Ooooh, warstories thread.
I used to work at this mail-order pharmacy (I won't disclose the name, just in case any of you/your parents go through it). My coworkers were all a bunch of middle-aged women ('cept one dude and the pharmacists), who just complained the entire time about their kids/grandkids. My boss was this older guy (fourties/early fifties-ish) who just gave you that look. He rarely said anything. Say you printed a label off for a bottle of pills and put it on slightly crooked. He would take the bottle back down the line, cross his arms, hold out the bottle, and stare at you over his glasses until you explained what the problem was, and that you would fix it as he stood there. First time he did it to me, I freaked out. It was pretty hilarious, really.
My biggest quip with the place was that I was signed on to do computer work/maintenence, and they shoved me in the back, dispensing and packing, when I had no medical experience what-so-ever. x: I didn't realize that "No experience needed" actually meant "Any monkey can shove pills in a bottle."
Anyways, I was a temp, and when I started there, I had zero work experience and knew absolutely nothing at all about pills, except you took Tylonol when you had a headache. Eight months later, I could tell you pretty much anything about any sort of pill (what it did, the strength, etc), knew the mailing/packing system by heart, maintained all the dispensing/packing computers, did all the running around, and was known throughout the building for never messing up an order my entire time there, and was told that I was an asset to them. I was expecting to be asked about being hired in, but after work one friday, as I was giving my final presentation in my one Photoshop class, the temp agency called and said that I would not be returning to work on Monday, and that was that. I was annoyed at the last-minute/awkward call, butyeah. I hated the job, and loved it all the same, but for my first jaunt into the working world, it was quite the shell-shock. x:
tl;dr: PILLS HERE.
