Breast feeding... beautiful???

Ok, I'm not a mother, and not female, and I don't see the beauty in breast feeding. I understand that it is natural and that it is necessary and shouldn't be stopped. However, there is a fine line between this beautiful act and being gross. The line is crossed when I have to watch! I don't care what you do, but my freedom of being a happy-go-lucky individual is infringed when I have to see a baby mouthing some sagging boob. COVER UP! There is a law being passed saying that I can't ask someone to cover up. This seems to be a bit overboard on protecting a woman's rights. If they want to show their boobs go to spring break or mardi gras and get on girls gone wild. Otherwise cover up! I don't think anyone would have a problem with breast feeding if they didn't have to watch. Yeah, it might me a little uncomfortable and inconvienient, but I think wearing clothes all the time is! I can't take a quick run to the store without a shirt or in my underwear, why is this lady allowed to run around with her boob hanging out?

Three Sixes???? 666??? medicine?

Craziness in the pharmacy again. These older african american ladies steped up to the counter the other day and asked for some help.

"Excuse me do you have any other types of the three sixes?"

"No, I've never heard of it, I'm sorry." I reply.

This is where it gets fun...

"You don't know about three sixes medication?"
"Yo daddy knew about three sixes. I want the three sixes with quinine. It'll fix anything."

"I'm sorry we don't have anything like that." I try to say without laughing about 'yo daddy'.

"Oh well, where's your Geritol at?"

Do you want Plan B or Plan C? The morning after pill dilema.

Ok, I'm totally all about women's rights and having access to the morning after pill. I believe that it will stop some unwanted pregnancies. I also believe that I should have no say in what a woman does to her own body. This issue trancends the debate on morals or ethics with the morning after pill.

I just had a lady, not the first one I might add, who came into the pharmacy asking for the morning after pill and said that she had already taken it earlier in the month and wanted to know if she could take it again this month. Ok, let's just take a little more responsibility please! It's $40 for the morning after pill, it just happens to also be $40 for just about every birth control pill, patch, insert... ect. Doesn't it just make logical sense to go on some form of birth control? I guess I just have a problem with people being reckless with their bodies. The morning after pill is not side effect free... it's not tylenol or benadryl! You're playing with hormones here people! See a doctor, go to a clinic, get on the pill!!!
Ok, that's it.

Forged Prescriptions

I'm not really sure why people do it, but they do. Forge your prescription and I get pissed. That's the way it works. It's like you think I'm stupid when you hand me something that isn't real, that's the way I look at it. I've gotten to be really good at spotting forgeries too. I usually laugh just before I call the doctor to confirm I get to call the cops on someone. Why do I laugh? Well, there's lots of reasons....

1. Different color ink
2. Writing over a number doesn't mean I can't see what was already written
3. Messy doesn't mean it's a doctor's handwriting
4. Misspelled drugs are funny when you try to pronounce them
5. Calling in your own prescription and then calling back to "make sure the doctor called"... it's your same voice!!!!
6. It is easier to get the doctor to over prescribe than to forge

Ok, that's about it for now... But I'll be sure to get some more that I like.

Walgreens discrimination?

This is in response to reading comments made in the linked article.Walgreens is being sued for company wide directed discrimination. I feel that people need to be realistic. You get paid to do your job. You don't like your job, quit. You don't like your pay rate, quit. You aren't given a promotion or transfer, quit!

The suit alleges unequal pay, but the pay rates are the same, it's the bonuses that are where the differences are. Mr. Tucker, you say that you aren't doing well because you have a bad store, then make it good. You want a good bonus, then do what has to be done to succeed. There are set standards for what a bonus is paid on. I am a white guy working in a inner city store. I make it my job to have a great store that makes me a bonus, not only because I like the bonus, but because I have pride in the store and my work. Where is your pride?

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How can you say discrimination?

Walgreens has been slapped with a federal lawsuit for discrimination because they have "unjustly" placed African-American employees in under performing urban stores in predominantly African-American neighborhoods.

Just like the Walgreens company, I believe people like to see a reflection of themselves staring back at me when I go to the store. In African-American communities, sorry to say it, people like African-Americans to serve them. In white areas people like white people serving them. On Neptune, people like Neptunians serving them. Walgreens has the highest percentage of minorities I have seen of any retail store and offers service in many languages. Perhaps it was just making good business decisions to have African-American managers and pharmacists in urban stores located in African-American neighborhoods.

While the ideal world would be colorblind, the real one is not. That is a sad fact, however, providing customers with service representatives that represent the population is not discrimination, it is good business. I am glad for civil rights laws, but this is an abuse.

I would believe that in giving communities staff which is representative of the area, we are accepting and acknowledging the differences in culture and attempting to better serve the customer. If you don't feel comfortable with your pharmacist, you will not talk to them. While African-American pharmacists and managers might not be the only way to make a patient visiting a neighborhood Walgreens feel at ease, it is a start. A patient at ease and comfortable with their pharmacist will communicate better and be better served by the expertise of the pharmacist's consultation.

Tuna fish suspension!?!?

Ok, i know this is strange sounding, but I think it is really cool. I just made a tuna fish suspension for dispensing a drug to a cat. I work at a Walgreens and we compound specialty drugs for all different purposes, but this has to be the strangest think I've ever heard of, but it was really cool. Well I guess if a doctor can think of it, we can make it.

Same Sex Marriage

WTF
Wow! This is crazy. I have never seen so many people so scared before. What are you scared of? Same sex couples? Really? In Wisconsin the marriage amendment has passed. This was brought about in order to rally the conservative voting block for the governor race, however the democratic incumbant has still won. Now I'm not going to say that the Gov. is someone worthy of voting for, I actually voted against him. However, why would this be something that people would be brought to the polls by? The amendment does nothing other than write prejudice into the state constitution and prevent elderly couples and commonlaw couples from recieving benefits from their partners. The same sex couples could not marry under state law before in Wisconsin, so in effect the prejudice being exploited is nothing new. Everyone who voted for this amendment should take a good look at themselves and ask why they are so afraid.

Rich's World

Rich's World
The funny thing about working late at night is that you hear the most interesting things. When there aren't crazy people around making you laugh, you must entertain yourself. I have turned to listening to conspiracy theories and aliens on Coast to Coast AM. This has been something that I usually just laugh at, but sometimes when I listen I get really mad at the extremest views that are held.
I am a christian. I follow in God's path. However, to me that means I have to seak the truth. So what is the truth? Does anyone really have that answer? I know that I certainly don't, but that means that I keep searching. The Da Vinci Code, is that the answer? I doubt it since it's just a novel published for entertainment. Does that mean it will lead me astray on my search for the truth? NO. It means that I read it and enjoy the story, or watch the movie for entertainment. However it does raise interesting questions. These questions we need to find our own answers for and not let the leaders of society and Christianity tell us what to believe. If you have a problem with The Da Vinci Code, make sure it is because you don't agree with what it tells you... and remember that it's just a story.

The Cheesecake Factory

I like food... I like food a lot. I'm picky, but usually won't complain about much. However, today I went out to eat at The Cheesecake Factory and I was thoroughly unimpressed. I have never been a huge fan of The Cheesecake Factory, primarily because I thought of it as just an over-priced restaurant that had cheesecake that didn't live up to the expectations of someone who had lived in NYC and understood paying $8 for a piece of good cheesecake. I'd also been unimpressed with the timeliness that I had experiences at other locations. I guess you can sum up my opinion of the place as highly overrated.
Arriving at the restaurant at about 7:45pm on a Sunday, I was surprised to see people standing and waiting everywhere in the lobby and outside. I was pleased when the hostess told us the wait would only be 5 to 10 minutes, however, extremely irritated at her attitude towards us when we inquired after about 10 minutes how much longer the wait was going to be. With the luck of the gods, we also were given a waiter trainee to serve us. The introductions were rough and we felt sorry for the kid, but when the bread arrived without appetizer or bread plates, the cuteness factor wore off. After about 15 minutes of waiting for his beer, my companion also had to request it again. We believe this is when the order was actually put in to the kitchen because the food didn't come for about another 30 minutes.
The management was extremely apologetic and actually waved the whole food and desert bill. The food was not anything impressive, but free is always a good price. The cheesecake was something that the restaurant has the right to brag about, it was good... NYC good! I liked it a lot. We all left the place stuffed and none of us finished the cheesecake we had ordered. All over, it wasn't a horrible experience, but I definitely do not think that the food is worth the prices they charge. The cheesecake, however, is worth every penny.

Welcome

I'm Rich and this is my world. There is no real reason for me to have a blog, but I thought it would be interesting to place this on my website somehow. Perhaps I'll make this into something profound, but if you know me, then you also know how doubtful it is that I'll be doing this for more than a week. This might end up being a resource tool for prospective pharmacy school students, or perhaps even the venue for the screenplay for the next great movie.