Thread: Nosey (Chemist) shop assistants.

I attend a chemist every fortnight to fill a standing script and purchase a pack of 24 Panadeine extra. These contain 15mg of Codeine and 300mg of Paracetamol. These are used for the treatment of chronic pain from at some time or another I have broken just about every bone in my body. Including my skull, neck and lumbar vertebrae. I have available from my GP a script for Endone an S8 pain killer for the days that the Panadeine don't cut it. When I do fill the script for Endone I get it no problems, no questions asked.....However, The Panadeine is a different matter. The same girl asks the same questions every time. So after this episode on one occasion I dropped my work pants in the shop and pointed out the many scars on my legs and feet from the many orthopaedic surgeries. The girl was dumbstruck and the pharmacist applauded and laughed. I don't get asked anymore. A good result. I believe i do well coping most days with panadeine.
Cheers
Rob

Originally Posted by Boxhead63

I attend a chemist every fortnight to fill a standing script and purchase a pack of 24 Panadeine extra. These contain 15mg of Codeine and 300mg of Paracetamol. These are used for the treatment of chronic pain from at some time or another I have broken just about every bone in my body. Including my skull, neck and lumbar vertebrae. I have available from my GP a script for Endone an S8 pain killer for the days that the Panadeine don't cut it. When I do fill the script for Endone I get it no problems, no questions asked.....However, The Panadeine is a different matter. The same girl asks the same questions every time. So after this episode on one occasion I dropped my work pants in the shop and pointed out the many scars on my legs and feet from the many orthopaedic surgeries. The girl was dumbstruck and the pharmacist applauded and laughed. I don't get asked anymore. A good result. I believe i do well coping most days with panadeine.
Cheers

Rob

do you partake in that down hill billy cart race on that big hill up your way

Originally Posted by Boxhead63

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Maybe that is because of the way some laws and regulations are interpreted by courts.

That doesn't sound any sillier than an incident a few years back in a NSW school.

A student trimmed a little bit off the end of his finger with a sheet metal guillotine. He managed to do it in spite of all the safety features built into the equipment. Apparently he had stuffed up his project and tried to ensure that others also had problems with theirs. So when a female student was about to trim her sheet metal, he reached around the back of the guillotine to shove the sheet of metal out of place and lost the tip of his finger.

The court decided that the Department of Education was liable. The teacher was not liable because he had followed Department of Education policy. He had issued all the instructions and the printed sheets covering safety in the Industrial Arts classroom as part of the first lesson.

However the court decided that the Department of Education policy of covering the issue of safety at the start of term was inadequate. In the opinion of the court, the Department of Education should require teachers to cover the safety rules every lesson.

With courts making decisions like that, I would not be surprised if the chemist had instructed staff to follow the letter of the law and ask the same questions every time.

And no wonder the kiddies don't learn anything. A 45min lesson has 30min of safety briefings. Just like my diving days, a 2 hour meeting at the start of every day followed by a 1 hour debrief at the end.

If the pollies got their way the only place to purchase anything stronger than a sugar pill would be Fyshwick. Pron, fireworks and drugs

Originally Posted by clubagreenie

And no wonder the kiddies don't learn anything. A 45min lesson has 30min of safety briefings. Just like my diving days, a 2 hour meeting at the start of every day followed by a 1 hour debrief at the end.

Yep, If I follow the WHS whackers policy to the letter I can tie up about 10 hours a day in RA's and briefings. And thats just Getting the tool boxes open and closed.

By the letter of the law if you leave a work area and the lighting has changed you need to redo the RA... The sun changing position in the sky, believe it or not, counts as lighting changes.