Saturday, February 19, 2000
I almost didn't wake up for work again this morning. Like last Saturday, I woke up after my alarm had gone off and in a state of complete panic. Only this time, I noticed that I woke up only five minutes late and decided the heart attack wasn't going to be completely necessary. At least not until later anyway. I still had to work with Aaron and a fill-in pharmacist on the day of the week that can be the most unpredictable.
I only caught Aaron on the phone twice today, mostly because I told him if he went near the phone one more time that I was going to tie the cord around his neck and then beat him over the head with the phone itself. He also didn't try to get away with drinking up front, although I did nail him on ringing himself out again.
Just what is it with him and not following rules like he's supposed to? Does he not care that much to where he'll try to play stupid with you and act like he didn't know? When I told him the phone thing the first time, he just looked at me like he couldn't believe he was in trouble. I told him not to play dumb with me because it would just get him into more trouble, so he stopped. I just don't get him and his need to not follow the rules, then go ballistic when he gets in trouble. Aaron knows the rules. There's no excuse. One day he's going to slip again, get written up, and get fired. He only has one more strike on him.
Otherwise the day was pretty decent. I was tired most of the day, but that didn't really bother me. There weren't a lot of ad signs to put up this week, so it only took us an hour and a half instead of the usual three to four hour time period. Aaron got to leave early, more than likely because it's easier than listening to him whine about having to be here all the time. Yeah, two days a week is a lot of time on the job. If I had been in my manger's shoes, I wouldn't have let him go. Tough shit Aaron, but this is when you're scheduled. You don't like it? Go find somewhere else to work.
Us pharmacy people have not been happy with the district manager of late. It all stems around the pharmacy assessment tests that pharmacy techs have to take. Well, our DM wants anyone who handles prescriptions to take the test. He's come to this conclusion without consulting with our pharmacist Tom, and that has Tom irked. He doesn't feel it's the DM's area to make pharmacy decisions, since he's not in charge of the pharmacy. Tom has told the front store employees that if they don't want to take it, they don't have to.
Tom does have a point. The front store crew will only know the answer to a couple of the 100 questions, and that's not always guaranteed. Most of the questions are geared towards us technicians since this is a program for techs, not cashiers. To have the DM step in and start saying who should be taking what is a slap in the face of Tom, who should make the decision. Instead, our DM is saying who should take it. This is not a test for those in the front store. This is for pharmacy people. Our front store crew only rings these scripts out and gets information on new ones? Why should they take the assessment?
Frankly, I wish the DM would keep his nose out of the pharmacy. He is not our supervisor and is asking for trouble. He may be able to intimidate managers, but he's messing with the wrong person in Tom. Tom will accept any confrontation from the DM and is not going to sit down and watch the pharmacy fall under someone else's control. And I won't sit still either. I work in the pharmacy and don't feel our DM has the right to stick his nose in our business. I don't care who he is.
My mom's been really sick the last few days with Bronchitis. Unfortunately, I think it's spreading. Today I woke up and had a lot of trouble clearing my throat, then my throat decided to get sore on me. Over the course of the day I've begun to cough as well which means that I'm probably getting what she has. Shit. I don't want to sit around all day, unable to function because I'm that sick.
She's spent nearly the last two days in bed because she's just too sick to move. If I get sick, it's going to make things really interesting considering I'll probably have to miss work. I know Lenny and Mike will go bonkers on me if that happens because I'll be unavailable to close down any of the nights that I'm sick. However, what happens can't be changed, so I'm going to hope that I don't get too sick.
Both of my sisters are also starting to feel under the weather as well. I had to go out and buy another vaporizer because the one my mom already has downstairs just doesn't seem to be getting the job done at this point. Neither humidifier seems to be making much of a difference either, but that's not really that important. What is is that my mom's on three kinds of medicine to try and get this under control and things aren't working out too well yet.
This week will be really interesting if I get really sick. I will not be a pleasant person to talk with. I'm already anti-social to begin with so I really don't need the help.
We found out why my mom hasn't been able to get her e-mail through Exchange Net over the last few days. Apparently, the credit card on file had expired and a new number hadn't been given. This was very interesting to find out since the account is being paid for by my older sister. She claims that she gave them the new expiration date, yet we still can't get my mom's mail out and the billing company says the account isn't active.
Supposedly the situation will be cleared up on Monday. Another hair-pulling situation brought to you by my older sister, always good for some drama when it counts the most.
| Dave's World | Come Again? | Commentary | The Escape Pod | Me, Myself, and I | Music Charts & Reviews | Updates |