I am the Pharmacy Technician

That about sums it up for today. I’m not sure where the rest of the week went….I’ve been in a zombie frame of mind since Monday. I’ve been kicking some major tail at work, or so I thought. I was off yesterday, and the pharmacist told me first thing this morning that they missed me and were running behind all day. See, we were hit by a winter storm the past couple of days, and as usual, the public freaks and wants all of their meds filled early. Luckily, I was enjoying my day off (winter storm or no). My fiance and I decided to adopt another cat to add to the one we already have, plus the two kids. So we spent a good portion of the day at the humane society picking out a younger cat to give our tuxedo cat a playmate.

We brought home a cute little long-haired tabby-like cat that is about 7 months old. He’s a lot more skittish than I was planning for. Tuxedo cat didn’t really appreciate the new cat right off the bat…and I still don’t think he likes the idea of sharing his humans or his litter box quite yet. In fact, there is a Litter Box Drama going on in my apartment right now as I blog. New cat poops then covers up poop, tuxedo cat watches and then for some reason feels compelled to re-cover-up the poop himself. This keeps going on.

The winter storm continued into today, and school was canceled. It was INCREDIBLY slow at the pharmacy, so when I found out that I had been exiled to the drive-thru as my workstation for the day, I opted to come home early so the kids wouldn’t be alone after the fiance left for work. Can I just say, that it is a complete and utter insult to my nine years of tech-ing to place me in the drive-thru for a whole day. I am the Senior technician of the pharmacy and the only one that can take voice mails and transfers, etc. I know just about every in-and-out of insurance insanity, so that I can prevent it from occurring at the point of sale, provided that I am in the position to do so. But in the drive-thru, I am reduced down to near cashier status. I do nothing but scan and swipe credit cards all day. This is a complete waste of everything I know. ……Of course, I have also learned over the years that the drive-thru can be a position of ultimate power. One could, if they so chose, scan EVERY script that comes in through the drive thru as a “waiter”. That is A LOT of damn waiting scripts.

I am THE Technician. I don’t have a PharmD, but I have nine years of front line technician experience. I know just enough to make or break your day. Just try me.

Oh yeah….we haven’t decided on a name for the new kitty. I don’t believe in naming pets stupid names like “Pebbles” or “Tiger”, or whatever other pansy name you can add on here for yourself. I think we’ll wait around a couple of more days and see what New Cat is like. But for my own sake…you’ll probably never see their real names on the blog.