Chemist shops???

[R1Geezer]

Why are they all 100 degrees and staffed by people who have one speed, ie bleedin slow? I went in today, I was the only person in the shop, you could fry an egg on the counter, there where 2 staff, they had to put 3 boxes in a bag, it took 20 minutes! Every Chemist I've ever ben into is the same, even ASDA/Tesco. Do you need special qualifications to work in them in order to this sh1te?

[B00]

Maybe the heat has something to do with their sluggishness?

[LoftyLottie]

Our local Bots has about 2 staff and a pharmacist and you can't buy paracetamol etc. during the pharmacist's lunch hour. I never go in there. I'm not an impatient person, but it does my head in!!

[B00]

you have a local bot Lottie? I want one!

[LoftyLottie]

he he BOO. I meant, of course BOO.................................... TS!! XX

[VHG]

>bleedin slow?

Rather that, than they rush around and give the wrong medicine to the wrong person.

Making one simple mistake with tablets could easily kill someone.

[Greedyfly]

Our local hospital is the same. I would have thought the heat would help the germs spread/multiply. I swear the physio department has the heating on all year around. They do themselves no favours. I feel sorry for the physios who have to deal with peoples smelly feet and the like.

[boxtops]

I went in Boots today just after 9am and it was stifling, the counter assistant said the aircon hasn't worked for ages. I would be slowed up working in those conditions.

[Greedyfly]

I used to work in a shop did do for nine years and all the time I was there the air con did not work one summer!

It was ridiculously hot all the time. Even the customers complained.

[boxtops]

Lotty, you amaze me. Most of the chemists in our town sell painkillers over the counter, and at Tesco you can just buy them off the shelf and put them through the till. It's only heavier drugs like co-codamol that you can only buy when the pharmacist is present - and that's not the shops being difficult, it's the law.

[B00]

We're the opposite at our place Greedy. The customers are forever whinging that's its cold.

[AlBags]

Boots kept me waiting nearly half an hour a while back for some ruddy anti-biotic tablets. Not a truckload, just 20!
How bad is that!?

[B00]

Very.

I hope you huffed and puffed and loudly complained stating things like "in my day...."

(you hate me, don't ya Albags?)

[dothawkes31]

My daughter worked in a chemist from being 16 to 20 and she had to do endless courses and modules and she wasn't even dispensing the presciptions! But it was boring and the customers were always moaning lol

[B00]

Ahhh, she knows Albags then?

[Greedyfly]

I look forward to training to be a pharmacist. Although I will not be working in a boots type shop!

[muchlovex]

It gets on my nerves as well as how slow they are at Boots. No I haven't got a ruddy Advantage card...and I don't want one...now can I just pay for my goods and go!.

[mike11111]

Can't say I've particularly noticed the heat in pharmacies but I dread going in to buy something as you are met by the Spanish Inquisition. Have you had these before? Are you on any other medication? Have you not tried (something else)? &c &c. The only way round it is to lie through your teeth - I usually say, "They're not for me but a neighbour, who is too poorly to come out".

[poodicat]

I went into my local chemist to get a comb,sorry dont stock them anymore

[AlBags]

It won't work Boo

I think I love you x

[Coobeastie]

There's a reason for the questions mike1111 better to be asked then to have what you've come in for interact with what you're already taking and either not work or kill you. Doctors don't spend that much time learning about the drugs they prescribe, Pharmacists do and the buck stops with them if you keel over.