Outside the pharmacy....

[hannahd]

Outside the pharmacy where have you been apprehended by a customer regarding their script?

Do you regularly get recognised in the street as "the pharmacist" and get subsequent glares/greetings? Do you have to shop out of town to avoid your customers? Have you bumped into any customers whilst on holiday?

Just interested in whether anyone has managed to avoid any contact with customers outside of work.

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by hannahd

Outside the pharmacy where have you been apprehended by a customer regarding their script?

Yes.

Do you regularly get recognised in the street as "the pharmacist" and get subsequent glares/greetings?

Or even the pub.

Do you have to shop out of town to avoid your customers?

No - I chose to work away from home at first just to avoid this sort of stuff
... but people near home find out that you're a pharmacist and ask you anyway.

Have you bumped into any customers whilst on holiday?

No - but many years ago did find one of my local doctors sunbathing topless on the beach.

Just interested in whether anyone has managed to avoid any contact with customers outside of work.

Why worry - it's going to happen anyway.

Jeff

[hannahd]

Originally Posted by hannahd

Outside the pharmacy where have you been apprehended by a customer regarding their script?

Originally Posted by Jeff

Yes.

.............

Originally Posted by hannahd

Do you regularly get recognised in the street as "the pharmacist" and get subsequent glares/greetings? Do you have to shop out of town to avoid your customers?

Originally Posted by Jeff

Or even the pub. No - I chose to work away from home at first just to avoid this sort of stuff
... but people near home find out that you're a pharmacist and ask you anyway.

Oh dear.

Originally Posted by hannahd

Have you bumped into any customers whilst on holiday?

Originally Posted by Jeff

No - but many years ago did find one of my local doctors sunbathing topless on the beach.

.......blimey!

Originally Posted by hannahd

Just interested in whether anyone has managed to avoid any contact with customers outside of work.

Originally Posted by Jeff

Why worry - it's going to happen anyway.

Good point. I'm booking self-defence classes ASAP.

[N.T]

Originally Posted by hannahd

Outside the pharmacy where have you been apprehended by a customer regarding their script?

Do you regularly get recognised in the street as "the pharmacist" and get subsequent glares/greetings? Do you have to shop out of town to avoid your customers? Have you bumped into any customers whilst on holiday?

Just interested in whether anyone has managed to avoid any contact with customers outside of work.

My parmacist boyfriend got followed home by one of the methadone punters once. Wasn't really a threat though cos she was really weedy, obvioulsy preferring to substitute heroin for food.

When working in the depths of deep dark Peckham I once told but some arsehole that he was going to wait outside for me after i finished. Although he used more explenative to say that. Nothing happened tho.

I dunno...maybe you should buy a fake moustache/glasses/hat if you're worried.

[Pharmanaut]

Originally Posted by N.T

My parmacist boyfriend got followed home by one of the methadone punters once. Wasn't really a threat though cos she was really weedy, obvioulsy preferring to substitute heroin for food.

When working in the depths of deep dark Peckham I once told but some arsehole that he was going to wait outside for me after i finished. Although he used more explenative to say that. Nothing happened tho.

I dunno...maybe you should buy a fake moustache/glasses/hat if you're worried.

Always a danger in the reality of modern pharmacy practice.