Zoggite
Boy you do have a nice job! I have to label, dispense and check stuff on my own lots of the time! There is often only one staff member in the dispensary, and that's me!
OK I worked at one like that last week, and I only did 160 items, but on your own it can seem like a lot. Especially when the dot matrix label printer keeps going on the blink, and you couldn't even get five quid for it on ebay!
On the confidentiality front I have worked at some stores where you do dispense right in front of the customer. The general idea was Viagra was done in the back, but I often wondered about other drugs. Would you want the whole world knowing you took Prozac (not that that's anything to be ashamed of) well I wouldn't. The staff said nobody complained. You also had the trouble of errors, I used to say to the technician "would you like to look at that again". Sometimes, especially when we used big tubs of drugs, people would pick up the pot of 500 niitrazepam tablets and say "they are mine". All good fun hey!
I had been doing a fairly regular day for a nice young guy from somewhere in Africa (sorry didn't like to ask him where). I went there about two weeks ago and found he's left. Seems some methadone addict lost his temper and threw bottles of stuff at him. He called the police but was too afraid to make a statement, the staff told me. He just left, as he was so scared. The company should have been more honest with him. The general feeling talking to staff/manager was he was a "bit of a wimp". It seems you have to be a kung fu expert now!
By the way, seriously, I have learned some good self defence moves. The "swan-neck" is a great one, if you can get it on. I have had two people in this position, and one of them it took three coppers to get her in the van! Yet I had her on the floor for ten minutes before they arrived. I have a few more up my sleeve, so if anyone wants to start a thread on self defence moves I can add a few, and would always like to know more of course.
By the way we aren't cynics, just realists. I spent often 2 to 3 hours taking my turn labelling, 1 or 2 hours dispensing, and the rest of the day checking. Do you wonder why I am bored to my back teeth? All the companies I work for have an absolute minimum of staff on duty, and that's not allowing for sickness or holidays. I cannot think of the last time I spent not labelling and dispensing at least for some of the day. Do you never do these things?
