Comments on Daddy Needs Some Alone Time: How I Lost My Shit at the Walgreens

I love this story mainly because I used to work fo...

2011-07-16T00:22:37.289-07:00

I love this story mainly because I used to work for Walgreens back in the day. When I got promoted from Photo Tech to Pharm Tech it wasn't an easy transition, mainly because the they stick you in a room for 40 hours and expect you to know the Pharmacy like the back of your hand once the one week classroom training is over. It's impossibile. I demoted myself back to Photo Tech four months later. The Pharmacist only cared about one thing--and that one thing was their $2,000 pay check every two weeks.

2011-07-16T00:20:19.719-07:00

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I was flashing back to George Bailey. Sorry, I&#...

2011-03-11T16:16:12.227-08:00

I was flashing back to George Bailey.

Sorry, I'm back. And you KNEW after you switched, that karma would bite you right when you least expected it, right?

my dad was a pharmacist who owned a small neighbor...

2011-03-09T20:33:05.466-08:00

my dad was a pharmacist who owned a small neighborhood pharmacy, that he bought from his boss...another pharmacist. when i was in high school, he hired my friends and my brother and i to DELIVER prescriptions. he let people 'put it on my tab', and even gave people medicine that couldn't afford it. he had to close his store because walgreen's moved in two blocks away. tragic.

We had a nice, competent 24 hour Sav On nearby, th...

2011-02-07T11:00:03.466-08:00

We had a nice, competent 24 hour Sav On nearby, then it morphed into a CVS. Okay, the pharmacy seems pretty well run, but my beef is the music interrupted randomly with LOUD announcements hawking products, which is LOUDEST at the exact spot where you wait to pick up your prescription. Just what you want when you are sick, right? When it was a Sav On, I used to pop in to use the blood pressure machine and buy a lipstick or something. Now I never take my bp there because it's always high because I'm being assaulted by the LOUD announcements hawking products. Has anyone in CVS's corporate hierarchy actually BEEN to a CVS???

I feel your pain. What a fiasco, and nothing is mo...

2011-02-07T09:44:22.600-08:00

I feel your pain. What a fiasco, and nothing is more annoying than dealing with idiots when your child is sick. I'm shocked, and yet not, that neither one of them thought of jumping over the counter.
That being said, there are still Burts around! We found a "Willy" and his little pharmacy is located near several big corporate dummies and manages to do a booming business just because he still actually cares about the customer. He saved both my parents' lives on different occasions when doctors gave them scripts that messed with their meds. He also had some very good advice when I and my 3 month old had H1N1. Willy can never retire!! I hope you find a Willy or a Burt again!