Shayne and the Phunny Pharmacy (Blog 2)

Hey there, my name is Shayne San Agustin can safely say with much confidence that I am on the fence about whether or not I like my job. Let’s start with the horrible aspects of it. First off, I love how people personally blame you whenever anything goes wrong. What’s this? My insurance is not covering my boner meds? You sir are the one to blame, now fix it and make things better so that I can go home and make love to the missus. Even better, What! It’s not covering my birth control? You’re an evil evil man you meanie you! Somewhere in the back of my head I’m thinking to myself that she’ll be back the next day to buy some plan B (pharmacy technician: 1, mean teenie bopper bitch : 0 ). My personal favorites are the mantras that go along the lines of “It should be there, I called it in yesterday, or I still had refills remaining” or my personal favorite “you said 15 minutes 15 minutes ago.” Ok first off, it’s not ready so no you didn’t call, if you did it would be ready now wouldn’t it? Second, sir look at the bottle: 5 jillion refills until oh what’s that? I’m sorry your refills expired LAST MONTH. We have to call the doc for more refills. As for you there Mr. waiter, we fucking called your name three times, increase the volume on your hearing aid or something. On a more serious note, I do fill pity for the people struggling to pay for their blood pressure medications. Let’s put it this way, I can tell when people are going to be bummed about their meds so I try to lighten the mood.

” Ma’am that’ll be $234.15, plus your left arm, your right leg, and your soul. And if you don’t have any of those, we’ll take your first born as down payment, that’s how we get our employees.”

Now, on the positive note about working in a pharmacy….now that I think about it, it’s actually hard to come up with some. I have a coworker that used to rush his customers just so he could service the next hottie in line. More often than not it was a plan B request so whenever I see him work his magic it’s like “here ya go babe. There’s plenty more where that came from ” , he’s a straight up player so every time I go up to him and tell him, you’re probably the one who got her pregnant to begin with….good job dude keep this up and we’ll be rolling in the dough. Honestly people, keep up the good work, we need the money.