Prece*torship - Day 14

Having tahaned at my workplace for two weeks, Week 3 happens to be more relaxed. At least, for Monday and Tuesday.

Firstly, S went on medical leave on monday. No more scoldings. Maybe like what she said, other people could have scolded me for screwing up but they didn't, so i can't learn anything - but she will.

I dunno whether her going on medical leave is good or bad, or it is just temporary relief. Hell hath its fury tomorrow when she comes back to work.

Let's introduce some of the working staff there. I guess everyone's there's quite nice.

Firstly there's Entian, my other counterpart (student) at the place. Our working hours are staggered, and we have different lunch breaks. Hence, unlike what i thought, we don't communicate very much. And there's not much chance to communicate either - the place is so busy.

There are two pre-regs there. Nice people that you can depend on, especially when it comes to brand-generic problems. In addition, there's also one pharmacy technician (PT) who always treats me to food... as well as collect the product inserts inside the packaging - in exchange, i do most of the computer work for her.

the various pharmacy assistants (PA) and product promoters are very nice too. they are the experts when it comes to locating items outside the pharmacy - some of them can even tell you the availability of a product to the exact size (small, medium, large) that is stocked to the country of manufacture.

oh and one of the PAs calls me her darling! *faints*

furthermore in addition to the people i've seen, there are the various locums and "replacements" that i've seen - pharmacists from paragon, west mall, taka, and so far, 3 locums. some of them do talk to you - and do remember your name. it's actually quite nice working with them.

and of course, there's our (entian and me) prece*tors.

Work - it's tiring. i may work one of the lesser hours-per-day (7 hours) compared to others, but these hours are hell. imagine a situation where p-form after p-form keeps coming in and you have a whole avalanche of customers waiting outside, some impatiently. also, there's the other extreme - like these two days - it was so quiet that we could finally have lunch, go toilet, stack up some drugs, have a small chat, learn some stuff or finally do the things that we wanna do.

I would say... the work here is bearable. Though i'm probably not going to learn much, or any of the minor ailments stuff. But i guess i will get a good headstart on the POM medications and (hopefully) my speed in keying Rx will be faster. You win some, you lose some.

Tomorrow - will hell hath its fury? Stay tuned...