I wake up at midnight to go to work. I felt sick and had been exposed to others who had COVID, so I left early and went to test. It wasn't COVID, but clearly I have something b/c my joints, muscles and body hurt, aside from other symptoms. The doctor put in a prescription for antibiotics to be on the safe side b/c of low grade fever, and prednisone b/c I'm wheezing. Instead of sleeping like I should have, I stayed up thinking I'd get a text for my meds. When hours went by and no one texted me from Walgreens, I call, get the automated system twice that no prescription was there.
The prescription was put in around 9 AM. It's now 11 something, I decide to drive there after the doctor said she had put it in and even tried a second time. It's at least a half hour drive from my house with the traffic at that hour, having woken up, worked, and feeling sick and in pain and fatigued, I still decide to go because it's 1130ish.
I get there, and ask the employee if they had a prescription in for me b/c I wasn't notified and it allegedly was put in a few hours ago. She has an attitude from the beginning, how they won't notify me IF IT'S NOT ready. I explain that I thought the doctor mistakenly put it in the wrong pharmacy and that is why i was checking, but she said she put it in twice. She says she sees that she put it in twice, and that she has the antibiotic, and I ask if also the Prednisone. She says, "No, and that's why we didn't call you". I am still patient b/c I see that they're busy but her attitude was horrendous from the get-go. She says it'll be ready in an hour and a half (around 1 or 130PM) I said, "OK" even though I felt like I was dying. She then says, "In fact, it won't be ready til 230 PM because we go to lunch". I politely begged her, "Is there any way you can do a little better because I live far away and I can't wait that long in the heat in the car". Her response was an outright and monosyllabic "NO", like she's mad at me because I am asking normal questions while I AM SICK. I was never rude.
Because I won't sit in the sun for three hours while I'm sick like a dog, I started heading home. As soon as I get home, i get a damn call that the prescriptions are ready. Are you KIDDING me? By the time I go back, they're out on lunch so then I'll be really mad. It's Friday. There's crazy traffic. It's not close. I'm sick. I have to wake up at midnight tomorrow again to go to work. I SHOULD be resting, not driving around like a maniac because Walgreen's feels like screwing me around. Why didn't she tell me to wait. I could have saved time, feeling like crap and driving around, and GAS, which I spent 1/4 of a tank going back and forth twice.
Meanwhile, I get that you're busy. I also get that you have to eat. I eat too. I do not, however, tell my customers that they can go around town while I eat. Someone replaces me. The world doesn't shut down because I need to eat, and furthermore, I always inform who is going to help them when I am sent on lunch at a specific time.
I walk 8 miles a day at my job. I can't even walk to my car at the moment from the pain I feel in my joints and muscles, and I'm driving like I'm going on vacation. I need to be in bed!
1. Why does it take Walgreen's to put in a prescription for Prednisone and a common antibiotic almost SIX HOURS, lunch included?
2. Why does the entire staff go to lunch and the place close down. This is a PHARMACY, not a bar. It's where SICK people go to get better. There should be staff during the day, let alone on a Friday.
Long story short [even though I just explained everything and made it long] I've been up since midnight, sick, and driving in 100 degree heat, wasting gas and time and have not had a chance to rest and recuperate to wake up again at midnight tomorrow to go to work, and all this having dealt with an employee or pharmacist (don't know what she was) that clearly should NOT be working with people who feel ill or in the medical industry at all.
I called and complained to the store manager. He was nice and apologetic and said he'd talk to her. But honestly, please work with *things*, not people or animals, or even plants, if you have this type of attitude.
I will be taking my business elsewhere. It's not like there aren't other pharmacies. read more