Extremely informative grocery store review.
Posted Dec 15, 2010, 6:25 PM UTC
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What the fuck... why wouldn't you go to a 24 hour pharmacy if it's almost closing time elsewhere?
What if the blinds were already closed when you got there. Would this guy still be bitching?
Its not the guy behind the counter's fault this dude couldn't get a ride sooner.
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He didn't even give his friend a couple Valiums :(
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Bad planning on your part does not an emergency on mine make.
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Only go to Walgreens if you want a 50/50 shot of them staying open, but a 100% chance that they'll charge you 300% more no matter what time of day it is.
1 month subscription at Walgreens for my medicine: $130
3 month subscription at Costco for my medicine: $50
Both of them are the same 'generic' brand. Yes, walgreens was charging $130/m for generic pills.
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I've vowed to never go to Walgreens again after a bad experience with incompetent pharmacists:
I went to Walgreens two years ago to fill a prescription for a vaccine I needed before traveling abroad. This particular vaccine needed to be stored at a certain temperature before injecting. The tech handed me the boxes and told me to keep them in my fridge until my doctor's appointment. I called the clinic the next day to make an appointment and told them that I already had the vaccine in my possession. This is more or less how that conversation went:
Receptionist: "Wait, what? They actually gave it to you to take home?"
Me: "Yeah, I have it in my dorm fridge right now."
Her: "Hold on......Yeah, we can't legally administer that vaccine to you now. You're going to have to take it back to them."
Me: "lolwut?"
Her: "The vaccine needs to be kept within a certain temperature range to remain viable and safe for use. State law requires meds like this to be transferred directly from the pharmacy to the clinic within a certain time frame and storage conditions. They broke this chain by giving you the vaccine, so we can't administer it."
I went back to Walgreens after talking to the clinic to try to remedy the situation.
Me: "Yeah, you wrongly gave me this vaccine when you should have sent it directly to the clinic. Now it's useless."
Tech: "No, it's fine, we do it all the time with that vaccine."
Me: "No, you don't, there's only one clinic in town that administers it and they only accept it from a courier."
Tech: "Well, we can't take it back, that would be illegal. We can, however, sell you another set of vials."
Me: "Can I speak to your boss?"
At this point, the tech gets her boss and explains the situation. They have a short convo about six feet from me:
Pharmacist: "Well, it's just a simple injection. We could do it right here."
Tech: "Yeah, or he could just administer it to himself, since it requires multiple injections."
Me: "How about no?" ಠ_ಠ
Tech: "Well, our head pharmacist is on vacation for another week, so I guess you'll have to wait until then."
I excuse myself and make two phone calls. First, and within earshot of the wankers behind the counter, I call my mom and ask her to look up the number for the state health office. Next, I call the clinic and explain that the pharmacists won't take the vaccine back and told me that I would have to spend another couple hundred bucks for another course of the vaccine.
Thankfully, the clinic called the pharmacy directly to bitch them out and have them send a fresh batch straight to the doctor.
tl;dr I'd rather have a rabid kitten play tether-ball with my nuts than get a scrip filled at Walgreens.
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That is a horrifying story. Those people should not be allowed to handle medication. Did you call the state health office and report them? What happened?
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I probably should have reported them, in retrospect; at the time I was more concerned with just getting the shots. As TrustiestMuffin wrote, there's a big difference between pharmacists and pharm techs. The pharm tech that I dealt with was terrible, and now that I think about it, I don't think I ever actually spoke with a pharmacist. What happened was that the pharmacy took my vials back and sent a new set to the clinic after the clinic called to bitch them out.
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That's like 900% more, disgusting...
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Walgreens does have pretty good deals on cigarettes, at least in my area. Never bothered having a script filled there, though.
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Costco has the best prescription prices I have seen, and you don't need a membership to take advantage of them
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What an asshole, always share your Valium.
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pharmacists and pharmacy technicians... two very different jobs.
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It's insulting to be confused between the two.
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It's probably more insulting to suggest that the entire job consists of "counting brightly colored pills". I guess the five year program to become a pharmacist consists of lots and lots of counting exercises!
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Screw this guy, he's a pansy who thinks he'll get an infection in 24 hours from his minor surgery (testical removal?).
Time to sack up, and stop blaming the tired guy who's worked all day.
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Drop the 'tude, dude.
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If he got there two minutes before they closed, they are still open. Fill it. The hours aren't 9am to 8:58, it's 9am to 9pm. If it takes you so long to fill it, work faster.
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And this is why customer service sucks today. Rather going the extra for the customer, you basically say no I'm closing early--go somewhere else. You make it about you the employee rather than the person who ultimately pays the bills: the customer.
We are not talking about taking an hour extra, just a few minutes. That's how you get and keep customers for life, by doing the small things to help them out.
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if restaurants are open until 9pm, do they let you in for dinner at 8:55? HELL no.
Work faster? How about this: you can have it done RIGHT, or you can have it done FAST. Not both.
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if restaurants are open until 9pm, do they let you in for dinner at 8:55? HELL no.
Actually a lot of restaurants will. It's dickish, but it's not verboten.
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First of all, this is terrible. Shouldn't have happened. But so that the profession is not sullied, let me make something clear. Pharm Tech's do not go to pharmacy school. They only need a HS diploma and take a test you could pass with minimal studying (whether they take the hipocratic oath, I'm not sure). PHARMACISTS go to professional school for 4 years (some continue on to residencies), do take an oath, and should definitely be willing to fill this, especially for Antibiotics. Most pharm tech's I've worked are jaded from working the job for so long, which is who they ran into. Coming at this time at night, if the Rx passed through insurance, at minimum it would take 5 minutes to fill. Gives the profession a bad name
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Yes, but some of the older pharmacists may only be registered pharmacists. They went through school before they started issuing PharmDs, I believe.
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wait... who's doing what to Sasha Grey?
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Way to fucking not understand Crass or the Dead Kennedys.
That Dead Kennedys song is about the ignorance of Americans to global events. It has fucking nothing to do with work ethic.
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I don't know who you're addressing, there's almost no chance whoever wrote that sees this thread.
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You should post a comment in the thread emphasizing that you are not the person who posted the review, because almost every comment is directed at you.
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I just looked through the comments, and there are 2, maybe 3, comments like that. I don't know why anybody would assume I took the time to write that over a year ago, post it on yelp, take a screenshot, then decide to post it on reddit today.
There are some idiots who care about karma like it's worth more than the contents of a litter box who may do something like that, but I would hope they're not that pervasive.
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Well the top few are, at least. I just hope people aren't downvoting the original post because they assume it's your personal opinion and they disagree. (obviously one shouldn't downvote just because one disagrees, but people do.) Also, I know I didn't look at the date when I read it, and I doubt most people do.
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Yeah, I knew it wasn't you. But those references had me ragin. Wasn't thinking straight.
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Bonus points for sinecure. And Skinner box.
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The Skinner Box too caught my eye.
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That's intense. Fuckin nihilists.
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I wonder if it produced a result.
I tend to do my complaining in person. On the spot, I'm not always as artistic as I'm capable of being. I may write a letter or two and see what comes of it.
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What would you complain about, specifically?
"Dear Corporate: can you please discipline, or, better yet, fire one of your employees, who decided to get off work when his shift ended, and did not, in violation of the labor laws, volunteer to stay overtime."
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No, I probably wouldn't complain about something like that. When I show up two minutes before closing or a minute after closing I pretty much blame myself for not getting there earlier.
When I complain it is usually about poor service. In this case there was no service to complain about.
It was just a good letter. It was funny. I liked the language.
Defensive much?
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So how many of you went and listened to Holiday in Cambodia after reading this. I did.
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Haven't finished w/ Crass yet, but it's next.
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Once had a very similar situation at a Publix pharmacy. The prescription had been called in, not written out, so I couldn't go elsewhere.
However, the Publix pharmacist, who had already shut down his POS terminal, was more then willing to boot it back up and stay open an extra 15 minutes in order to fill the prescription.
Not every company is run by douchebags.
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Correction on this: just because a prescription is called into a pharmacy does not mean automatically mean it cannot be transferred elsewhere. While the laws may vary from state to state - the general concensus is that prescriptions can be transferred (with exceptions for controlled substances) between pharmacies via telephone. So a written prescription is not required for a transfer.
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If the pharmacy currently holding the prescription is closed, how would you go about transferring it?
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Holiday in Cambodia came on while I was reading that. Mind=Blown.
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tl; dr Spoiled douchebag gets upset at employee for not accommodating douchebag's poor planning, goes from castigating employee to general rant that employees need to work harder to please spoiled douchebags.
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they also don't accept most medicaid/low income assisted health care.
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From a totally bookworm standpoint. I love this dude's tone, and the 180 it turns when he gets to the safeway. This could be a "modern short story" or something, but I hope that genre never comes into existence due to its brother "modern art."
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American definition of work ethic: If you don't willingly work for your employer more than they ask, if you don't willingly perform free overtime, then you're a slacker. This is a dog-eat-dog world; anyone who is employed must be extremely happy that they have a job, and be willing to do whatever it takes to keep it, regardless of currently work laws.
Yes, that guy should have stayed a few minutes over and fill the prescription. But only out of desire to help a fellow human being, and not out of any implicit obligation to serve his employer even more than he already is.
Why should the guy have stayed? 2 minutes before closing, there is a good chance his register was closed and he already have everything put away. The patient could have had his doctor call ahead, gone to another pharmacy, or made arrangements ahead of time to make sure he was there well before closing.
Well, he should have stayed if he could have helped him. If not, then not. In either case, he should have consider staying only to help a fellow human, and not out of obedience to his employer.
Maybe he did consider it and wanted to help, but he already turned in the till to the front end, shut the computers off, and all that. A lot of grocery stores have strict hours. By staying extra to help this person, he could have risked getting written up for staying late without approval.
Perhaps - I'm not arguing this point at all.
I argued the following two points, specifically:
If he was able to, he should have stayed and helped, just to help a fellow human.
Regardless of whether he was able to, his motivation for staying should not have included loyalty to his employer, like the guy writing the review alleges.
Sounds like he closed his register 2 minutes too early to me.
Or like he followed orders to be clocked out at a certain time and not filling prescriptions late.
agree 100% with this.
Nice stereotype. I'd say it's more along these lines (and the current economy does have an effect):
If you're hired to do a job, you do it. If there are certain hours, you work them. If you don't like what you have to put up with, quit. There still are people in this world willing to work. You are to be commended for being one of those people, instead of just being a prole on the dole, as Harrison would say. However, don't half-ass it, because then you're just causing problems and taking up space.
Personally, when I hire someone, all I ask is that they do what I ask (within reason) and work as hard as I do. They don't have to work harder, but they should as long and as hard as me. They'll be compensated accordingly, and I won't work them to death.
You do understand that your presentation of the point in fact contradicts the OP? The OP did not want the employee to just work his assigned working hours; he specificly wanted him to stay over just to fill his prescription, effectively forcing the employee into working free overtime.
Moreover, he opined that failing to work such free overtime means that the employee in question is lazy and should be removed and replaced by the panhandlers staying outside. Note again - the employee was not lazy because he failed to work his assigned hours, but because he failed to stay over and perform work for free.
As an American, I was presenting an opinion of work that was a little less damning than the parent poster's. My opinion isn't the same as that of the person in the submission.
I understand. Some do have an opinion close to yours, but in my experience - and of course both of us are speaking on anecdotal level here - quite a few unfortunately think more along the lines of "you owe your life to the company, which is putting bread on your table, so work as much as they ask and don't bark".