Grand scheme of things

Even though I feel like in our meeting I was totally thrown under the bus, I do feel like the tension has melted at work.  I am just using that meeting as a reset point personally when dealling with my coworkers.  Part of me does have some resentment but I know if I cannot move forward from it, things will never get better and we will all just be stuck in an endless cycle of back biting and bitchyness.  And I am over it.  We just need to come together as a team.  And if I had to take all the blame, I guess so be it.  That is how it played out.  I am going to have to except it and move foward.

My husband on the other had is furious.  He cannot believe I was treated that way and thinks I should tell everyone to go to hell and let the owner fire me.  That is just not acceptable.  I was not raised that way.  I do not want the shame and embarrassment that goes along with a firing.  Plus I am good at what I do.  I get paid really well.  I drive 7 miles vs. up to 45 to the city.  No thank you.  He thinks I am letting them walk all over me and that I am not standing up for myself.  I think, the economy is still in the toilet and jobs are still scarce and I better just suck it up for now.

IF something comes along, I might take it.  I might go part time...who knows.  He reciently became partner at his company.  We are business owners now.  That is something I never thought I would say.  So we are busier with that.  I do alot of computer stuff for them.

I know things will work out.  It can only get better from here.  Our new manager starts in March.  It is a woman.  I hope she is not a bitch!

Why?

So if you f*ck up and order the wrong drug in and add it in to inventory and I fix it then don't cop some bull shit attitude with me because you messed up. Ever.  I will let it pass one time.  Next time I will school you very harshly and you may cry.  I am over dealing with bitch attitudes all the time.

Our PIC and only full time Pharmacist quit so that will be interesting.  In one week, hopefully we have a replacement.  I hope we get a old vetern that will not take any shit from these bitches.  I am so over it.

Here's what technicians shouldn't do...

Tecnicians should never recommend any OTC products to customers EVER.  NEVER EVER.  Even if we know the answers, it should not cross our lips.  I am a pretty educated and smart person BUT I do not have a RpH or PharmD after my name so I know better.  But this other tech, she will go out there and start recommening products left and right.  Cough and cold for children under 3.  Sure why not.   40 year old man with cold symptoms: sudafed...I'm like really???  You didn't even look at his profile or talk to a pharmacist about his medical problems.  She asked him if he had high blood pressure.  He said no.  But the next day he filled medicine for high blood pressure! 

This same tech also councils patients on medications.  I don't think she has even been to college let alone Pharmacy school.  Aparently she had some people in the community convinced she is a Pharmacist.  She never wears her name tag that says she is a tech!   I am so frustrated!  We have already had a meeting about her behavior.

We are an independant pharmacy owned by an non pharmacist so I doubt she will get fired for her bullsh*t.  But I get so tired of it.  The PIC is tired of it but he is a non confrontationalist who needs to grow a back bone!  Any suggestions?

An update

So my manager had a talk with one of my coworkers about her inaproprate behavior and she said ok and she was sorry.  Within the hour she became hostile towards me.  He witnessed this and asked me about it later.  I wasn't even going to bring it up because I am use to her attitude at this point.  He was pretty dumb founded that she would blatantly disregard his authority.  We are owned by a non-pharmacist, so he is trying to find a way to resolve the conflict.  Both the owner and the manager are laid back, passive people so this has been a challenge.  I don't even think my manager has been able to talk to the owner about the issues yet. 

It is frustrating to me because these two other techs are idiots.  I am not even being a petty jerk when I say this.  These are two 30-something small town women who still have high school mentalities.  They think they are big fish.  The thing about big fish in a small pond is when you take that same fish and put them in a big pond and they don't look quite so big anymore.  Thats my view.  I grew up in a huge city.  My views and experiences are vast in comparison.  I am good at what I do.  I am efficient and well trained.  I am educated.  I come to work, do my job and go home.  Where ever I am needed, I will pitch in. 

Subsequently, my store owner has taken note of my hard work and dedication.  She has tasked me with other projects and jobs.  And there is an undercurrent of jealously.  I can certainly understand that.  I am not rubbing anything in any ones faces or trying to make anyone feel bad.  I often work one-on-one with her on projects not necessarily related to the pharmacy.  What am I supposed to do?  She signs my check! 

Jealousy is a green eyed monster.  It turns perfectly normal people into horriable humans who bully, gossip and hate for no reason.

Crummy

Things have gotten really crummy at work, I cant even discuss it with out breaking out in tear of frustration.  But I am still reading my favorite blogs and hopefully things look up soon.

Pharmacy appropriate behavior

Ok: Waiting for someting to print, then setting it a side if it is not for you.
Not OK: Snatching something out of a coworkers hands.

So a fellow bitch tech was printing some rx's from our queue to fill this morning and then pulling them off the printer to count (no biggie, I didn't want to fill them) but I did print something and when I went to reach for it she grabbed it out of my hand.  After which, she had to eat crow and had it back to me.  By then I was furious.  I couldn't even trust myself to speak so I grabbed my item and walked away before it got ugly.

I know its going to come to a head soon, and she isn't going to like the outcome.