Work: All fax, no printer

All fax, no printer

By pharmn00b - 08/07/2009 17:52 - United States

Today, at work, I was calling customers to tell them that they had prescriptions waiting to be picked up. It was a long list and every time I reached an answering machine I left our number so they could call us back. When I was finished, the pharmacist told me I been giving out our fax number. FML

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By anonymous - 14/11/2020 06:57 - United States - Irving

Today, where I work at a pharmacy, we were short staffed and running 4 hours behind. A lady came to drop off a new prescription. When I explained to her the wait time, she called the patient. I heard, "No, they don't look busy." Like, really? FML

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By Ugggghhh - 29/05/2018 20:41

Today, I was that person in the pharmacy that held the line up for 25 minutes. When I got home, I realized I left my prescriptions in the shopping cart in the store's parking lot. FML

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By Anonymous - 19/04/2013 10:17 - Germany - Berlin

Today, it's my only day off work in a while. I told my boss I'd be available via phone in case of emergencies. So far I've been called three times: To ask how the fax works, to let me know it's a slow day, and to ask me where the letter R is on a keyboard. FML

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By Luke - 23/06/2015 22:37 - United States - San Antonio

Today, after all of the business cards for the car dealership that I work for were printed, the phone number was wrong, and the lady got so pissed about getting so many calls that she told them that they had won a free car. I had to tell dozens of ecstatic customers that they hadn't. FML

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The '80s called

By Anonymous - 20/03/2021 13:59

Today, I received three phone calls and three long and rather monotonous messages on my answering machine. Literally monotonous. As in, repeating the same tone over and over. The caller was a fax machine. FML

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By ring-a-ding-ding - 06/12/2014 05:18 - United States - Sparks

Today, at work, due to a mix up, I had to call an answering service. I am also from an answering service. We got the problem fixed but I couldn't hang up due to company policy. She couldn't hang up either. We both had to get our supervisors for permission to hang up. FML

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Ain't nobody got time for that

By Rawf - 18/07/2009 05:45 - United States

Today, at work, a customer called in and asked me to read off every item on our menu, along with their ingredients. I work at Jamba Juice so that's a lot of reading. After about 10 minutes of this, I found out it was actually my stupid co-worker calling from the back phone. FML

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Customer service

By retailworker - 09/01/2020 14:00

Today, at work, I was helping a customer over the phone. Another customer came and asked me a question. I let them know I'd be with them shortly. They then said "I really think you should hang up. The customer is always first." FML

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By OverWorked1 - 20/01/2011 03:59 - United States

Today, I was talking to a co-worker about birth control. Ten minutes later, I went to my sent e-mails to copy and reuse an old e-mail and realized I had sent "I tried calling you but your birth control is not working" to a student. It was supposed to say "voicemail". FML

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By thankyouforcalling - 01/06/2015 22:46 - United States - Bremerton

Today, the phone lines at work have been cutting out in the middle of calls. I'm a receptionist at an animal hospital. I now have less than two minutes to figure out what's wrong with a client's pet and how best to schedule them before I become "That rude bitch who hung up on me." FML

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shewasalmost18 0

Wednesday 8 July 2009 23:06

shit, so you're the reason i can't control my bowels. you bastard, i called 5 times.

montgomery634 0

Wednesday 8 July 2009 22:49

i would totally do something like that!!

Comments

Brittani090270 1

Thursday 9 July 2009 6:01

I work in a pharmacy, and when we send manual faxes we have to stamp the paper and write our fax number. For the first month I worked there, I didn't know I had to do that, and I sent a lot of faxes that we never got answered because nurses didn't know who sent it. Haha. & I would hate to have to do that. Most of our numbers would probably be wrong anyway. =)

thatonekid2010 0

Thursday 9 July 2009 8:07

YDI for working.

thisremedy 2

Thursday 9 July 2009 10:23

Working in a pharmacy myself, I think you deserve it because you outta know the number of the pharmacy you work. I'm surprised you don't have a automated call thing like cNotify or Telefill...

Ravemaster7 0

Thursday 9 July 2009 14:57

Most fax machines have an auxiliary phone connected to the same line. It's not a big deal. You probably work at somewhere where all of the customers know the damn place's number by heart anyway.

Dagny 6

Friday 10 July 2009 7:20

Wow...I feel bad for you. The pharmacist really should have said something sooner. Did you have to redo the whole list? Or had you kept track of which numbers went to the answering machine?