Trogie said:
I was wondering how you got into this job? I always see ads in the paper for pharmacy assistants but they always want people with experience.
Also, what does the job involve? is it just serving customers?
What's the pay per hour?
thanks
I work at an amcal chemist as well, maybe this can help a bit:
I started at 15 getting $6.15 an hour. Now I'm 16 and get $8.62. Don't go in it for the money.
Mine involved at least half mudane shit - vacuuming, doing the mail, getting stuff from woolies, emptying the bins and so on - and the rest was pricing things, doing invoices, serving customers and working on the scripts counter.
I just walked around the shopping center with a bunch of resumes and got lucky. It was only a casual after school position, so nothing was advertised in the paper. The problem is I never got any formal training and most pharmacies are really good about that. Some stupid examples:
- me letting a customer go after her credit card receipt came up declined
- not knowing what vaginal thermometers are called or something like that (pretty embarrassing) and asking the customer what it was for
- when customers asked me "Where's the coloxyl?" I'd ask them "What is it for?" to know the section where to look.
I think not knowing anything is what makes me uncomfortable serving customers, and not enjoying it. If I had some training, it wouldn't be a bad environment to work in.
Looking back, my pharmacy went about it all pretty shit. I didn't even get a badge for 6 months. Now I've cut my weekly hours back from 10 to 3 (yeah, I have no idea why they keep me on either) and I know bugger all. I prefer not to serve customers and stay out of sight pricing things and doing invoices. I don't want to quit yet though: some of the people (customers and employeers) are well nice, and I like saying I have 2 jobs. Pathetic, aye?
I realise that was more than you asked for, but let me rant...
I also work at Oporto, which is more fun.