Where do I start? I hope they are reading this, they probably expect it. The two-star rating is for the pharmacy and not the store. The pharmacy is managed horrendously and needs some work, there are some huge issues going on there, they get the job done more than half of the time I guess. I have nothing against Walgreens itself, but there comes a point where ineptitude and sheer malice converge. Let me break this down as best as I can. I scheduled a series of shots at that pharmacy, the first shot went okay, I walked up and spoke to the pharmacy technician and told her that I had an appointment for a vaccine. She looked at a clipboard with a bunch of names on it and asked me what time. I told her and after going back and forth we both figured out that I needed to tell her that it wasn't a COVID-19 vaccine but for something else.
She appeared to be very frustrated and unorganized and finally told handed me a clipboard to fill out papers. I had to redo the same paperwork that I answered online and I had questions about that. Apparently, this process couldn't move forward unless I checked the ethnicity box next to the race box which was already checked. Okay, strange, I went ahead and checked the black-non Hispanic ethnicity box and handed the clipboard back. The rest went well.
I scheduled the next series of shots online a week out and when I got to the pharmacy, I met the same person at the pharmacy window, this time the balance of malice and ineptitude teetered to the slightly to left respectively. She told me that I would be receiving the two shots that I scheduled and questioned if I knew how much they cost which I found to be odd. As a black man, I found this very offensive, I then told her that I have insurance just like the last time. So I sat down and the waiting area cleared out, I waited there for an hour in an empty waiting area for some reason even after I received a notification through the Walgreens app that both of the vaccines were ready ten minutes after sitting down. I think she, and I will be specific on this one, a Filipino-American female pharmacy technician, I think she and people that work with her were complicit in this malicious action of having me wait much longer than I should have. Another pharmacy technician comes out and gave me the shot.
I immediately scheduled a series of three shots for the next week and I received a phone call from the same woman from the pharmacy two days prior to the appointments (11:00, 11:10, and 11:20). She was very specific and she told me on the phone that one of the three shots was not available and that I should go to another Walgreens to get them. I then told her that I'll just get the other two shots at her location where I have been receiving them before. She rushed me off the phone while saying okay, okay. I thought that whole interaction was very strange. I get there on Friday and I'm standing in line and see some of the same pharmacy personnel walking past the window catching peeks in my direction. I finally get to the window and the pharmacist is there for some reason.
I told her that I had appointments for two shots, but had three in informed her that the pharmacy technician called me to say that another shot wasn't available. She asked me for a confirmation number and I showed her. She said that she couldn't pull up anything. At that moment I knew that the technician canceled my appointments because she did not want me to return there. This is what I mean by malice. The other male technician came out with his clipboard and my phone number on it and said he would give me a call once the medications are in. I asked him why aren't in when I scheduled it a week ago? He said that they may have given the ones allocated for me to someone else. I then asked him that all three shots are not available? That confirmed for me that the technician that called me canceled my whole appointment through malice and I intend on taking this up further. read more