Apr

Stop jingling those damn keys…

Posted by The *Angriest* Pharmacist as Rude, Stupid People, True Story, Work Sucks

I work alone sometimes. If I’m lucky, I work with one other person. Occasionally, we both end up on the phone, on the sales floor, or tied up elsewhere. Enter Jackass #1. He gets to the cash register, waits a few seconds, and out come his keys. At first he just shakes them a little bit, allowing me to hear his jingle. I see him, but he can’t necessarily know that I see him. I have no real way to let him know that I’m busy, and I’ll be there as I’m able. He waits as long as he thinks he needs to so he raises his keys in the air and…OOPS! drops them on the counter.

Holy fucking shit this stuff pisses me off. It happens all the time. I don’t have a bell. I don’t need a bell. I have eyeballs. I take a step back, wave at him, and show him that I am on the fucking phone. Does he care? Naw…

He dropped them again. Ohh man I’m hot now. I’m talking to a doctor about a mis-written script. I can’t step back and say, “Hold on just a minute.” I fucking waited for his ear for 10 minutes. This asshole can eat shit!

I couldn’t take it anymore. Three drops, and I lost it. I think I went a little far now, but hindsight is 20/20. I pulled my keys from my own pocket, jingled them a few times, dropped them on the counter not once, not twice, but three times, then in a fury threw them towards my register. They hit the wall, fell to the floor, and the man’s jaw dropped. My face turned red, and I knew I screwed up.

I finished my phone call and skipped down to the register. I bent over and picked up my keys. I looked at him and said, “I’m sorry. But you must realize that I am not here getting paid to ignore you. I have a plain few of the register. I have mirrors here that let me see you from every point in the pharmacy. I don’t need someone creating a bell with their keys in a feeble attempt to get my attention. In most cases, I know the person is going to the register before they even get there.”

The response was classic, “It’s fine…do you have any 12-hour Sudafed?”

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