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wallgreens is a fucked up cocking herpes infested cum guzzling retarded cracked out pharmacy! those motherfuckers have no sence of logic nor can they perform the most basic task like filling a script! i called in a refil, was told it was for three pills to be taken in the morning and three in the afternoon. i told them it was not the correct dispensing. it was 6 in the a.m. and 6 in the p.m.. told them there was a new script at my local supermarket. so it was transfered. once i ran out of the 3 in the a.m. and 3 in the p.m. i called back to inform them i was out. so the haitian pharmaciest asked why i was transfereing my medicins back and forth!! i was taken aback since it is not their business what i do nor where i get my meds. i should mentioned the road i cross to get to the wallgreens is dangerours. so i feel more conftrobal going to the supermarket. i mentioned it to him. he started trying to break my arguement. well dont you cross the street anyways when you come here? i was like yes, but with assistance or i get driven when i can get a ride. i got pissed and started to get loud. who are you to ask me about where i decide to get my meds? am i a criminal? am i breaking the law? call the cops if i am. its a free country. i can go where i wanna go. i dont tell you where to shop! or what to buy where. its not your concern. you concern is my health. if i cant get my meds my new kidney is going to shut down! well the insurance is not paying for it! why i asked. after going back and forth and after him telling me i had no right to scream. i said you dont have a right to ask nor question me iether! i walked him through the logic. i said, when was the script for the 3 and 3 written? early july. ok and when was the 6 and 6 written. the 30th of juluy. well then isnt the latest script superceeding the old one? yes he said. ok so what is the problem? asshole butt fuck still wanted to argue with me. saying the doctor has to call him and explain why he changed it! have you ever heard such fucking stupidity? who the fuck died and left him queen of the world! i feel like they treat me with difference since i am disabled. let face it in haitia i would have been killed a long time ago. since they do not value life. now he gets in and brings his fucked up value system with him and wants to school me because i am blind. well fuck him and the fucking boat the fucking ass eating dog eating cum stained N!starving nappy hair shit breath donkey dick sucking retard!they think its ok to treat peopl like nobodys! cant waite to get the fuck out of this fucked town and back to the city!
sorry to the donkeys, no animals were hurt during this rant.
Such wonderful prose.
Pharmacists are idiots. They seem to lack common sense! Oh and I had a kidney shut down and they take it out and swap in a new one. But I get it, those ass holes don't care about your health they just want to cover there asses and make the big bucks. Love this topic!
Actually, this guy did the right thing. If a doctor doubles a dose, a responsible
pharmicist will confirm that dosage with the doctor before giving it to a patient.
Think about it, the doctor deals with the disease, and might know which
medication to name that will deal with that medication. The pharmicist knows
how strong that medicine is, what chemicals are in it, how to dose it out, how to
store it properly, so on and so forth.
Doubling a dosage in a month would sound like a mistake to any pharmicist,
so confirming it with the doctor is the responsible thing to do. Also, people who
switch back and forth between stores can often be people who are either
dealing drugs, or making drugs. Especially if these drugs have street value. So,
he's probably asking why you keep switching stores for legal reasons so he's
sure he's not selling to someone who is just faking it to lay hands on high-value
medications.
Besides, if this is the only thing you have to deal with, you just need to calm
the fuck down. It was a couple questions, he didn't kidnap your baby or
anything, he asked a couple questions. I'm willing to bet he knows more about
medications than you, so you should probably just answer those questions and
go on about your day instead of throwing a silly little fit.
I have dealt with walgreens for a long time. Several times, my pills changed shapes and I could just see myself swallowing somebody else's medicine and dying on the spot. When I have called them, I got the brush-off at first but once I said I was blind and didn't want to swallow somebody elses medicine, the attitude changed quick and the person looked to see what the manufacturer had done; yes, they had changed the shape of the pills. Ask questions yes.
Yes, never just assume they're doing the right thing. Question it!
Wow, how do you really feel about that, Gizmo? Don't mince words or anything. LOL.
I definitley understand why you were upset, though your anger seems a tad bit disproportionate. I have interacted with a couple pharmacists who do treat me differently because i'm blind, or who I wondered how the hell they graduated out of their training because they seem to lack anything resembling a working brain. However, those types have been the minority. Most of the pharmacists I've worked with, Walgreens or otherwise, have been very friendly, intelligent, and helpful people. Cody is right, it's their job to be thorough, and to ask questions. But it does sound like this one may have been crossing a line from thorough to nosy, at least in the questions about how you cross the street. So, at the risk of sounding like a diplomat, which I most assuredly am not, I can see both sides of this one.
first, my meds are anti rejection. not opiats, nor some other get high meds. they keep my kidney from being rejected. so, why would i sell them? second, the meds were not doubled. since i have been taking a total of 12 pills for some nine months. should he had viewed my profile he would have seen it. also, there was no need to ask why i switch back and forth. since its my money why should he care? because he might think i am,"dealing?" IF, theyre pain pills, aderol, some valium, or similiar then his questioning would have been understood! plus, there is the new script whoes despensing calls for 6 in the a.m. and 6 in the p.m.! again if he would have taken the time to look at my profile he would have seen a pattern. if he new his meds he would have known the medicen was an anti rejection not a get me high pill! if i wanna get high i would rather smoke weed. not take a pain pill that tears my stomach.
As somebody who is on antirejection drugs I will say that you really can't mess up on them so I understand much of the questioning. However, asking how you cross the street? Rediculous!
Actually gizmo, here's why he would ask about anti-rejection pills. Now, you obviously aren't guilty of this because you haven't even thought of this possibility, but guess what? There is a very notorious, very real problem with an underground organ black market. I know it seems far-fetched, but honestly, there's a business where some people make a ton of money doing illegal kidney transplants and the whole thing goes under the radar, even down to the anti-rejection meds.
So chillax man, the guy was just doing his job. think about it; who's ass would be on the line if the guy just changed your prescription without verrifying with a medical professional and not asking you some questions? It would be his; not your ass, not your doc's, not the pharmacy itself--his ass.
His job would be at stake if he was even suspected of dealing with an underground donor dealer, so he has to have it on record that he did infact ask you questions, that he did infact talk to your doc, etc.
yes you're just a regular patient, and you definitely need your meds. But some bad apples--or assholes rather--have ruined it for you to make a quik buck. Now there are different protocols that the pharmacy needs to follow in order to keep itself at work. So calm down, dude. Hatian or not, the guy needs his job. someone has to feed his family right? Just be glad it's not you. lol.
we've all gotta eat.
Yeah, I think this reaction was...quite a bit much. And bringing his race into it was pointless and completely counterproductive.
Nosy, yeah. He was nosy. He really doesn't need to try and break down your crossing-the-street argument.
But as others have said, he was doing his job. Always safe, never sorry. Bad apples everywhere, and you aren't one of them but you still get the fallout. I'm sorry you did, but your response here? Well, pretty over the top, if you ask me.
again, to clarify what pissed me off was not only about crossing the street but the why do you or are switching from walgreens to a grocery store pharmacy?! none of his business! again, it is my perogative to do so. its my money. it is my choice.had the supermarket store had those antirejection meds i would have stayed with the grocery store pharmacy. these meds are spechial and not all pharmacys carry them. the particular pill is costing some 10k! i pay just under 20 dollars for them. my insurance picks up the rest. if i wanna go to the zy store and get them filled there its none of his concern! if i wanna go to cvs, againnot his concern!the script was legit. the signature was also legit! i have no desire to sell them. as for the underground organ selling and fake drugs well it sucks!
Bernadetta, I'm sure you're right, but your post put me in mind of the old hoax emails that used to circulate about people waking up in hotel rooms in bathtubs of ice, with a note beside them that says, "call 911, we've taken your kidneys." But I know there are black markets for all kinds of drugs, so it would follow that there is one for this, too.
Gregg, it's not right, but I'll admit I do get more frustrated with foreigners in situations like this than I do Americans, Canadians, or basically people from any...first-world countries, I guess you could say? Yes, prejudice, I know, but I'm being honest. If I'd written this, while it would have looked dramatically different than the way Gizmo did, I may very well have brought the guy's being Hatian into it, too. In some cases, the nationality does make a difference, because of culture. Maybe where this guy's from, nosiness like that even in a professional is ok. Maybe because his culture treats people with disabilities differently, he thinks it's ok to do that here in the US. Either way, right or wrong, I have to admit I understand Gizmo mentioning that particular fact about the guy.
I do too. My friend got some help from someone born in the Philipines, and I warned her. I had a person from there ask where my mom and dad are, and why don't I live with them, and how heartless could they be to leave me here all alone. I wanted to scream!
I ttried explaining it to her, but she did not get it. It was like she was thinking: "This is the only way I know, and, I just can't make sense of this other way!"
And, one more thing about people from other countries. They come here, with thick accents, unable to completely speak the language. Well:
1: There's many classes for ESL people.
2: We can't understand each other.
3: If I moved to another country, I'd have to know that language. If you go to France, speak French. If you go to China, speak Chinese. If you come here, speak English. Not always. If you're doing your own thing, whatever. But, I have to, and so do others, understand.
And, when it comes to my Mom and Dad, they can shut their holes about them. MNone Of Their bees' Wax!
Interestingly, I hear people who live here from other countries say the same thing. And, they speak with more clarity than me.
Blessings,
Sarah Big Mouth
Only thing is, sarah, our country was made up of all those foreign ones. France, China, Italy, Spain, even latin american countries not so much. We have a ton of representation from different nationalities and we always have had that, so just because you consider yourself a plain old english speaking american, doesn't at all mean your ancestors were that.
As for the hatian thing, well to be fair, you have no concrete evidence that the pharmacist was hatian. You only bring his maybe nationality into it because you're pissed at him. Otherwise, you wouldn't even have the need to call him out on it. But honestly, I've spoken to Americans who can barely speak decipherable english and I've spolen to immigrants who maybe don't speak much english but they're a thousand times more courteous and make much more of an effort to asisst in whatever capacity they're supposed to.
So the comment about the guy being Hatian only puts the complainer on the level of the pharmacist, who may or may not have been nosy because the person he was serving is disabled. Just as you label him a no-good nosy hatian, he labeled you a incapable, stupid dependent blind person. And neither is fair is it? You don't like being persecuted for your disability, and I guarantee you the foreign pharmasist would appreciate your bringing his nationality into the dispute just as much.
Truth is,ignorance about blindness and disability abounds everywhere and it is plentiful within our own good old english speaking americans. No need to blame a cultural divide into it since our own culture is a melting pot often riddled with ignorance,misassumptions and misunderstandings.
Also, the kidney and other organ trafficking is a very real issue. It's well-documented and well publicized, so not just a satire.
Bernadetta hit it right on the head. I'm not saying this guy's' treatment of Gizmo was totally appropriate or that anyone, American or Haitian or East Indian or Chinese or anyone, asking nosy or insulting questions is ideal. It's not ideal. And I confess I've been asked some fairly insulting questions by non-Canadians, such as stuff about where my mother is, and whether or not I live alone (cab drivers like doing this). But while I don't have to do this, I educate. I tell them that yes, I do manage all right, or that I don't feel like getting into it, and mostly they're very good about it.
My point was that bringing race into it might actually have some sense to it, depending on what was said and how, but at that point you're trading blow for blow, and lowering yourself to the other person's level if you want to look at it that way. It's basically an excuse to use racism as a tool of division; it's not meant divisively, but it's still being divisive.
also, Alicia, that bit you mentioned about waking up in a tub full of ice? That gave me a whole-body creep-out shiver. Very nasty. I suppose it probably didn't happen, but just the image of that occurring...ugh. No.
Agreed there, Gregg. While I understand the frustration with the Hatian thing, the way it was brought up was just as bad as what this idiot did. I've never had a cab driver ask if I lived alone, and if I had when I actually did live alone, I'd have lied about it. No way in hell I'm telling some random cab driver I live alone. I don't now, though my guess is some would consider living with a partner who is also blind the equivalent to living alone, as there's no one here to, you know, take care of us. I did have some tech support idiot from our cable provider ask if I could put my caretaker on the phone when I told him I was blind and therefore couldn't see the lights on the modem. I was pretty pissed. Like you, I do try to politely educate people before losing my temper, but sometimes, people are not receptive and it just doesn't work.
And yes, those old emails would definitely give me the full-body creep-out shivers too, so I hear you there.
At a certain point, I will raise my voice if I feel insulted or threatened. I am human, after all
Threatened, yes. Raise my voice a little when frustrated, maybe. But I have never, ever screamed on the phone to someone professionally. I've shouted a few times in arguments with people I know well, but even that's quite the rarity.
I could probably count the times I've fully raised my voice on the phone in a more professional setting on one hand, even though I've been more than a little frustrated many different times. I've had to talk over someone who kept repeating themselves to no good effect, and I've had to get a little sharp when I was being given the run-around. Beyond that, not much. I firmly believe this: there is no good reason to really shout at someone on a telephone. if they're really being a colossal idiot, ask to speak to someone above them, or if you really think you're gonna burst, hang up the phone and try again when you're calmer. That might seem impolite as well, but it's better than screaming.
I wouldn't scream over the phone. My saying is, I'm to yung for chest pains. But I do sometimes get a bit prickly.
Ok, I understand being frustrated and maybe raising your voice. But if
questions like these frustrate you to that point, you have problems. We get
asked stupid questions as blind people. its part of being a blind person. The
general public asks stupid fucking questions, and we bite our tongues and get
over it. He asked how you cross a street, not your favorite sex position or what
your social security number is. Grow up and get the fuck over it.
I beg to differ. I've been asked how blind people have sex. So, that does happen.
And, "Get over it," isn't always the way. If we "Got over it," we would still be living in shelters for the retarded or, what was it back then? "Feeble."
BS if we have to tuck our tails between our blind legs and get over it.
I'd like to see you get over a few things Cody. However, I've never seen bullshit walk, pigs fly, or a talking horse named Mr. Ed.
If we all listened to you, we'd have our food fed to us. I'm sure you have some things the rest of us don't. The way you talk, you must have some kind of wealth. Besides, only some wealthy people would act the way you do. Not all, but some. I've seen it before, and you are no different than a snob. Blind or not.
And, your proof that race doesn't make you a jerk. It's how we're raised and how we do or don't look down on others. So Cody, take a little of your own advice, and get over it.
Sarah
Hyperbole doesn't really help your argument Sarah. I said get over people
asking you dumb questions, not get over people locking you in a mental
institution. If you can't see a difference there, you're stupider than you look,
and that would boggle the mind. This pharmacist asked a dumb question. Sure,
its annoying, sure, you can call up one of your blind friends and go, "You won't
believe what this dumb mother fucker asked me on the phone today." But are
you really going to get so butt-hurt by something that petty that you yell at the
pharmacist on the phone, or bring up, or even assume, his race?
And Sarah, sweetie, try actually reading my post next time. The fact that you
have been asked about how blind people have sex, does not effect this post in
the slightest because I didn't say, "people never ask how blind people have
sex". What I said, you brainless hack, is that the pharmacist in question didn't
ask about sex. So the fact that you were once asked a question vaguely related
to the one I referenced, has absolutely nothing to do with what we're saying.
Look, I know you'er insecure about me being smarter and generally better
than you sarah. I know that hurts and probably keeps you up at night. But the
next time you feel like bitching, at least make it germane to the conversation,
ok? I don't think that's too much to ask. I'm also going to make you look up
what the word germane means, cuz I'm willing to bet you don't have a fucking
clue.
Cody, you are right. It was a dumb question asked by a stranger. It's a pain in the ass but it won't pay to yell and scream in the guy's face.
I'm actually in complete agreement with Cody here. Stupid questions sometimes deserve stupid/sarcastic answers. Not yelling at the guy or going off on a message board the way gizmo has done here, but sarcasm wouldn't hurt. Oh and another thing: good on the pharmacist for doing his job and not letting an offended person trample over him.
While I don't agree we should just get over it, and do think that Gizmo had the right to be mad, yelling and screaming was definitely not a good or appropriate reaction. Usually when I get asked dumb-ass questions like this, especially over the phone, and someone persists in being an idiot, my voice actually gets quieter and more level, almost cold, as I get more angry. Or that really stiff politeness that communicates that you're pissed, but doesn't give the other person the right to hang up on you. CSR's or other professionals do have the right to hang up if someone is yelling and/or cursing at them. And yes, those humorous sarcastic answers that tell someone what a dumb-ass they're being are fun too, if you can think them up fast enough in the moment. Sometimes I can, most times not.
Sometimes I echo the stupid question back at the person so they can have a chance to rethink things. I was once asked if blind people sleep. I said, "do blind people sleep?" This was done with shock in my voice and the person said, "oh yeah I guess that was stupid." We both laughed and went on with life.