Comments on: Kim off meds http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/2009/11/02/kim-off-meds/ Enthusiasm is contagious; start an epidemic. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:40:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Melissa http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/2009/11/02/kim-off-meds/#comment-14575 Melissa Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:59:38 +0000 http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/?p=5321#comment-14575 Hi, I'm a tech at target pharmacy and I hate auto fill as well. The calls are made from a central location, and we have no control over the calls. The calling system has been messed up for a long time, calling people way too late or calling them when nothing is ready. I wish they would just cancel the whole thing. Please don't get mad at the pharmacy staff. We are just trying to do our jobs, and when you yell at us or get mad, that just adds on the the 10 people who have yelled at us earlier that day. As for the time it takes to fill a prescription, even though you may be the only one at the counter, we could have 8 people in line ahead of you who just left the counter. And no, we cannot just hand a nuvaring over to you, thats against the law. Please be nice to your pharmacists and pharmacy techs! Hi, I’m a tech at target pharmacy and I hate auto fill as well. The calls are made from a central location, and we have no control over the calls. The calling system has been messed up for a long time, calling people way too late or calling them when nothing is ready. I wish they would just cancel the whole thing. Please don’t get mad at the pharmacy staff. We are just trying to do our jobs, and when you yell at us or get mad, that just adds on the the 10 people who have yelled at us earlier that day.

As for the time it takes to fill a prescription, even though you may be the only one at the counter, we could have 8 people in line ahead of you who just left the counter. And no, we cannot just hand a nuvaring over to you, thats against the law.

Please be nice to your pharmacists and pharmacy techs!

]]> By: mom http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/2009/11/02/kim-off-meds/#comment-13973 mom Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:35:27 +0000 http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/?p=5321#comment-13973 I thought they always said an hour just to get you to shop in the store longer. I shop for 20 min then check, it's almost always ready. I thought they always said an hour just to get you to shop in the store longer. I shop for 20 min then check, it’s almost always ready.

]]> By: Gina (Mannyed) http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/2009/11/02/kim-off-meds/#comment-13905 Gina (Mannyed) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:27:14 +0000 http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/?p=5321#comment-13905 "Kim Off Meds" hahahah, congratulations! That was funny. I don't use auto-fill at CVS, but I am able to go online and request my refill and the time I will cone in to pick them up. That works for me. “Kim Off Meds” hahahah, congratulations! That was funny. I don’t use auto-fill at CVS, but I am able to go online and request my refill and the time I will cone in to pick them up. That works for me.

]]> By: Bethany http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/2009/11/02/kim-off-meds/#comment-13897 Bethany Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:52:40 +0000 http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/?p=5321#comment-13897 I have no idea how auto-fill works with pills, but I'm kind of glad now I don't have to deal with that right now! It sounds beyond confusing!! .-= Author's last blog post... <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BethanysParadise/~3/k5AV8JVVv4w/money-madness.html" rel="nofollow">Money Madness</a> =-. I have no idea how auto-fill works with pills, but I’m kind of glad now I don’t have to deal with that right now! It sounds beyond confusing!!
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]]> By: kaylen http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/2009/11/02/kim-off-meds/#comment-13878 kaylen Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:05:08 +0000 http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/?p=5321#comment-13878 Hi Amanda - I was being slightly snarky in that comment, the next line in my comment referred to how 24Hour Fitness needs 30 days to cancel your membership. I work full-time and I know that sometimes things get busy and sometimes things are slow, but even in the slow periods of work, when someone asks for something, we give them the biggest estimate of time it would possibly take to fill the job, regardless of whether we are in a downtime or not. It covers our ass for when we are very busy...and I really believe that the post in question had to do with this issue. She was told it would take an hour, but she came back in 20 min and it was ready. I don't think the pharmacist lied to her. I think he covered his ass in case it was going to take him 60 minutes, not the 15 he probably knew it would take. Even at 24HF, I would guess that they can actually cancel your membership in 48 hrs if there was some emergent reason that they needed to but they will never tell you that. I meant no disrespect to your profession, or any other. My point was that people do make things out to be harder than they seem at many times and the phramacist at that time probably knew that it would not take him an hour to get that one script ready, but why would he admit that to anyone? Then there would be false expectations in the future. I'll cross-posted this to my blog as well, seeing as you did the same. Cheers, Kaylen .-= Author's last blog post... <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LifeOfKaylen/~3/1KUOmuRQNcg/who-says-earth-is-round-they-are-liar.html" rel="nofollow">Who Says The Earth Is Round?? They Are A Liar!</a> =-. Hi Amanda – I was being slightly snarky in that comment, the next line in my comment referred to how 24Hour Fitness needs 30 days to cancel your membership.
I work full-time and I know that sometimes things get busy and sometimes things are slow, but even in the slow periods of work, when someone asks for something, we give them the biggest estimate of time it would possibly take to fill the job, regardless of whether we are in a downtime or not. It covers our ass for when we are very busy…and I really believe that the post in question had to do with this issue. She was told it would take an hour, but she came back in 20 min and it was ready. I don’t think the pharmacist lied to her. I think he covered his ass in case it was going to take him 60 minutes, not the 15 he probably knew it would take.
Even at 24HF, I would guess that they can actually cancel your membership in 48 hrs if there was some emergent reason that they needed to but they will never tell you that.

I meant no disrespect to your profession, or any other. My point was that people do make things out to be harder than they seem at many times and the phramacist at that time probably knew that it would not take him an hour to get that one script ready, but why would he admit that to anyone? Then there would be false expectations in the future.
I’ll cross-posted this to my blog as well, seeing as you did the same.
Cheers,
Kaylen
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]]> By: Amanda http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/2009/11/02/kim-off-meds/#comment-13875 Amanda Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:16:45 +0000 http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/?p=5321#comment-13875 wow, I just read your other comments and am having to refrain from leaving a not-nice comment in regards to "….because they want to make their job seem harder than it ever possibly could be." What a crock! Our jobs ARE hard, and extremely stressful. .-= Author's last blog post... <a href="http://adventuresinourfunnyfarm.blogspot.com/2009/11/24-hour-urine-collection.html" rel="nofollow">24 Hour Urine Collection</a> =-. wow, I just read your other comments and am having to refrain from leaving a not-nice comment in regards to “….because they want to make their job seem harder than it ever possibly could be.” What a crock! Our jobs ARE hard, and extremely stressful.
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]]> By: Amanda http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/2009/11/02/kim-off-meds/#comment-13874 Amanda Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:13:31 +0000 http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/?p=5321#comment-13874 I work as a pharmacist in a hospital now so I don't know how auto-refills work but let me just stick up for pharmacists a bit. I worked in a retail store for a few years so I definitely understand how pharmacies usually work. "So, they told me it would take an hour to “fill” my prescription (which is not actually pills, so I don’t know what was going to take so frickin’ long)" Even though it sounds like it was their mistake that your Rx wasn't ready, and they should have tried to rush it....it isn't as simple as everyone thinks of just grabbing it and sticking a label on it. The pharmacist has to answer patient questions, and doctor phone calls in the middle of checking every prescription that comes through. Target typically only has one pharmacist working at time, but your store could be different. You have to think about the probably dozen or so Rxs that doctors have called in, patients have called in refills for on voicemail (if Target has this) and brought in in the last hour before you, just because you're there yours can't automatically become the first one filled. It still has to be processed in the computer "in line" and be filled by a technician, then checked by the pharmacist. Now most Target pharmacies are NOT that busy so an hour seems outrageously long to me, but so many people wonder what takes so long, so maybe that explains it just a little bit. .-= Author's last blog post... <a href="http://adventuresinourfunnyfarm.blogspot.com/2009/11/24-hour-urine-collection.html" rel="nofollow">24 Hour Urine Collection</a> =-. I work as a pharmacist in a hospital now so I don’t know how auto-refills work but let me just stick up for pharmacists a bit. I worked in a retail store for a few years so I definitely understand how pharmacies usually work.
“So, they told me it would take an hour to “fill” my prescription (which is not actually pills, so I don’t know what was going to take so frickin’ long)”
Even though it sounds like it was their mistake that your Rx wasn’t ready, and they should have tried to rush it….it isn’t as simple as everyone thinks of just grabbing it and sticking a label on it. The pharmacist has to answer patient questions, and doctor phone calls in the middle of checking every prescription that comes through. Target typically only has one pharmacist working at time, but your store could be different. You have to think about the probably dozen or so Rxs that doctors have called in, patients have called in refills for on voicemail (if Target has this) and brought in in the last hour before you, just because you’re there yours can’t automatically become the first one filled. It still has to be processed in the computer “in line” and be filled by a technician, then checked by the pharmacist. Now most Target pharmacies are NOT that busy so an hour seems outrageously long to me, but so many people wonder what takes so long, so maybe that explains it just a little bit.
.-= Author’s last blog post… 24 Hour Urine Collection =-.

]]> By: kaylen http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/2009/11/02/kim-off-meds/#comment-13861 kaylen Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:45:23 +0000 http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/?p=5321#comment-13861 I don't know why you're even picking up a prescription when your calendar very clearly states that you are off meds! I think that the pharmacist tells you it will take an hour to go get something from the fridge just like the 24 Hour Fitness tells you it will take 30 days to process your cancelling your membership....because they want to make their job seem harder than it ever possibly could be. .-= Author's last blog post... <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LifeOfKaylen/~3/9dCdPMmdTaw/weekend-wrap-upand-cinematic-super.html" rel="nofollow">Weekend Wrap-up...And A Cinematic-Super-Special GIVEAWAY!</a> =-. I don’t know why you’re even picking up a prescription when your calendar very clearly states that you are off meds!

I think that the pharmacist tells you it will take an hour to go get something from the fridge just like the 24 Hour Fitness tells you it will take 30 days to process your cancelling your membership….because they want to make their job seem harder than it ever possibly could be.
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]]> By: *lynne* http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/2009/11/02/kim-off-meds/#comment-13857 *lynne* Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:23:23 +0000 http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/?p=5321#comment-13857 Oh you're not hte only one who has faced problems with target and its "autofill" feature... at first everything worked fine, we'd get that creepy call about 2x a month due to different meds having been filled at different times... but then... the calls stopped coming,,, but the meds were languishing waiting for pick-up... and no thanks to incompetent folks manning the pharmacy, they actually double-filled one of the meds because it had beeen auto-filled and when we called to check if it was ready the person didn't see/check properly and filled it out again... we're still trying to iron out that impact, many months later! .-= Author's last blog post... <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LifeAfterWork/~3/XJwpyQY0Z6E/music-monday-22-my-2.html" rel="nofollow">Music Monday #22 (my #2): Meat Loaf</a> =-. Oh you’re not hte only one who has faced problems with target and its “autofill” feature… at first everything worked fine, we’d get that creepy call about 2x a month due to different meds having been filled at different times… but then… the calls stopped coming,,, but the meds were languishing waiting for pick-up… and no thanks to incompetent folks manning the pharmacy, they actually double-filled one of the meds because it had beeen auto-filled and when we called to check if it was ready the person didn’t see/check properly and filled it out again… we’re still trying to iron out that impact, many months later!
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]]> By: Julia http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/2009/11/02/kim-off-meds/#comment-13856 Julia Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:47:38 +0000 http://www.ilaxstudio.com/blog/?p=5321#comment-13856 What a disaster! Prescriptions can be such a hassle. My biggest problem is when the prescription runs out and I'm stuck trying to get a doctor's appt. or just get a doctor on the phone to refill it. Doctors are sooo diff. to get ahold of! .-= Author's last blog post... <a href="http://joggingmymemory.com/blog/julia/2009/11/a-halloween-hike/" rel="nofollow">A Halloween Hike</a> =-. What a disaster! Prescriptions can be such a hassle. My biggest problem is when the prescription runs out and I’m stuck trying to get a doctor’s appt. or just get a doctor on the phone to refill it. Doctors are sooo diff. to get ahold of!
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