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Hands tied at work?

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mattpegher

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Frustrated with the constant roadblocks to doing my job. Working on a sunday and all of the local pharmacies are about to close.

Anyone else with examples of situations where your boss/job wanted you to do something but tied your hands so that doing as asked was unreasonably difficult? And any remedies that you came up with?

So many here? I just don't think they know what were supposed to be doing.

(awaiting also witty reparte regarding S&M in the workplace, as I know how AT:OT is)
 
Pharmacies have short hours on Sundays... if they're open at all. Why would this be frustrating to you? They can get their meds on Monday.
 
Whoozyerdaddy said:
Pharmacies have short hours on Sundays... if they're open at all. Why would this be frustrating to you? They can get their meds on Monday.
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As an emergency medicine physician, I just want my patients to start their meds ASAP, especially antibiotics. My associate says he doesnt care but I guess I'm just too much of a softy, (over inflated paternal instinct).
 
No 24 hour pharmacies in your area?

(are 24 hour pharmacies even open 24 on Sunday?)

Edit: Looking around Lexington, there are several Walgreens (maybe others) that are indeed open 24 hours a day including Sundays.
 
Engineer said:
No 24 hour pharmacies in your area?

(are 24 hour pharmacies even open 24 on Sunday?)

Edit: Looking around Lexington, there are several Walgreens (maybe others) that are indeed open 24 hours a day including Sundays.
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Just because a Walgreens is open 24 hrs, has no relation on it's PHARMACY hours. Those may be regulated locally.
 
I'm an IT contractor and work for a decent company, but the customer I am stationed at is brutal to work for. He is all about red tape and huge politics. He wants all these crazy things to happen but we're not allowed to make any changes to the environment. We do certain changes only when we HAVE to (like if something is down) but we get in deep crap for it every time. He's one of those people who knows nothing about IT and thinks computers are magic and we can just click a few things to make things happen.

He keeps raving about this "standard image" yet we're not even allowed to do windows updates or anything so each PC is on a different patch level and that's not counting the fact that they have all these crappy proprietary apps too so we are dealing with snow flakes basically. He wants us to change that, yet we're not allowed to actually do it. To make matters worse, each PC is different hardware. They buy 1 PC at a time, instead of buying all in one shot so they're all the same model. There's people running P3's, others running Quad cores, and everything in between. Some windows 2000, some XP, there's even a few Vista machines lingering around. We're not allowed to actually change this because it's simply not our say. Yet he wants us to change it.

I got another job at my company where I won't have to deal with customers or crap like that anymore. Can't wait to actually start. They are having trouble finding someone who wants to replace me LOL.
 
When I worked in a rural hospital with an active ER and no 24 hour pharmacy, we gave out starter packs of medications, 24 hours worth, kept the costs down (compared to a full Rx) and made sure the patients safety wasn't compromised.
 
At the hospital I work at they actually have a pill vending machine! It looks up the EMR and dispenses the right medication. Ok not really a vending machine but I like to call it that. They should add a coin slot and just put it out in the main hall, bet they'd make lot of money off that LOL.

"Ohh, Percocets, D9, insert loonie..."
 
Pliablemoose said:
When I worked in a rural hospital with an active ER and no 24 hour pharmacy, we gave out starter packs of medications, 24 hours worth, kept the costs down (compared to a full Rx) and made sure the patients safety wasn't compromised.
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I do have a limited supply of meds, mostly the cheap stuff, because if I give it to a patient I am not allowed to charge them and the insurance wont pay for oral med.
(I staff the facility, contracted through my employer. Hospital owns the practice)
 
Red Squirrel said:
At the hospital I work at they actually have a pill vending machine! It looks up the EMR and dispenses the right medication. Ok not really a vending machine but I like to call it that. They should add a coin slot and just put it out in the main hall, bet they'd make lot of money off that LOL.

"Ohh, Percocets, D9, insert loonie..."
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This is already happening in some big centers, but not out here in the backwoods of PA/NJ/NY
 
brainhulk said:
give them a dose of antibiotic in the ED that has a 24 hour duration of action
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I usually end up doing just that. But I have to give it in a shot IM or IV for the insurance to pay for it, otherwise its gratis. (have to increase the price of everything, the insurance only pays 10c on the dollar, dont get paid for medicaid or indegent, increase the price again. Its all a stupid game)
 
mattpegher said:
I usually end up doing just that. But I have to give it in a shot IM or IV for the insurance to pay for it, otherwise its gratis. (have to increase the price of everything, the insurance only pays 10c on the dollar, dont get paid for medicaid or indegent, increase the price again. Its all a stupid game)
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oh make something up and admit them then...geeez
 
I work in car rental. We have a foreign call centre. They often tell customers outright false information or book cars we can't possibly get. The latter usually happens on weekends when nobody else is open. Fleet doesn't work weekends either so there's no way we can get anything, so we get yelled at. Fun.

I'm also tired of the pricks who walk in and bitch. You can give them a brand new car for basically free and they'll find something to bitch about. Too many people like that these days. Just out there to make everyone else miserable because they have no control over their pathetic lives. Hell is other people.
 
Don't you get a lot of samples from the drug reps? For years, I've been under the impression that the drug reps give samples of many types of medications so that the doctors can do exactly what you're faced with - give the patient 24 hours worth of medicine & let them fill their prescription. With the samples in hand, the doctor is more likely to give 24 hours worth and write the prescription for that particular med, rather than for a relatively similar medication produced by a different drug company.
 
last fortune 500 i worked for had managers who were lacking in engineering fundamentals so if there was any disputes of a technical nature, they didnt know how to decide which way to go, so we had meetings where everyone voted on which we thought was the right answer. totally ignoring data.
 
This one time at band camp my boss wanted me to move the cases of flutes from out in the breezeway into a storehouse. But he had tied my hands behind my back. So I kicked out the glass on a door then backed up to it and use the glass shards to cut my ropes. Got the flutes moved in no time and my boss was impressed by my thinking skills.
 
mmntech said:
I work in car rental. We have a foreign call centre. They often tell customers outright false information or book cars we can't possibly get. The latter usually happens on weekends when nobody else is open. Fleet doesn't work weekends either so there's no way we can get anything, so we get yelled at. Fun.

I'm also tired of the pricks who walk in and bitch. You can give them a brand new car for basically free and they'll find something to bitch about. Too many people like that these days. Just out there to make everyone else miserable because they have no control over their pathetic lives. Hell is other people.
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I ran into that in Budapest. Needed a car to hold 9 people with luggage, reserved a van from an 3rd party agent when I got there it could hold 7 people with no luggage if 3 of them were small children. Ended up sending half the party via the train and taking all the luggage in the car (wouldnt call it a van).
I really couldnt hold the people at the rental facility responsible, and they tried hard to find something without success.
 
DrPizza said:
Don't you get a lot of samples from the drug reps? For years, I've been under the impression that the drug reps give samples of many types of medications so that the doctors can do exactly what you're faced with - give the patient 24 hours worth of medicine & let them fill their prescription. With the samples in hand, the doctor is more likely to give 24 hours worth and write the prescription for that particular med, rather than for a relatively similar medication produced by a different drug company.
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Well most of what the reps sample are chronic meds, nothing you would need in a pinch, then some senators get it in there head that the samples make physician use expensive med instead of cheap shit so they enact a bunch of laws that make the pharmaceutical industry stop most of the sampling. No one samples any antibiotics anymore, to few are still under patent to bother.
 
oldsmoboat said:
This one time at band camp my boss wanted me to move the cases of flutes from out in the breezeway into a storehouse. But he had tied my hands behind my back. So I kicked out the glass on a door then backed up to it and use the glass shards to cut my ropes. Got the flutes moved in no time and my boss was impressed by my thinking skills.
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I was waiting for a vagina reference- " one time a band camp"
 
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