Thursdays are great days. It is always raining and I work 2 to 10pm at a great store, nice and slow and steady and great techs, staff pharmacists and front store people. I love me some Mt Healthy. The only thing I dread on Thursday is the ringing.
Whats the ringing you ask? Well, let me inform you. This pharmacy has a drive through. This drive-through dings a door bell everytime a car pulls past a certain spot on the building, so we have around 5-10 seconds (depending on how fast the person is driving) to walk over to the window to be there when the person drives up. In fact, every single store I work at has one of these. What this drive through also has is a "call" button. What does the call button do? Why, it rings every phone in the damn pharmacy at the loudest volume it can ring, all at the same time. How many phones? At the minimum 5.
Usually, this is not an issue. Most stores the people drive up, know we are on our way, after all they can see us which means we can see them and wait 10 seconds for us to walk over. Not this store. Everyone at this store is more important than everyone else. I kid you not, every person that drove up hit the damn buzzer as soon as they got there. Some of you may say, hey they don't know you have an over head door bell. This is true and I give that to the people that hit it when I am the only one there and on the other side of the pharmacy filling scripts.
I do not however give it to the people that ring it while you are standing there. Just today I had several instances where I almost took a screwdriver to the thing:
1. Tech is standing at the window helping lane 2. As she is facing the window talking to lane 2, lane 1 leans out, looks at her and pushes the buzzer. Remember every f*cking phone rings when they do this and does not stop until you pick it up "ma'am, I will be with you as soon as I am done with lane 2."
2. Busy tonight, my counter is backed up. I am helping someone at the counter right by the drive through. Lane 1 pulls up while I am in the middle of counseling the patient. Hits the buzzer. Every phone loud as hell is ringing. I have to pick it up. "I will be with you as soon as I am done with the counter". I resume counseling, then as that patient is done, I ring the person right behind them that has been there waiting for their script I just got done. Guess what lane 1 did? If you guessed sat there and patiently waited their turn at the dinner time rush you would be wrong. They rang the damn bell again because they were pissed I had not helped them yet (30 seconds maybe has went by since I said I would be with them?)
It may not seem like much to an outsider, but hearing every phone ring and seeing all the selfish impatient faces makes you want to break it and just close the drive-through.
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