my first job at 17 years old was Walgreens. After 3 months, they stuck me in pharmacy without any training. Had to put up with sh** from people because i couldn't tell them what was best for their child's stomach ache. then, sometimes i'd take calls and doctors would speak medical jargon and i had to relay to the pharmacist. so, the pharmacist got pissed b/c i had this look on my face. trust me, no one's too young.
Is anyone else scared that you can't serve booze until you're 18, but it's OK to dispense prescription drugs?
lol, to be fair, i think i might have turned 18 by the time they sent me to pharmacy. but still, it wasn't as if all of a sudden i knew the difference b/t a cold sore and herpes.
You got snubbed, Eddie. Find some way that you're different from all the other employees -- hopefully, race, country of origin, sex, or religion -- and sue the drug store for discrimination.
Actually I was thinking along the lines that Smokey was thinking. There should be some State license that says you have some idea of what you are doing. Pharmacies are the last line of defense for the patient receiving prescriptions. We had an incident avoided here at work a few weeks ago where the clerk at the pharmacy recognized that a insulin prescription written for an infant was 100 times the recommended amount for an adult and had it double checked. If the baby had been given the injection she would have died. I don't think I would want that responsibility without the proper training.
