Arbitrary list of 35 things that annoy me

[ItsOverZyvox]

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There are about 5 hospitals within a short drive all of which need people bad. Including WVU, which has one hell of a nice institution. I don't think they'd care...they'd move...

Oh yeah? Then it would be a good thing... Make sure you train the replacement well!

 

[WVUPharm2007]

Oh yeah? Then it would be a good thing... Make sure you train the replacement well!

What replacement? Their replacement is air. Does that mean that the new nephrologist will be a random collection of nitrogen molecules?

 

[PharmDstudent]

WVU, you are the most wishy-washy person on this forum. With enough time, you'll love what you hate right now and then hate what you love.

It's not really a problem, though. It's just an observation.

I admire people who can see things from different perspectives and don't justify their decisions because that's all they've ever known and the situation couldn't possibly be any different the next time around.


I have an appointment in the morning. Trying the hospital thing again as a second side item. We'll see how it goes...
I'm trying to get back to my roots within the pharmacy arena. Maybe I'll find what I'm looking for this time??? It can't hurt to try again. No residencies though!
I might be a little wishy-washy myself and switch back to being interested in hospital management stuff. I really like economics. I was working on a second major in Economics before getting pulled off the waiting list for pharmacy school. This had better be a better hospital experience if it all pans out. If it isn't, I doubt I'll try again.



Gotta go to sleep. I have to get at least a nap before tomorrow. 😴

 

[Requiem]

WVU, you are the most wishy-washy person on this forum. With enough time, you'll love what you hate right now and then hate what you love.

I'm trying to get back to my roots within the pharmacy arena. Maybe I'll find what I'm looking for this time??? It can't hurt to try again. No residencies though!

Right. Mrs. I love every negative thing about retail pharmacy and it makes it so good 😎

It's great to look around and find what's right for you. Not so great to start threads on "retail vs clinical"

 

[PharmDstudent]

Right. Mrs. I love every negative thing about retail pharmacy and it makes it so good 😎

It's great to look around and find what's right for you. Not so great to start threads on "retail vs clinical"

I like certain things about retail because they fit my lifestyle. I am miserable right now. I had to wake up at 6:20! That's way too freakin early. A nine-five job would almost kill me; I'm an insomniac and a night owl.
I also like talking to patients about their medications. So sue me if a retail pharmacy student might actually like counseling patients instead of being locked in a pharmacy dungeon arguing with a nurse.

I started a thread about whinny clinical pharmacist wannabes who work retail and make my day miserable whenever they complain about their retail job. No one is forcing them to work retail! You clinical people don't address the shortcomings of the job, so my guess is that the lack of clinical jobs nationwide makes a good bit of pharmacists miserable whenever they have to "settle" in retail.
Residencies are bull! Just because MD's have to go through, it doesn't mean that they're worth the time, energy, and lack of pay that characterizes them.

Your exaggeration is hilarious! Y'all are the ones who turned yet another thread into a retail vs clinical flamewar.

 

[rxlynn]

Hmmm... I don't like meet someone and say "Hey, I'm Dustin PharmD Candidate c/o 2012" but I mean it IS on my school-issued name tag and I do use it on my emails. Whats wrong with that? Didn't your school call you a PharmD candidate? I consider it a great accomplishment to be here and hell yeah I'm going to acknowledge it when given the opportunity. 🙄

No they don't - our name tags say Doctor of Pharmacy student.

 

[bananaface]

excellent list. complete agreement with #1 and #7.

but, what's a honeydipper?


oh, and i DETEST ( with the white hot passion of a supernova ) hyphenated names. if you like your name, don't change it. if you want your spouse's change it. none of this *****wise have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too nonsense.

What I hate more is people who don't hyphenate and can't choose what last name(s) they are going to use. "Oh, it's Watson. Oh, maybe it's under Smith-Watson." Then you find their **** under "Smith". 😡

 

[codeman2012]

No they don't - our name tags say Doctor of Pharmacy student.

Mine says Doctor of Pharmacy Candidate also. 😱😱😱😱🙄

 

[WVUPharm2007]

1) Pitt. They make me enjoy the concept of getting AIDS.
1) Vegetables. They taste like ass.
2) Copyright Laws. I want to see, read, and listen to everything for free and it no longer be considered theft.
3) Objectivists.
4) Matthew Lesko.
5) Trying to get bacitracin into solution.
6) The weird ass drugs dermatologists order that I've never heard of before in my freaking life. We have 37 steroid creams in stock. You don't need Xermoroid at $300 a tube or whatever the hell its called.
7) Linoleum.
8) Insomnia. It makes me type of lists of things I hate.
9) The lack of acceptance of cargo pants as "professional" clothing. khakis are fine...but khakis with a few extra pockets, not fine. God dammit, it is the standard with added features. It should be considered more professional. I could hypothetically fit references in there or something.
10) The fact that lab coats are white. One Coke Zero spillage and its done.
11) How Spaghetti O's taste worse and worse the older you get.
12) That I can't buy Oreo Os anymore.
13) Pitt. Actually, I'm going back up and making this the 1st #1 in front of the actual #1. Ha, you thought I made an error up there, didn't you! Haha.
14) Rich Rodriguez.
15) The Cuban Embargo
16) Going to the dentist.
17) Waking up before noon.
18) That robot dancing isn't in style.
19) People that drink Pabst.
20) People that didn't like Inglorious Basterds.
21) What Facebook has become.
22) Wind Chimes.
23) Converse. They used to be cool...god damn hipster sellouts...
24) Drug reps that don't bring me food.
25) Comic Books

 

[njac]

I hate you. You are up late and I am up oh so very early for the 2nd day in a row.

Tomorrow I get to sleep in until 7!

 

[WVUPharm2007]

Quadruple post?

 

[njac]

Blackberry bowing down to your palm thinger I guess.

 

[njac]

I'm just having issues with sdn this morning. Tried to get on the computer to fix it but the thread wouldn't load.

 

[medicalCPA]

Nothing that mod-ly powers cannot fix...😛

 

[KARM12]

I just hired an ID pharmacist at $115K.

Hospital base salary is very misleading. There are evening, night, and weekend differentials and on call pays.

When are you hiring me?

 

[MountainPharmD]

WVU, you are the most wishy-washy person on this forum. With enough time, you'll love what you hate right now and then hate what you love.

It's not really a problem, though. It's just an observation.

As true today as it was a year ago.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

As true today as it was a year ago.

And yet I still agree with the original list. Guess who's wrong? YOU, you giant ****ing failure of a human.

 

[MountainPharmD]

And yet I still agree with the original list. Guess who's wrong? YOU, you giant ****ing failure of a human.

NO...you have changed your mind 49 times since then and just happen to be back where you started. Give it 5 minutes and you will have changed again. You would be the giant ****ing failure of a human. Come on you are from West Virgina, what more is there to say?

 

[Praziquantel86]

5) Trying to get bacitracin into solution.
18) That robot dancing isn't in style.
19) People that drink Pabst.

5: How often do you have to use bacitracin?

18: Couldn't agree with you more. That and the twist should have never gone away.

19: Pabst is cheap as hell and it tastes pretty decent. It's definitely a better option than Keystone or Busch.

 

[Glycerin]

1) Vegetables. They taste like ass.

Maybe try eating them fresh and not out of a can or cooked to death next time.

11) How Spaghetti O's taste worse and worse the older you get.

You're out of college now and have my permission to stop eating those. I mean, really, adults actually eat that ****?

 

[WVUPharm2007]

Come on you are from West Virgina, what more is there to say?

Exactly. That's why I'm usually right. Thanks for overcoming your stubbornness and agreeing with me finally.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

5: How often do you have to use bacitracin?

Every day.

19: Pabst is cheap as hell and it tastes pretty decent. It's definitely a better option than Keystone or Busch.

It may be. I don't know, I don't drink. This is just an observation of those that drink the stuff. They tend to be people that drive Scions and own Macs.

 

[Praziquantel86]

Every day.

Interesting. I don't think my place has used it once in the year and a half I've been working there. Are you using it IM or for oral use?

It may be. I don't know, I don't drink. This is just an observation of those that drink the stuff. They tend to be people that drive Scions and own Macs.

Fair enough, I'll agree with you on that.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

Interesting. I don't think my place has used it once in the year and a half I've been working there. Are you using it IM or for oral use?

Irrigations for ortho surgery. And we do a ton of those here...

 

[museabuse]

1) Vegetables. They taste like ass.
18) That robot dancing isn't in style.
23) Converse. They used to be cool...god damn hipster sellouts...

1) How do you know what ass tastes like, oh I forgot your from Deliverence country, you kinky mofo.

18) I don't care I can't stop doing it!

23) Hipster??? WTF is that? Are we in the 1950s or 60s or are you watching too much Mad Men?

 

[medicalCPA]

1) How do you know what ass tastes like, oh I forgot your from Deliverence country, you kinky mofo.

I just almost fell out of my chair.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

1) How do you know what ass tastes like, oh I forgot your from Deliverence country, you kinky mofo.

That's right. What I do on the weekends is my business, dammit.

23) Hipster??? WTF is that? Are we in the 1950s or 60s or are you watching too much Mad Men?

Hipster as a "cultural movement" has been redefined for the last decade. Ask people in Brooklyn or Austin, TX about it. They are the reason why Chuck Taylors are profitable. And why Apple Computers can still sell things to stupid people. They somehow made irony less cool. It's where Kanye got his glasses. And I'm pretty sure they all like Pabst for some reason.

But this whole neo-hipster thing is just disconcerting. The average kid from my generation...we really can't come up with our own style. We just steal from other generations...and I wish it would stop...and I have to throw my disdain for the situation on the people mostly responsible for it, I 'spose...

 

[ttopping]

Interesting. I don't think my place has used it once in the year and a half I've been working there. Are you using it IM or for oral use?

We also use it nearly every day for irrigation. The techs usually make it though so I never deal with it

 

[charfdorn]

You know what makes my arbitrary list? People who say "random" when they mean "arbitrary." Hats off to you, Mikey. Hats off whilst pointing to them.

 

[museabuse]

Hipster as a "cultural movement" has been redefined for the last decade. Ask people in Brooklyn or Austin, TX about it. They are the reason why Chuck Taylors are profitable. And why Apple Computers can still sell things to stupid people. They somehow made irony less cool. It's where Kanye got his glasses. And I'm pretty sure they all like Pabst for some reason.
..

If I had to google chuck taylors to find out what your talking about, what does that make me, an anti-hipster?
Maybe it's cause I'm generation x...

 

[confettiflyer]

i've always wondered how may iterations of "pharmd to be" as a screenname there are on SDN

 

[CynicalIntern]

It's typically and traditionally only used for 4th year (or 6th year in 0-6 schools or 3rd year in 3-year schools) pharmacy students on rotations, since they are almost finished and are a candidate for the degree.

I agree with WVU. I didn't start using that title until this past spring.

I also had no idea of this. I just remember the first email I got as a student was signed that way, so I figured it was how I was supposed to sign mine. (Yes, I'm a sheep.) Now that I know I'm making a ***** of myself, I'll stop.

 

[ffpickle]

What's wrong with #5??

 

[Passion4Sci]

#36 - People who put stickers on their car saying "Future Pharm.D"

 

[BustyPharmD]

OK - I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates this. And, really - what are these kids going to do when they grow up and little Jose Martinez-Gonzalez falls in love with Ashley Smith-Green??? But, the kids presumably had no choice in the matter, at least initially. What drives me to distraction (as another poster also mentioned) is women who come to the pharmacy and seem to have no idea which last name they are using this week. I guess it does sort of explain why they can't take medicine correctly though - if you can't even keep your name straight, then medication is probably several levels above the available intellect.

oh i so agree with this one

 

[spacecowgirl]

I know of plenty of hospital jobs that pay close to or more than 100K/year, but let's just throw out a lower salary just for the hell of it. Say you make 80K/year. If you can't pay off your loans even making that, you've got some issues.

I make $1.05/hr less in my hospital job than when I moonlight in retail. I make $3less/hr than in my agency temp job (apprently I like to work a lot...aaaannnnddd I'm a sucker for a PIC in need of extra help). My job rocks. That's not including call pay and all that.

I make a better salary than most retail pharmacists and I like my job eleventy billion times better than most.

I will always love Converse shoes. Hipsters be damned. 😍

 

[spacecowgirl]

6) The weird ass drugs dermatologists order that I've never heard of before in my freaking life. We have 37 steroid creams in stock. You don't need Xermoroid at $300 a tube or whatever the hell its called.
10) The fact that lab coats are white. One Coke Zero spillage and its done.

Or extended release low-dose tetracyclines for $500. Shoot me.

I love that you drink Coke Zero. I should buy stock in that stuff. If it causes cancer, I will be the first to know.

 

[BelleMD2B]

If I had to google chuck taylors to find out what your talking about, what does that make me, an anti-hipster?
Maybe it's cause I'm generation x...

How could you not know what Chuck Taylors were? Regardless of hipsters, especially since you're gen x. Every kid (guys and girls) I knew had a pair of chuck taylors in 1986. High tops to be exact. Which was revisited from every basketball player breaking their ankles in the, in 1976.