Bye bye PepsiCo

I just got rid of Pepsico as distributor for the pharmacie last week.  They suddenly decided to not credit me for my returns.  When taking that into consideration I would be selling pepsi products at a loss.  No thanks!!

So they're coming to get their refrigerator back.  I bought on at Costco and will be filling it up with products from there, all the while controlling my inventory and getting virtually no losses.

Bye bye Pepsico!!!

Employee Problems 2

Well,
I managed to defuse the bomb for now.  Don't know how long it'll last though since the employee in question is not liked by the others and seems to not have much common sense.  She's been through a lot in her life which could account for her view on life, but I'm not a psychiatrist and don't want to be.  We'll see how it all plays out...

Elections again???

Wow!  These elections in Quebec are a joke!  Fifth elections in ten years.  Are we really supposed to take this seriously when we vote every two years?

Once again there's lots riding on the elections but you have to get kinda tired of 'em.

For pharmacist, we've got the CAQ who in the last elections wanted to cut the honorarium paid by the RAMQ, but now this time around decides they're not going to touch them.  Then we've got the PQ who wants to rip Quebec out of Canada and won't give the Loi 41, which gives us pharmacists broader responsibilities, the go ahead.  Now the PLQ seem to not exactly know what the hell they want to do about anything.  All they seem to be talking about is what the other parties are doing wrong.  Ok, I agree that the other parties are doing tons of stuff wrong, especially the PQ which when they start something they end up scrapping it and changing their minds.  And now talk of another referendum?

Come on!  Referendums costs millions and the economy is worst off since the PQ is in power, not that is was all that good with the PLQ but at least we were in line with the rest of the country.  Now we're running last in growth when compared to all the other big provinces.

Anyway, to come back to the part that interests me most...  Pharmacists and the Loi 41.  The big thing around this is the PQ bitches that its gonna cost millions to finance all the new actions the pharmacists are going to be able to do.  Oooh!  The evil pharmacists are trying to get more money!  What they're not saying is that whatever they'll be paying us, it would cost at least double if it's done by a doctor!!!!  So they'll actually be saving money.  They just trying to get public support by divulging half the story.  That's politicians for ya!

Well, that was my beef for today!

Employee Problems

Well, I guess I am writing here again.  It feels good to get stuff off my chest anonymously.  Stuff that I can't really share with anybody around me.

I've been off for three days now and I already got a problem with one of my employees.  She decided to bad mouth some of her coworkers on facebook.  Not the best of ideas since everybody's wired there.  So now when I go back to work on monday the atmosphere is going to suck.  I'm gonna have to talk to everybody involved and take disciplinary measures.  What was she thinking?

Anyway, monday is gonna suck.  Not always fun being the boss!

First Entry

Well, this shall be my first entry.  God knows if I'll be writing again.

Last week, I ordered some urinary catheter leg bags for one of my patients.  My patient had none left and was using the same one for a few days now.  So the next day, the day I was suppose to receive the aforesaid bags, I get a note saying they're back ordered.  There's that magic word in the life of a pharmacist ''Back Ordered''...  Anywho, I call the company and ask when I can get the bags since my patient is starting to get tired of the stench of the old bag on his leg.  The company answers, and I quote, ''Let me check our inventory.  Hmmm...  That's odd.  We actually have 30 bags in stock.  Let me put you on hold while I try to figure out what happened.''  So I wait a while and think about my patient and how I'm gonna have to tell him to start taking Gravol soon if he starts to get too nauseated by the reek.  Then click,  ''It looks like we couldn't send you the item because you're in Quebec and the labels on the products we have in stock are not bilingual, but just in english.''  So I think, What the hell???

Now don't get me wrong.  I'm french and I do think we should help protect our language but come on.   Quebec's stupid laws shouldn't compromise patient care!!!  There's something seriously wrong with protecting a language instead of the health of the person actually speaking the language.  And like my patient told me when I told him why I couldn't get the bags right away,  ''I don't care about the language on the f******* box, my leg can't read anyway.''

So two days later I got the product after telling the company to send it anyway and that I would personally deal with Pauline Marois if she decided to file a complaint against me.  And by dealing with, I mean a swift kick in the....