Omg doctors that tell patients their prescription should be ready by the time they get to the pharmacy piss me off like how would they know it’s going to be ready? Do they work at the pharmacy? No!
I use to work in the Pharmacy and yes the doctors tell patients that the prescription will be ready when they get there. It is the hardest job with a high turnover. I started doing pre authorization for the Pharmacy instead.
@@derek4986 I no longer manage but have transitioned to pharmacy and am now certified. I'm grateful that I work in a store where front store understands and helps. Being the only person in the pharmacy that understands the front store I return the favor and help out when I can. Actually considering being an LPN to start that may eventually work up to being a midwife. Babies, babies, babies.
I hated hated hated the customer service aspect of it. Nobody tells you that part of it until you’ve done the schooling testing and job hunting and are actually on your feet in the pharmacy!
I've been a technician for the past 6 years. The patients and customers are the worst part... :/ but you do get a lot of good people, though. Usually, I try to focus on them.
… and the tech we had didn’t know how busy and about all the insurance problems and drive thru and 3 registers …. Now she knows what it’s like she said And quit after 2weeks…..
If I had a dollar everytime a doctor wouldn't get respond to a refill fax, didn't call the prescription over, been yelled at by a customer because their insurance refused to cover it, they want narcotics filled at our pharmacy but had it sent to a different pharmacy (and we can't transfer because...narcotics), or because they waited until they were out of their prescription and need it rn when the drug is on nationwide back order...I wouldn't have to work
My pharmacist and his techs are just great. Been with them over 20 years. They are really nice, knowledgeable people. Never any hassle no matter what medication is prescribed.
You remind me of a quality friend of mine. Patient, resssilient, intelligent, tactical.. as well as at very least knowledgeable. Much appreciation towards your effort and craft, friend : )
My favorite was the lady who wasn’t going to move out the drive thru!!! 😂😂😂 I had so many customers do that!! “I AIN’T GOING NOWHERE!!!”....he said look man! I don’t ever!! Ever ever ever ever ever ever work in the pharmacy again!!! 😂😂😂
I sure can attest to that. Being a pharmacy technician is a thankless job for sure with customers being very unappreciative and not having any clue on how how the pharmacy operates. Also, most customers are too damn lazy and expect the pharmacy and the staff to make sure they keep track of their medications ie, refills, insurance and billing issues due in most cases of customers not updating their insurance information, etc. and the pharmacy staff have other more important things to do as well as deal with other customers. Don’t miss the job at all and the pay is absolutely pathetic for all the multitasking that has to be done!
Glad to see that you eliminated the previous intro that you used to use. People actually think working in the pharmacy is easy... until they actually work it.
I can handle everything except monday afternoon's. I've only been with WAGS for 7 months and started working on my tech license 1 month ago. The techs already rely on me being back there 2 hours a day and vent to me about the shitty new tech lol
I had my pharmacy tech internship at a small fully independent pharmacy with a nice owner who only does deliveries with a few pick up patients. Boy was I surprised a month later when I was hired at a independent retail pharmacy with several departments and having a mental breakdown a day with a pharmacist yelling constantly
Did one month as a CVS pharmacy tech....... This is my last week. Honestly: It Sucks. It truly does. You are balls to the wall from the minute you clock in to the time you clock out. The people can be impatient jerks; especially the old ladies who fight tooth and nail to save themselves 10 cents.......... Everything is timed, you're under constant pressure to move and work very quickly. Yeah, you get paid a dollar more than the front store; but it's just not worth it. All this in the video and more is so true.
You only get a dollar more for all that stress? My dude, just work in the front end. It's still pretty bad, especially when the customers confuse the cashiers for pharmacists, but it might save you from going prematurely grey 20 years too soon. Just a suggestion. A dollar more? That's CVS for you. I worked front end there. I never dressed like a pharmacist or a pharmacist tech, yet people always thought the cash register was the pharmacy. I was like, "Do all these high security items that we have to hide back here to keep people from fencing them, look like pill bottles to you? No? Then you ain't in the pharmacy". LOL. I even had one lady call the front end of the store and ask for a hydrocodne refill. I almost said, "I'll fill it, but you have to share". Aw, man, I feel for you guys. For real.
@@adrunkgorillawithalobotomy353 Thanks, brother. If I had to do it over again, I think I would have rather worked the front end instead of the Pharmacy. Retail work is generally thankless and underpaid, anyways.... you know this, too. At any rate, Pharmacy Techs should be far better compensated for what they have to put up with...... I do NOT miss that job!
Been working at a pharmacy as a pharmacist assistant for the past couple months and let me just say, some patients don’t like high school girls helping 😅 Like we have eye drops on back order so I’m trying to explain that the manufacturers aren’t supplying but they insist on talking to someone else who tells them the same thing..
Beauty consultant comment had me laughing. I had a pharmacy tech licensed for years and applied for a job. I went to interviews. Employers wouldn't hired me because I didn't have pharmacy tech experience. I didn't want to volunteer. No one pay bills while working for free by volunteering. Yet, I get job offers for cna.
Idk if doctors are really telling patients that their prescriptions should be ready when they arrive because that is never the case. Doctors please work with the pharmacy and let patients know there is a process, it take time. Somehow patients have the superpower ability to arrive in five minutes to a pharmacy while the clinic is thirty minutes away and when they arrive we usually don’t have the script until 30mins/1hr after the patient leaves.
pharmacists love me. they routinely come out of the pharmacy to point out stuff in the store and have full conversations with me. but I'm a youtuber and a licensed journalist, so I know how to talk to people and commiserate with them.
everyone who works in customer service experiences those hard customer's, just a different situation. It sucks no matter what career you go into, you will deal with people like this
Nope. Not the same. Customers are on a whole other level in a retail pharmacy because it's medication we're talking about. People are naturally more emotionally invested in their medication than they are in the goods/services they purchase in all other retail settings. We're more likely to deal with customers who have no patience (because they're sick and/or desperately need/want their medication) and the mentally ill. Also, we get blamed for things we have no control over ALL.THE.TIME (doctor wrote a prescription for 30 days instead of 90, but we get blamed; doctor didn't send the prescription over, but we get blamed; insurance company is making them pay a higher copay this time, but we get blamed; they're too soon on their pain medication because they've been taking it too often, but we get blamed).
@@anyaw340 The mentally ill patients (people on Lamictal, Lexapro, Xanax, etc.) in my experience have been chill and waaay easier to deal with because a lot of people with mental illnesses have been on them for a long time and know how the whole prescription process works. It's the "normal" people that are batshit insane about their medications 🙄
Imagine having to deal with people’s medications and insurance policies through a freakin drive-through and then having that compared to the rest of retail.
Started in the pharmacy I’m like 5 months in and the customers really be wild lol that I’m just going to sit in the drive thru till it’s ready is too legit lol ... don’t let the insurance not work cause somehow it’s your fault lol ... and every patient always transferring cause they got to wait on they medicine they didn’t call in for us to get ready lol I be thinking that’s okay take ya bad attitude to another pharmacy lol
Yes! I was like if I can handle the physical and emotional stress of being a CNA then I can handle being a pharm tech. Pharm tech is like a cushy job compated to shoveling poop, being exposed to all kinds of nasty diseases, going home everyday broke down in pain, running around like a chicken with its head cut off and dealing with lazy demanding ass nurses and patient families. I'd take difficult/ignorant customers any day.
Former funeral home worker/embalmer here. Being a retail pharmacy technician is not as physically labor intensive, but it can be just as mentally and trying.
I got certified as a CNA but I cannot last because I’m only 4’11 and 92lbs… so yeah I asked my husband if he’d allow me to be an EMT that was definitely H-No
As legit as these scenarios are, he forgot to demonstrate the crazy people who threaten to shoot us all the time. Plus, pick up the pace! Someone should have been in the background running their ass off yelling he is too slow.
neighborhood market Walmart I shop in 😵 never seem busy,,, when I look over at there counters 😡 I even heard a group of 3 pharmacist laughing at a joke or something,,, all 3 of them standing away from the registers and laughing at something 🙋 greedy little leprechauns??? !
RXComedy thank you. I have an interview tomorrow but sadly the location has 2 stars on yelp and a lot of negative reviews of people giving the wrong medication to other people YIKES!
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Omg doctors that tell patients their prescription should be ready by the time they get to the pharmacy piss me off like how would they know it’s going to be ready? Do they work at the pharmacy? No!
Natalia Andrea my point exactly like wtf!
Hold up! Are you covering that CVS white heart logo??? 😂😂😂
I use to work in the Pharmacy and yes the doctors tell patients that the prescription will be ready when they get there. It is the hardest job with a high turnover. I started doing pre authorization for the Pharmacy instead.
OMG! I WISH THE DR WOULD SAY GO IN 1HR
Yeah we don't get the prescriptions until minutes or hours after they see their doctors.
Too funny and too true!! Especially customers who show up 5 minutes after the script is sent in...
I manage a CVS. I feel for my techs. The front store people get mad when they have to help the pharmacy but their job is so much more stressful.
Thank you for understanding from a former floor person.
@@derek4986 I no longer manage but have transitioned to pharmacy and am now certified. I'm grateful that I work in a store where front store understands and helps. Being the only person in the pharmacy that understands the front store I return the favor and help out when I can.
Actually considering being an LPN to start that may eventually work up to being a midwife. Babies, babies, babies.
@@silentj624 congrats keep on keeping on!
@@silentj624babies. 🤮
"Isn't it your wife's job?" 😂😂😂😂😂
Lol.
I hated hated hated the customer service aspect of it. Nobody tells you that part of it until you’ve done the schooling testing and job hunting and are actually on your feet in the pharmacy!
I've been a technician for the past 6 years. The patients and customers are the worst part... :/ but you do get a lot of good people, though. Usually, I try to focus on them.
That's why I decided not to do this career. I'm glad I saw videos first. Typical retail, so over it.
Exactly!! Then the staff beat you down for not knowing the answers
… and the tech we had didn’t know how busy and about all the insurance problems and drive thru and 3 registers …. Now she knows what it’s like she said
And quit after 2weeks…..
Lmao “somebody needs to investigate that pharmacy bc I don’t know what type of pills they handing out to those ppl to make them act this crazy”
The "um.." and long awkward pause had me rolling too real!! Lol. worked 10 hours yesterday and didn't even consider taking a fifteen.
I work from 8:30-6 and we only get one 30 minute lunch break if we’re lucky
There are some days I have to be reminded to take my required 30 because it's so busy and a break is the last thing on my mind.
Dang that drive through patient skit is on point! there's always 1 or 2 of those on my shift.
$10/hr to deal with all that. I don't blame them
Chuck Maddox or minimum wage! Yes, please trust me with your schedule 3-5 while getting screamed at and making that much. Smdh.
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Chuck Maddox techs get more
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The new people quit so fast 😂 thanks for the laugh, off to freaking work in the pharmacy
arinn j thank you for always watching n commenting it means alot
RXComedy of course! Your videos always make me feel better 😂❤
You should do more cvs pharmacy technician skits!🤣🤣
Such a great video I have ever seen. Everyone should follow your thoughts. I really appreciate it.
I’m always ringing the customers & always drive thru. The first 2 minutes of this video are EXACTLY how I spend my 8.5 hours. 🤦🏾♀️
"The doctor said it'll be ready when i got here anyway" SHOOT ME!! YOUR DOCTOR DOESN'T WORK HERE SO HOW CAN HE TELL YOU THIS.??
If I had a dollar everytime a doctor wouldn't get respond to a refill fax, didn't call the prescription over, been yelled at by a customer because their insurance refused to cover it, they want narcotics filled at our pharmacy but had it sent to a different pharmacy (and we can't transfer because...narcotics), or because they waited until they were out of their prescription and need it rn when the drug is on nationwide back order...I wouldn't have to work
My pharmacist and his techs are just great. Been with them over 20 years.
They are really nice, knowledgeable people. Never any hassle no matter what medication is prescribed.
Thanks for my morning laugh i use to work at walgreens as a pharmacy cashier then the beauty department lol
Lol voluntarily demotion the BEST
You remind me of a quality friend of mine. Patient, resssilient, intelligent, tactical.. as well as at very least knowledgeable. Much appreciation towards your effort and craft, friend : )
Haha great video. I'm not sure how I've lasted so long. I've been an intern for about a year and a half in the hood so these videos really relate.
My favorite was the lady who wasn’t going to move out the drive thru!!! 😂😂😂 I had so many customers do that!! “I AIN’T GOING NOWHERE!!!”....he said look man! I don’t ever!! Ever ever ever ever ever ever work in the pharmacy again!!! 😂😂😂
“ I had to ban her mother “ 😂😂
That first patient completely reminded me of Mrs./Ms./Miss (name redacted for HIPPA compliance). I almost quit that day.
Just quit my pharm tech job....best decision of my life, this video gave me the feels lol everything is so true 😂
I sure can attest to that. Being a pharmacy technician is a thankless job for sure with customers being very unappreciative and not having any clue on how how the pharmacy operates. Also, most customers are too damn lazy and expect the pharmacy and the staff to make sure they keep track of their medications ie, refills, insurance and billing issues due in most cases of customers not updating their insurance information, etc. and the pharmacy staff have other more important things to do as well as deal with other customers. Don’t miss the job at all and the pay is absolutely pathetic for all the multitasking that has to be done!
I can watch this video over and over and over again..this is hilarious
Production is the best. Just count and answer the phone a few times.
Glad to see that you eliminated the previous intro that you used to use. People actually think working in the pharmacy is easy... until they actually work it.
Too true man!! Too true!! Been there done that lol!
Hello everybody, I'm pharmacist assistant in Chile, is stressfully too here.
Great video!!
I can handle everything except monday afternoon's. I've only been with WAGS for 7 months and started working on my tech license 1 month ago. The techs already rely on me being back there 2 hours a day and vent to me about the shitty new tech lol
Please make a survival guide video for new technicians!
I have been in pharmacy almost 18 years. I still don’t know why we have a drive thru!
The drive thru lady. I felt that in my bones.
The drive thru lady voice😭😂😂😂😂
I had my pharmacy tech internship at a small fully independent pharmacy with a nice owner who only does deliveries with a few pick up patients. Boy was I surprised a month later when I was hired at a independent retail pharmacy with several departments and having a mental breakdown a day with a pharmacist yelling constantly
Omggg this is hilarious 😂 I’m one month in as a pharm tech and it’s just like this
Did one month as a CVS pharmacy tech....... This is my last week. Honestly: It Sucks. It truly does. You are balls to the wall from the minute you clock in to the time you clock out. The people can be impatient jerks; especially the old ladies who fight tooth and nail to save themselves 10 cents.......... Everything is timed, you're under constant pressure to move and work very quickly. Yeah, you get paid a dollar more than the front store; but it's just not worth it. All this in the video and more is so true.
You only get a dollar more for all that stress? My dude, just work in the front end. It's still pretty bad, especially when the customers confuse the cashiers for pharmacists, but it might save you from going prematurely grey 20 years too soon. Just a suggestion. A dollar more? That's CVS for you. I worked front end there. I never dressed like a pharmacist or a pharmacist tech, yet people always thought the cash register was the pharmacy. I was like, "Do all these high security items that we have to hide back here to keep people from fencing them, look like pill bottles to you? No? Then you ain't in the pharmacy". LOL. I even had one lady call the front end of the store and ask for a hydrocodne refill. I almost said, "I'll fill it, but you have to share". Aw, man, I feel for you guys. For real.
@@adrunkgorillawithalobotomy353 Thanks, brother. If I had to do it over again, I think I would have rather worked the front end instead of the Pharmacy. Retail work is generally thankless and underpaid, anyways.... you know this, too. At any rate, Pharmacy Techs should be far better compensated for what they have to put up with...... I do NOT miss that job!
Been working at a pharmacy as a pharmacist assistant for the past couple months and let me just say, some patients don’t like high school girls helping 😅 Like we have eye drops on back order so I’m trying to explain that the manufacturers aren’t supplying but they insist on talking to someone else who tells them the same thing..
Beauty consultant comment had me laughing. I had a pharmacy tech licensed for years and applied for a job. I went to interviews. Employers wouldn't hired me because I didn't have pharmacy tech experience. I didn't want to volunteer. No one pay bills while working for free by volunteering. Yet, I get job offers for cna.
Idk if doctors are really telling patients that their prescriptions should be ready when they arrive because that is never the case. Doctors please work with the pharmacy and let patients know there is a process, it take time.
Somehow patients have the superpower ability to arrive in five minutes to a pharmacy while the clinic is thirty minutes away and when they arrive we usually don’t have the script until 30mins/1hr after the patient leaves.
Drs say that to make pts happy in their office and know your going to be pissed off somewhere else! SNAP!😂
😂😂😂😂 this is WALGREENS!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is why I went from retail to the hospital. Those patients be turnt for no reason and my nerves couldn’t take it no more.
I love being a pharmacy tech!!!
OMG this is all absolutely true i work in a pharmacy going on to my 3rd year.
pharmacists love me. they routinely come out of the pharmacy to point out stuff in the store and have full conversations with me. but I'm a youtuber and a licensed journalist, so I know how to talk to people and commiserate with them.
That’s why I don’t do retail pharmacy. I’d lose my job for cursing out a customer! Hospital pharmacy is so much better!!
100%
everyone who works in customer service experiences those hard customer's, just a different situation. It sucks no matter what career you go into, you will deal with people like this
Been in customer service my whole life. Pharmacy customers are special.
Nope. Not the same. Customers are on a whole other level in a retail pharmacy because it's medication we're talking about. People are naturally more emotionally invested in their medication than they are in the goods/services they purchase in all other retail settings. We're more likely to deal with customers who have no patience (because they're sick and/or desperately need/want their medication) and the mentally ill. Also, we get blamed for things we have no control over ALL.THE.TIME (doctor wrote a prescription for 30 days instead of 90, but we get blamed; doctor didn't send the prescription over, but we get blamed; insurance company is making them pay a higher copay this time, but we get blamed; they're too soon on their pain medication because they've been taking it too often, but we get blamed).
@@anyaw340 The mentally ill patients (people on Lamictal, Lexapro, Xanax, etc.) in my experience have been chill and waaay easier to deal with because a lot of people with mental illnesses have been on them for a long time and know how the whole prescription process works. It's the "normal" people that are batshit insane about their medications 🙄
There the same as retail I been pharmacy technician for 8 years
Imagine having to deal with people’s medications and insurance policies through a freakin drive-through and then having that compared to the rest of retail.
Started in the pharmacy I’m like 5 months in and the customers really be wild lol that I’m just going to sit in the drive thru till it’s ready is too legit lol ... don’t let the insurance not work cause somehow it’s your fault lol ... and every patient always transferring cause they got to wait on they medicine they didn’t call in for us to get ready lol I be thinking that’s okay take ya bad attitude to another pharmacy lol
Being a pharmacy tech to me is way easier then being a cna
Yes! I was like if I can handle the physical and emotional stress of being a CNA then I can handle being a pharm tech. Pharm tech is like a cushy job compated to shoveling poop, being exposed to all kinds of nasty diseases, going home everyday broke down in pain, running around like a chicken with its head cut off and dealing with lazy demanding ass nurses and patient families. I'd take difficult/ignorant customers any day.
Bitch_Im_Cute I agree!!!!! I just started my pharmacy tech program and I like it
@@Rickys_working so how do you like it? After a year I mean
Former funeral home worker/embalmer here. Being a retail pharmacy technician is not as physically labor intensive, but it can be just as mentally and trying.
I got certified as a CNA but I cannot last because I’m only 4’11 and 92lbs… so yeah I asked my husband if he’d allow me to be an EMT that was definitely H-No
Lmao this is so accurate!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I personally know about 10 that quit within a week .
This was my first day in drive thru omg 😂
🤣🤣😂😂 today was my first day in the pharmacy and I liked it lol 😂 okkkkkayyy beauty consultant 💀
Our Beauty Consultant is a registered pharmacy tech and works in the pharmacy on a regular basis xD.
So fuckin accurate 😂 but I’m still here 😏
This is great!
TOO FUNNY!! I am strongly considering pharmacy school but I am not sure....
I needed this laugh 🤣
Damn you killing me am laughing so loud my mom looking at me like WTF
Our very hilarious miserable pharmacy lives!!!
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definitely is not for everyone. after the first few weeks you start to get a hang of things. sometimes it takes years to get certain things down.
Lol I'm bout to go back to the pharmacy and i miss the funny situations
Awsome as usual
This is hilarious lol;) I worked in a retail pharmacy for 3 years now i encountered worst lol;-)
Are there really drive thrus?
This video forgot to add the classic >>> "What do you mean I gotta pay $1.47 co-pay?...You gotta run that GoodRx Card again!!!"😾
As legit as these scenarios are, he forgot to demonstrate the crazy people who threaten to shoot us all the time. Plus, pick up the pace! Someone should have been in the background running their ass off yelling he is too slow.
Not to mention there should have been phones ringing off the hook and a pharmacist stuck on the phone who can't answer the tech's questions lol
LOL, I love you!
It feels good to be loved. I'm not loved at work
I think they think we get paid really well
What is your basis for this opinion?
No no we dont
The woman who wanted a refill probably did not get authorized by insurance and got rejected
At 3:10 is mood
neighborhood market Walmart I shop in 😵 never seem busy,,, when I look over at there counters 😡 I even heard a group of 3 pharmacist laughing at a joke or something,,, all 3 of them standing away from the registers and laughing at something 🙋 greedy little leprechauns??? !
Omg the lady growled 🤣
Funny but true
I was going to apply to cvs pharmacy tech but... these comments and videos about how bad it is.. I’m thinking I shouldn’t
Give it a shot if you don't like it just quit. You just have to find the right store
RXComedy thank you. I have an interview tomorrow but sadly the location has 2 stars on yelp and a lot of negative reviews of people giving the wrong medication to other people YIKES!
My guess they r gonna throw u str8 into the fire
RXComedy yikes.. I’ll still interview see how it feels but I have seen red flags already
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😂😂😂😂😂🤣 relate
...oh sure, the job
Is easy ...new tech quit after 2 weeks she didnt know it was like this,lol
Nailed it lmao
this is gold
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🤣😂 exactly
We should collab😂😂
Anytime
The growl
I work at CVS pharmacy to true😂
'yea, i had to ban her mother'
Im lost what is so hard about this job
One tech lasted 2 weeks lol
You work for Walgreens don’t you?
the audio on the phone was to clear to be realistic and the person on the phone spoke too clearly
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Excellent...well done.
Better than working in a restaurant.
Nope, can't agree. I've worked both food service and the pharmacy in the past, and I'd take the kitchen over the pharmacy any day.
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Bro if this ain't me lol
If it TPR's my brain "probably SDL" lol
Lmao😂😂😂😂😂😂
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JESUS loves you come to him take all your cares ❤️
Omg lol grr it so me