I work in a pharmacy where the prescriptions are printed with the time the customer expects to pick it up (or when the computer expects us to have a new prescription from the md ready... sure we can fill, dispense, and check all 50 prescriptions sent in during the office's lunch break within the hour). I was working with a pharmacist once who would refuse to check any prescription other than those marked as "waiter" or with a printed time outside 60 minutes after the current time. No past-dues, nothing for later in the day. They would hand all the past due ones to the secondary checking pharmacist, and if there wasn't anything due in the next hour, would pop a squat on a stool. If anyone came in early, they made us redo the prescription and change the time to a more current one. Meanwhile, we still had about 150 prescriptions in the queues we were furiously working to fill.
They worked an overnight with me one night, and when all of the automatic filling prescriptions dropped, I was working my butt off to print and fill and stack prescriptions to check. The prescriptions print with a due date of midnight the next day, and when I left, they were all still on the counter. I didn't work the next two nights, and when I worked during the day, all of the automatic fills had been left there both nights. All ~200 of them. To fill along with the ~800 we do during the day.
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