Buh? Angry Tech? No way!
So I get this angry comment from some rabid tech:
So you don't think techs deal with as much crap as pharmacists? Have you ever worked as a tech? Not only do we have to deal with customers but also pharmacists. Who has to retype entire scripts when they get sent back because the s was missing from teaspoons? Who has to apologize to the customers when they complain because they were sitting in the waiting room forever because the pharmacist forgot to page? Who has to deal with their bosses constantly over their shoulders dictating every task for 8+ long hours a day? Who has to deal with the brand new pharmacists who don't even know what phenazopyridine is or how to figure out the package size for a box of albuterol nebs? Who always has to deal with the drive-thru?? Who has to run back and forth between filling and the register while the pharmacist pulls up the dreaded chair to verification? Most pharmacists--not all--but most would rather just stay at verification and let technicians work their butts off. All this for 1/5th of pharmacists pay. Finally, about all the complaints you have about insurance/medicare problems, I don't know about your pharmacy but at mine the techs deal with all the insurance problems.
And I thought I was bitter.
Lets get a few things straight first:
Dear Angry Tech,
Who's licence is on the line when you fuck up? A licence that took 7+ years of college and a ball-buster test to obtain. Your existance depends on a pharmacist, like it or leave it. Yes, I have worked as a tech; Yes, I realize that you do the shit that pharamacists dont want to do, but thats your job. Now gimme 100 soma before you taste the back end of a vicodin bottle. :)
Love Always,
The Angry Pharmacist
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What is the deal with Ron Jeremy anyway? That boy is U-G-L-Y ugly! So he gets the job every heterosexual male literally dreams of....and keeps it for some 30 years?? WTF!!!!! It has to be some sort of mob connection....it has to be....
Color me green with envy, I am....
The drugnazi
PS- My techs think I'm the bomb.
Man, you think techs hate you. First months of interning, I thought I would be lynched. They went out of their way every second to point out any of my mistakes and to make me mess up. They wanted to burn into my brain that I made more than them but knew less. Well, 9 months later, I know more than them and still get paid more----haha.
Yeah, yeah it's you're license on the line. It doesn't change the fact that techs have to put up with more crap.
To the tech; Take your break, go to lunch, talk to your boyfriend on the phone, put some vicodin in your pocket when I'm not looking, break all the boards rules that you don't know and don't care about and stop blaming me beacause you got pregnant in high school or couldn't get into college for whatever reason. I am so sick of techs who think they are more than they are. I've worked with exactly one good tech in the past 15 years and she is worth her weight in gold. The rest seem to have some underlying reason for being in the pharmacy like a family member who can't afford medicine, a boyfriend with an oxy addiction or a "complaint" against a pharmacist. Why do companies continue to hire techs like you? Because if you could demand $15-20 an hour you wouldn't be a tech! You could type more than 15 words per minute and be a receptionist, or you could answer the phone when you are supposed to and work at a call center or you could have some basic math skills and teach elementary school somewhere. You would have gone to college. You are a tech, go back to fucking work.
Ok, My turn. I've been a Tech for going on 26 years. Not because I'm so stupid I can't find another job but because I'm good at what I do. I've trained more techs & new pharmacists in LTC (that long term care for all the retail folks)than I can remember. For the most part everyone has done alright. There have been a few pricks and bitches that should have never been let in the door but given time they screw themselves out of the job. Nobody is perfect and if they think they are, run like hell, because their a lawsuit waiting to happen.
BigTex
Interesting dialogue we've got here. And a few good examples of why I want so badly to get into pharm school. (I'm on the waitlist...*sigh*...)
I remember being a tech before I was a pharmacist. Yes, you get the register and stuff, but the pharmacist almost always has more important and license-required stuff to do than ring up peoples' toilet paper and bottled water. One of my techs always bitches when I send a script back down. After several weeks of it I finally told her, "If you don't want to have to do the script over, do it correctly the first time. Pay attention to detail." It seriously bothers me when techs think they know more than I do because I'm a new pharmacist. Well, I've been working in pharmacy for 8 years now, I have a slight clue what's going on.
Okay let me in on this little rant!!!
I of course started out like most pharmicist or intern's as a tech, at WalMart pharmacy (dont laugh). Now Im a third year intern and let me tell yah ppl are asses. And Know-it-All techs piss me off to the extream. One in perticular that thinks because she has worked in a MD's office she is the foremost authority in pharmacology... yeah well, let me tell yeah ya... no. Until you take the PCAT and get accepted to a school of pharmacy and pass your Pharmacy theraputics class don't talk to me like you know anything. And yeah techs deal with shitty, bitchy ppl all day... but your (and mine) License means dick! You wont loose your license if you make a mistake, If you don't write Unwrap and insert, because you're to lazy, on the suppository direction, and the dumbass tears his rectum to shit... you won't be sued... no that would be the pharmacist. If you don't want to do the "Bitch" work, GO TO PHARMACY SCHOOL!!!
..."before you taste the back end of a Vicodin bottle." bwahahaha classic!
Well, if that tech doesn't like their job, then they should just hang up their tech permit and pay another $10k to a rip off community "college" and get a certificate to be a glorified secretary/filer/bitch (medical assistant)-Might be a nice change of pace OR stop bitching and get into $60K plus dollars in debt by going to some shitty ass pharmacy school that constantly screws its students over, then become a "sue-able" pharmacist. THen they can sit at the "dreaded chair to verification" and wonder if they just hurt/killed someone or fucked themselves lubleless in the ass with the prescription they just sent out...
I'm a tech, and frankly, you'd be a hoot to work with in my opinion. Everything that you state you do falls on my shoulders at my job...the pharmacist only fills, takes new rx's, and counsels. I've been doing this 8 years and it's funny how many "tech" I have been forced to train who, after a month of actual pharmacy work think that they should be paid what I make because they "know as much" as I do and "do the same job". Yeah. Right. They can't tell their asses from a hole in the ground, not to mention figuring out a simple insurance problem, but they think they are god's gift to the pharmacy. My pharmacist isn't much help since he doesn't have anything to do with the computers. It's these techs that give us a bad name. I, and the "pharmacy mafia" at my work get them fired in no time, but I wasted my time on them, and it pisses me off.