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The First Encounter

Also, if it was the waitstaffs literal job to talk to my dietician and see if there was an alternate hamburger that cost less than $540, or if my dietician had records saying the hamburger was covered and the restaraunt didn't get the memo.

Also, please highlight where in the post I say I yelled at anyone.

the cost of a drug is determined by a combo of the manufacturer, the insurance company, and *sometimes* the pharmacy’s corporate office. the tech who gets paid $16/hr at an understaffed pharmacy and serves upwards of 150 patients a day is not CVS corporate offices. we do not set drug prices. if i knew why my patient’s medication cost $30 more this month than last month, i would tell them. but i don’t. there’s no way for us to know and frankly there’s not enough time in our day to even attempt to dig for that information on top of everything else that needs to get done. please be more patient with your pharmacy staff. give them a modicum of grace. i know some terrible techs who have no idea what they’re doing, i understand how upsetting they can be, but maybe consider the majority of us are trying really hard to do our job well with no support.

i have been screamed and sworn at, had things thrown at me, been called terrible things, and had more than one patient threaten to beat me up. and i’ve had it easier than most of my coworkers.

your pharmacy technician working at 8pm on a week night has probably been there since 8am, 9am at the latest, and hasn’t sat down or eaten anything since clocking in. just because it looks “slow” to you doesn’t mean it is or that it has been all day. week days are the busiest days at the pharmacy, mondays being the worst of the worst. that tech probably had 2-3 pages of rxs waiting to be filled, a basket full of returns, fifty bags to put away, a line in the drive thru, stock bottles that need to be put back, and three voicemails to clear within an hour of being received. there is never a moment in the pharmacy where there is nothing to do. “slow” isn’t really a thing for us.

"Aw, shucks!" Was my response. "You couldn't order it from a school approved vendor? Even with our funds?

"Basically," she groaned. "The usual place isn't open that day and I wasn't going to order from the other one."

"What was the other one?" I asked.

"It's" she wrinkled her face and whispered. "A kosher pizzeria."

I waited for the follow up. It didn't come. I repeated her words. "because it's kosher ? "

"Yeah." She sighed. "I just can't endorse that. With global politics."

"You can't endorse a local restaurant so you're not getting pizza for 8 year olds?"

"Yeah. And I bet that their stuff isn't that good -"

"Actually," I interrupted. "That place is fantastic. I love their pizza."

[Main Character] Dietrich (Voiced by: Satoshi Hino) — Of House Lamine

A beautiful swordsman who continues seeking battles with the strongest opponents to satisfy his thirst.

A foreigner who has come from the land of “Fódlan” beyond the sea.