When They Realize The World Doesn’t Revolve Around Them It Can Be A Struggle
DRUG STORE, JERK, PHARMACY, USA | RIGHT | AUGUST 17, 2020
I’m a pharmacy technician at a national chain drug store. We are a little short-staffed and I am the only tech working this morning for several hours. I am doing my best to handle the line at the front counter, the line in the drive-thru, and the multiple incoming phone calls. The next tech is due to clock in shortly.
I have just finished helping the last person in the drive-thru, turned around to check that no one was at the front counter, and then picked up one of the three phone calls I had on hold at the moment. Not even a minute into the conversation, with a very nice lady who is inquiring about the shingles vaccine, I hear a woman very loudly behind me.
Customer: *Very rudely* “Umm, hello? You know you’ve got people waiting over here? There’s a line forming!”
I turn around to see the woman glaring at me over the counter and a single elderly gentleman behind her. I respond in my customer service voice.
Me: “Okay, I’ll be with you shortly. I’m on the phone with another patient.”
Customer: “Yeah, I can see that. Why don’t you just tell her no and hang up?!”
The pharmacist steps in, speaking very firmly.
Pharmacist: “Ma’am, she will be with you shortly.”
Customer: *Sarcastically* “Yeah, I got that! Where’s your hydrogen peroxide?!”
The pharmacist tells her where to find it… directly on the wall behind her. I have turned my attention back to the phone call, trying to ignore the lady, whom I can still hear complaining to the elderly man behind her that “apparently, we’re less important than the shingles.” I finish the phone call and go to the counter to finish ringing up the woman, who is also picking up her prescription. I am still in customer service mode.
Me: “Do you have a phone number for rewards?”
Customer: “Oh no, I’m never coming back here again! I only came here because you had the better price for my prescription. But I’m not coming back after this!”
Me: “Okay… have a good day.”
A few minutes after she left, the second tech came in. Apparently, as she was walking back to the pharmacy, the angry customer saw her in her uniform and confronted her, telling her that she needed to hurry up and get back to work because there was a line of people waiting! Still don’t know what line this lady imagined was there. The gentleman behind her was very nice.
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