Accept, Clear or Cancel?

Posted by The *Angriest* Pharmacist as Stupid People, Update

Credit Cards. I take ‘em. Hell, everybody does. Plastic is all that we’re gonna have in a few years. Paper and coins are on the way out. Money floats in the air around us all day long.

People come to pick up their prescription. They pay with credit cards. To finalize this transaction, they must sign the “Signature Capture Machine.” After signing we are faced with the decision of a lifetime: ACCEPT, CLEAR, or CANCEL. Which should we choose? I don’t know!

Let’s analyze the decision so as not to make the wrong choice. ACCEPT finishes the transaction. You can get home and start popping your Vicodin (pronounced Vike-O-Deen of course). CLEAR erases your signature if you made an error such as signing “Lou Gehrig,” “Maya Angelou,” or “Captain Jack Sparrow” instead of your actual name. And finally we have CANCEL which of course ends the transaction as if you say, “I’d rather pay with cash, not this new fangled Credit Card.”

Why is this such an incredibly hard decision, people? Why can’t you just hit ACCEPT? You know you want to! You DO NOT WANT CLEAR OR CANCEL. All you are doing is wasting my time. And, how do we rationalize our haste when we make the stupid decision of CLEAR or CANCEL? “Whoops, I wish they’d make all of these things the same everywhere. They are all different!”

God forbid we have to read occasionally….

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