papalonian
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- Comment on Please, my son... He's sick... 1 day ago:
That’s what I thought when I took the picture months ago. I just saw it in my phone again and decided to post it, glad it’s making some people laugh
- Comment on Please, my son... He's sick... 1 day ago:
Never understood this. It seems like more of an insurance risk for a company to say, “no no, we provide our own certificate training here”. Now when someone fucks up they can say “I was operating the lift following Wal-Mart’s training protocols” and they have to show their shit is proper rather than just pointing the finger at OSHA or whoever.
- Comment on Please, my son... He's sick... 1 day ago:
Funnily enough, the jack was on the lift because we needed to unload a 16 wheeler with crates in the back.
- Comment on Why would anyone do this? 1 day ago:
Facebook was originally literally just a database of pictures of people from the school Zuck went to and a bunch of people deciding if they were, in fact, hot or not.
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- Comment on Learning the origin of a phrase 3 days ago:
I’m so angry after seeing this post (which is OBVIOUSLY full of FALSE information 😠) that I’m gonna look up sources and cite them in the shit posting community so everyone knows I’m smarter than them and totally understand what’s happening
- Comment on I'm not gonna be part of your system 4 days ago:
“threw it on the ground” - Lonely Island
- Comment on I'm not gonna be part of your system 4 days ago:
You can’t buy me, HOT DOG MAN
- Comment on Grinch 4 days ago:
Humans of different races can look pretty different from one another and only a problematic few would have trouble thinking we’re the same species.
Starting to sound like a Who Supremacist to me /s
- Comment on Grinch 4 days ago:
I don’t see any reference to two distinct species in that page…
- Comment on I'm not gonna be part of your system 4 days ago:
I came here to make the exact same reference, afraid it would be too far a stretch for anyone to make the connection.
- Comment on Solid Plan 🧓 1 week ago:
In Germany we have organic waste bins.
Sounds like some liberal commie alarmist woke propaganda to me. Here in God’s country, we put our organic waste directly into the coal plants 🇺🇸🦅
- Comment on My friends are by my side 1 week ago:
All these comments about eye floaters and I’m wondering who has floaters in the form of sacred geometry
- Comment on My friends are by my side 1 week ago:
once you know there their
You’re mocking us, aren’t you
- Comment on Troll physics 2 weeks ago:
You’re supposed to put a third forklift (using a fourth forklift) on top of the first two
- Comment on Pros and cons 2 weeks ago:
My job involves a lot of travel.
Guy that got hired on with me with, largely because he missed his family so much when he was out of town.
Guy that replaced him non-stop complains about his wife and kid, always wants to work OT and out of town to get away from them.
Guess that’s what the company is after.
- Comment on yummy 2 weeks ago:
I was there.
I was there for okbuddychicanery.
- Comment on I can still smell them 3 weeks ago:
Used to get em at the dollar store, early 2000s
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 3 weeks ago:
Don’t give any customer your “trash pile”. Either take the time to do it right, or throw away the trashpile, or accept that customers feels like people are saying they feel.
… You have to give someone the trash pile. Technicians are not going to throw away thousands of dollars of pills a month because the packaging is “MILDLY” frustrating. Your comment reads like a preachy teenager who has all the answers to every problem.
I don’t know why you’re trying to tell me how to do my job when a. you’ve very clearly never done anything remotely adjacent to it and b. Ive said that I don’t even do that job anymore.
In order to remedy this “MILDLY” frustrating problem that happens every so often, the entire distribution network of drugs in the US would need to be reworked from the ground up to start dispensing per-patient packages. Which, if you think that’s the most pressing problem the US medical industry needs to fix… One, I’ve got a bridge to sell you, and two, don’t make up excuses, do it right, get it changed, become a technician and start throwing away pills and refusing to fill people’s scripts with loose blister packs… Be the change you want to see and all that.
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 3 weeks ago:
What do you do with expired meds, does the pharmacy eat the loss?
It depends. In the US we have “prescription only” medication (things like antibiotics, diabetes meds, etc) as well as “controlled” medication (things like Norco, Xanax, morphine). With my former employer, we would go through the pharmacy and find non-controlled medication that was due to expire soon (3 or 6 months, I don’t remember) and send them back to our wholesaler for a partial credit. Packages had to be whole and unopened. With controlled medication, there is no sending back; the pharmacy holds the medication until it is actually expired, then sends it to be disposed of.
Do you mix and match pills with different expiration dates to fill a prescription? From different manufacturers?
Different expiration dates, yes, different manufacturers, generally no but if there’s no better option we would. In the US we generally fill from stock bottles containing several hundred or thousand pills, so one bottle can last a few months worth of prescriptions. When we go from one bottle to the next, the expiration dates between the two generally won’t be the same. When I left the company, we had a system that scanned the bottle we used and could read the expiration date; if the med expired in over a year, the label printed would just have an expiration date of 1 year from the current date. If it expired in less than 1 year, it would give a notification, and we’d manually enter the exact expiration date on the label.
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 3 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, I can’t continue this conversation. It’s clear that you’re just kind of saying things that sound right. Your only argument is, “the pills themselves cost nothing to make” while ignoring everything that makes the pill cost money. Economics and cost analysis does not work that way. And in 7 years of working in a pharmacy, never once have we ever sent incomplete strips of meds to the manufacturer to get a complete pack. That is just not a thing that happens anywhere on a regular enough basis for it to be taken into consideration.
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 3 weeks ago:
Yes, a sterile lab is expensive, but like normal business expensive. It’s very achievable to build, drug cartels manage it just fine.
This bit right here told me that I didn’t need to take this too seriously. An actual medical lab is not comparable to cocaine plants in the Congo.
But the pills themselves? The materials and production cost is cents. They themselves cost basically nothing
This is the exact same point from the previous comment. You cannot just look at the material cost of something and say, “see? It only costs cents to make.” Go buy a part that goes in a car engine - it’s just a few cents worth of metal! But, you can’t just take a hunk of metal and magically form it into car parts, there’s a manufacturing process and it’s expensive. That’s part of where the cost comes from. It doesn’t matter if you can make the most expensive pill in the world out of 10 cents of flour if you need a $10 million dollar assembly line to process it and turn it in to what is useful. They aren’t just taking a premade substance and pressing it into pills, there’s numerous chemical reactions and processes taking place.
That’s why other countries can afford to sell them for cents - they really are that cheap to make
You start your comment off with saying that R&D is subsidized, and end with saying “other places can sell them for cheap cuz they really are that cheap.” In these other countries, the drug company is not selling the medication directly to the public for pennies, it’s getting subsidized by the government to make it affordable for citizens. Granted the government is not paying US cash prices, but companies simply are not selling direct to consumers for 10x less than other places.
Look, this is coming from someone who fucking hates the predatory medical industry, especially that of the US. I used to work as a very small cog in it. There are absolutely places where prices are disgustingly manipulated and people are taken complete advantage of. Things exist today the way they are because of corporate greed and the continuance of putting profit over people. We can accept all of this as true, and still recognize that producing drugs at a medical grade, with medical levels of consistency and purity, is a difficult, expensive task that requires resources to accomplish. Medication needs to be cheaper (it’s my belief that it should be no direct cost to the user), but momentum is instantly removed from the cause when we use arguments based on a limited grasp of reality.
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 3 weeks ago:
The expensive part is all markup
So we can waste the pills if we find a way to keep all the markup safe?
Also the idea that pills costs “cents to make” is pretty flawed. Even if you ignore all of the R&D money that goes in to making newer pills, the sterilized environment they need to be manufactured in is gonna jack the cost up too.
It’s like saying a cup of fresh, ice cold water that you’re getting handed to you in the middle of the desert is only “a few cents worth of water”. Yeah, but the fact that it exists in the middle of the desert for you to consume is what made it a “precious resource”.
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 3 weeks ago:
Never been to US though.
Things are done very, very differently here than most places. Blister packs are pretty uncommon, as are “per-patient” packages.
We rarely get bottles of 14, 30, 90 or whatever to give to the patient. It’s usually a giant “stock bottle” of like, 100, 500, 1000 pills that get counted out according to the prescription.
Your example of using the leftover from one script to the next works if you’re a single person in a small-ish pharmacy and it’s an uncommon drug, but when you’re one of 4 techs in a shitty retail pharmacy, you’re not going to ask every other person if they have a 2x2 strip of this med in their pile of go-backs, or spend time min-maxing the most efficient way to get the most pills in the least amount of strips. You’re gonna fill the thing as quickly as possible, because the medicine is what’s important, and you’re not gonna hold the backlog of prescriptions up because someone wants the nice complete pack of 10 and not the leftovers that are bound to pile up.
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 3 weeks ago:
Uh, former pharmacy tech here… I don’t know what you want us to do. If I have a strip of, say, 10 pills, 2 rows of 5, and I get a prescription for 6 pills, that means I’m gonna have a strip of 4 pills left over. If I get a prescription for 9 pills, there’s gonna be a single one left over. Do you want these pills to just be thrown away? If they don’t have enough pills on hand to make your prescription with the full sheet, would you rather they delay your prescription so they can order some nicer looking ones?
I get that it can be frustrating dealing with those blister packs, but freaking out at the pharmacist/ tech that a. did not put the pills in a blister pack and b. doesn’t have any option but to dispense medication on hand, seems pretty misplaced. Like, I wouldn’t think something was wrong with the Walmart cashier for selling me a pair of scissors in security packaging.
- Comment on handling strays 4 weeks ago:
I went on a canyon drive one time. We started with 7 cars, when we got to the end of our route, we had 8. Hopped right out of his car and stood around in the circle with the rest of us, didn’t even register for a second that it was just some random guy. He thought it looked fun so he kept up with us. Cool dude.
- Comment on The season of giving 5 weeks ago:
Full disclosure, am also on the spectrum so I may have got some things wrong here, but I think I can explain.
People think it’s funny when other people look like other things, and get frustrated when they themselves look like other things. I think this stems from the fact that once the comparison is made, it is hard to take the person seriously without thinking of the other thing.
Weird analogy that just came to mind: imagine you book a tour to some World War II museum. You get there, and your groups tour guide is dressed as spongebob, or Spider-Man or something. They’re an excellent tour guide, and know their shit, but you’d have to be thinking to yourself, “why is Spider-Man telling me about some of the worst crimes against humanity?”, and that thought would be kinda funny.
Now imagine your 20-something year old daughter is bantering with you and teasing you about your old man/ lady style. In the middle of the conversation, you see an ad for Encanto on the TV, and realize that your daughter looks exactly like the cartoonish and silly (not “stupid” silly that’s just how I describe the style) character in the movie. And you say, “why am I getting roasted by Mirabel?”, that’d be pretty funny.
“Roasting” and “sick burns” are one of those “insulting each other as friends” things NTs are more skilled at doing and understanding than we typically are. It can of course go too far or be taken the wrong way but I don’t think the person in the OP felt genuinely wronged or that the joke was mean spirited.
I hope I could help! Let me know if you’re still questioning it, and maybe I can try to clarify
- Comment on why we need billionaires 5 weeks ago:
pitcher
- Comment on The build-up of circling what you wanted in the little paper catalogs. Hnnng. 5 weeks ago:
Why don’t you take a seat.
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 5 weeks ago:
Maybe your cat is dumb, rips a chunk out, decides to eat it, cat could get sick or catch fire or something
