - 09/08/2023 14:00

Today, I reduced a customer to tears and she had a tantrum, saying that nobody loves her, her life is a joke, and she’d be better off dead. This ordeal happened to grab the attention of my manager who was nearby. All I did was tell her that an item she wanted was sold out and offered to help her order it online. FML

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All fax, no printer

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 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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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 Madokami - 30/01/2017 11:37 - United States - Kingston

Today, a customer became irrationally angry and called me a "stupid bitch", all because she couldn't use the coupon clearly marked "30% off grocery items" on a prescription from our 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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laurenemilyy 17

Tuesday 5 January 2016 10:49

Some people take suicide too lightly when they use it as a form of blackmail OP. I'm sure he won't and if he does you wouldn't be to blame!

SuperLemon99 9

Tuesday 5 January 2016 10:50

I'm pretty sure he said that just so he could get his gallon of milk. Doubt he would've committed suicide though.

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asakadelis 7

Tuesday 5 January 2016 12:17

Well it looks like he was already at the store

graceinsheepwear 33

Tuesday 5 January 2016 12:18

That's when you have the police check on him. If he needs help, he'll get it, and if he needs his bluff called, that'll happen instead. He needs to learn not to play with a medical professional, if that's what he was doing.

AyeJay101 25

Tuesday 5 January 2016 12:35

As a pharmacist, it becomes your duty to talk them out of it... It's hard work. Hope the situation turned out for the better.

GeorgiaBea 28

Tuesday 5 January 2016 23:38

It absolutely is not their responsibility. They are not psychiatric professionals.

AyeJay101 25

Wednesday 6 January 2016 2:21

Some places make it your responsibility... Like at first pharmacists only sold and advised drugs, now they're giving multiple shots, and CVS is now slowly converting into a clinic+grocery store

GeorgiaBea 28

Wednesday 6 January 2016 2:33

I get that. Really. But to offer psych evals when they are not trained falls outside of their scope of practice and they could lose their license. That's why you call the police, and the police will take them to the hospital- to be evaluated by psych docs... It used to happen all the time at the group home I worked for...