Like the question goes,
I will start with mine, I'm a druggist.
Patient: I have this severe body pain and headache that won't let me do anything, please give me a good pain killer.

Me: (proceeds to get the "best" analgesic), you have to take this one tablet every 12 hours for 3 days.

Patient: how much is it?

Me: ₦1,000

Patient: Ah, why is it too expensive naa, just ordinary pain killer, please give me paracetamol.

Me: (speaking in my mind) why you no just walk in tell me say paracetamol you wan buy.

2nd scenario:

Patient: Pharm please I want the best antimalarial.

Me: This one is ₦1800

Patient: That's too expensive, give me the one of a lesser price.

Me (proceeds to bring another one)
This one is ₦1,600.

Patient: You don't have the one that the price is lesser than these two.

Me: (brings the cheapest) this one is "dozismartem", it's ₦250.

Patient: Are you sure this one will work, please give me that first one you said it's ₦1,800.

Me: (speaking to myself) What is the colour of your problem this morning?.

I also hate the fact that what I earn is not commensurate with the volume of books I read in school (I practically had no social life back in school and still don't have).

I hate working on Sundays and there are no public holidays because we are termed "essential workers".
Last but not all,

Patient: Please I want to buy "Beecham Ampiclox", two capsules.

Me: Please ma we don't "cut" Ampiclox, do you realise that Ampiclox is an antibiotic and you need to follow the full dosage regimen of one capsule every six hours for five days? that means you need two scahets of ten capsules each, to complete the regimen, this is to completely eradicate the bacteria and also avoid antibiotics resistance.

Patient: Two capsules are enough for me, that's how I take it, you just want to "sell more market", I for no even come here, if to say that chemist for my street don open.

Me: (by this time I'm already weak and have nothing more to say as she jejely goes to look for where they will cut two capsules for her)
And she will definitely see because we are in "competition" with Patent medicine dealers and because our healthcare system is so messed up that the profession is more regulated for the professionals than the quacks in the street, because people can actually buy prescription only medications without a proper prescription in Nigeria and because if you are a pharmacist waiting for a doctor's prescription before you can sell a drug in Nigeria, you go wait tire.
There are still more but let me stop here.
In my next thread, I will be writing about common misconception about drugs in Nigeria and how we abuse drugs ignorantly.


What do you hate about your job?

Having women as colleagues no easy oh, that's what I detest about my work .
These ladies during handover they seem to intentional leave most pending works like billing and mailing for the dying minute so as to handover, lazy gender I call them and we earn same salary, their gossip no be here, at you own peril if you stoop so low to have a discuss with them absent thought of who might hear what you said about who. seems putting the needed effort to work is a crime for them. #SMH

OP.. that was just hilarious ...
That sounds like female customers U got there... May God give you the strength cause you really need it..

Too many female colleagues in my line of work. Put emotions in everything. Their loyalty to their boss, manners, rewarding or punishing those working under them is nothing near official..not a matter of 'right is right or wrong is wrong' but whether they like you or hate you. They'll like you if you turn them to a demigod and cover you up even if you commit a punishable offence. They'll work out your transfer to the Lions den for just not greeting them putting "ma" at the end of your greeting or for just being too upright. They gossip with other female colleagues whom they've never met in their entire life before except at work and turn the work place to a place to gossip private affairs and the flaws of other colleagues.

I sometimes don't blame gays and I sometimes wonder why God made women with such a limited mentality. Relating with them is like a trailer and bicycle claiming equality cus they both share the road as vehicles but obviously their capacity is nowhere close to each other.

Richy4:
OP.. that was just hilarious ...
That sounds like female customers U got there... May God give you the strength cause you really need it..

Amen oo

caesymore:
Having women as colleagues no easy oh, that's what I detest about my work .
These ladies during handover they seem to intentional leave most pending works like billing and mailing for the dying minute so as to handover, lazy gender I call them and we earn same salary, their gossip no be here, at you own peril if you stoop so low to have a discuss with them absent thought of who might hear what you said about who. seems putting the needed effort to work is a crime for them. #SMH

I don't believe it's a gender thing, because I have worked with female colleagues that are great at what they do.
God is your strength my brother.

Klass99:
@ Dozis, you're a pharmacist or you work in a pharmacy - it doesn't matter sha.

Your narrative had me smiling, then LoL and I haven't even finished reading.

I know exactly what you mean, I tend to do some of that when I am low on cash.

It's not intended to annoy the pharmacist attending to me, it's just me trying to get value with the small money I have no vex.

I hate the commute to and from my place of work, the office politics, favouritism and bosses who take it personally when staff move on to new jobs or better opportunities (na this one dey vex me pass sef, like WTF is wrong with you people? Did employees sign an agreement of till death do us part?)

The part about ampiclox, just did me in completely. LoL. Enjoy your day @ work, I'll look forward to the thread on abuse of drugs.

I know that the economy is biting hard on everyone and prices of essential drugs have sky rocketed but sometimes you get tired and you just want the person to go straight to the point.
Office politics is one of those things I can't stand, I once worked in a government hospital where your appraisal is 70% greeting/respect and 30% actual work input, that place pissed me off.
Have a lovely day too.

My current boss (hate might be a very strong word for me)

Never ever met a man that Nags so much, talks too much and very petty. Almost made me hate the job I love doing but God pass am.

We know its just a matter of time they will soon post him out.


@Dozis the dozismaterm made me loool, there are lots of materms out there

Oluromantic:
Too many female colleagues in my line of work. Put emotions in everything. Their loyalty to their boss, manners, rewarding or punishing those working under them is nothing near official..not a matter of 'right is right or wrong is wrong' but whether they like you or hate you. They'll like you if you turn them to a demigod and cover you up even if you commit a punishable offence. They'll work out your transfer to the Lions den for just not greeting them putting "ma" at the end of your greeting or for just being too upright. They gossip with other female colleagues whom they've never met in their entire life before except at work and turn the work place to a place to gossip private affairs and the flaws of other colleagues.

I sometimes don't blame gays and I sometimes wonder why God made women with such a limited mentality. Relating with them is like a trailer and bicycle claiming equality cus they both share the road as vehicles but obviously their capacity is nowhere close to each other.

@bold:

But you are describing the average worker in the Nigerian workplace.

And I use 'Nigerian' because that is the only workplace I know.

It is your prejudice and negative bias towards women that is at play here.

Sure, each gender have negative traits mostly associated with them but to think gossiping, ass licking(receiving and giving) and been emotional is a woman's thing shows you are not been objective.

@emotions: it is a constantly propagated myth that women are 'emotional' and men 'logical'. Well, almost every human (male & female) are very emotional and do things because of emotions: anger, ego, insecurities, over excitement, happiness, feeling good etc.

I mostly relate with male customers at work (about 97%) and I can get them to agree to almost anything because I am a good negotiator. And I negotiate using people's emotions (OP, those are one of the things I like about my job anyways).

It is a well known fact that anyone whom you cater to his/her ego (emotions of pride, feeling better than others or on top), you will get them to do anything for you.

Tell me the gender again that you are told to 'massage' their ego to get what you want?

Yet, I will not say men are the 'emotional' gender because men & women display emotions in different ways.

There are very few people who think logically and even them use emotions to deliver the package at times.

bukatyne:


@bold:

But you are describing the average worker in the Nigerian workplace.

And I use 'Nigerian' because that is the only workplace I know.

It is your prejudice and negative bias towards women that is at play here.

Sure, each gender have negative traits mostly associated with them but to think gossiping, ass licking(receiving and giving) and been emotional is a woman's thing shows you are not been objective.

@emotions: it is a constantly propagated myth that women are 'emotional' and men 'logical'. Well, almost every human (male & female) are very emotional and do things because of emotions: anger, ego, insecurities, over excitement, happiness, feeling good etc.

I mostly relate with male customers at work (about 97%) and I can get them to agree to almost anything because I am a good negotiator. And I negotiate using people's emotions (OP, those are one of the things I like about my job anyways).

It is a well known fact that anyone whom you can able to his/her ego (emotions of pride, feeling better than others or on top), you will get them to do anything for you.

Tell me the gender again that you are told to 'massage' their ego to get what you want?

Yet, I will not say men are the 'emotional' gender because men & women display emotions in different ways.

There are very few people who think logically and even them use emotions to deliver the package at times.

One thing I have learnt over the years is not to associate a particular trait or behaviour to gender or tribe especially at work, if I can't take bullshit from a man, I won't also accept it from a lady because work ethics are not embedded in XX or XY chromosomes, meaning that it's not genetic.

@OP:

I think what I like/love might be a safer bet:

I love negotiating with customers and I have the confidence that I would almost always come out with a win-win situation. And because I manage a set of customers, negotiation is not a one time thing.

I love to turn raw data into complex analysis of trends and give recommendations on the way forward. I love it even though it can be stressful and tedious.

I love when I do inductions, trainings and refresher courses.

I love when a customer has a complex issue or strigent delivery/project timeline and I deliver and ensure they are very satisfied.

I love participating/driving extracurricular company activities.

I like that work from home now (even though it is a scam ).

I love when I am part of the project team to formulate new processes or review existing ones.

I love that I have been lucky to have good immediate and a level higher bosses. And interestingly, all sans one has been female.

How can I forget? I LOVE that my job and work environment allows me to be assertive to customers (which is very key in negotiations) when required. That's actually one of the things our CEO promotes. Under no circumstance does a customer insult an employee without addressing it.

When I think of more, I might be back

Dozis:

One thing I have learnt over the years is not to associate a particular trait or behaviour to gender or tribe especially at work, if I can't take bullshit from a man, I won't also accept it from a lady because work ethics are not embedded in XX or XY chromosomes, meaning that it's not genetic.

While there are some specific traits to a specific gender (good & bad) most traits at work are more of the person's beliefs and aspirations than tribe or sex.

@your OP:

I am most likely scenario two I would ask for the one of N1,600 sha

Apologies to you and all the other very few pharmacists. I say very few because I don't use drugs

Oluromantic:
Too many female colleagues in my line of work. Put emotions in everything. Their loyalty to their boss, manners, rewarding or punishing those working under them is nothing near official..not a matter of 'right is right or wrong is wrong' but whether they like you or hate you. They'll like you if you turn them to a demigod and cover you up even if you commit a punishable offence. They'll work out your transfer to the Lions den for just not greeting them putting "ma" at the end of your greeting or for just being too upright. They gossip with other female colleagues whom they've never met in their entire life before except at work and turn the work place to a place to gossip private affairs and the flaws of other colleagues.

I sometimes don't blame gays and I sometimes wonder why God made women with such a limited mentality. Relating with them is like a trailer and bicycle claiming equality cus they both share the road as vehicles but obviously their capacity is nowhere close to each other.

Shut up. Fuc.k men if you want to and leave women alone. Nairaland men turn any and every thread into a woman bashing wa.nk fest. Fool

Khonifer:


Shut up. Fuc.k men if you want to and leave women alone. Nairaland men turn any and every thread into a woman bashing wa.nk fest. Fool

You've lost rationality. Work on your mind and leave the thread within scope

bukatyne:


@bold:

But you are describing the average worker in the Nigerian workplace.

And I use 'Nigerian' because that is the only workplace I know.

It is your prejudice and negative bias towards women that is at play here.

Sure, each gender have negative traits mostly associated with them but to think gossiping, ass licking(receiving and giving) and been emotional is a woman's thing shows you are not been objective.

@emotions: it is a constantly propagated myth that women are 'emotional' and men 'logical'. Well, almost every human (male & female) are very emotional and do things because of emotions: anger, ego, insecurities, over excitement, happiness, feeling good etc.

I mostly relate with male customers at work (about 97%) and I can get them to agree to almost anything because I am a good negotiator. And I negotiate using people's emotions (OP, those are one of the things I like about my job anyways).

It is a well known fact that anyone whom you cater to his/her ego (emotions of pride, feeling better than others or on top), you will get them to do anything for you.

Tell me the gender again that you are told to 'massage' their ego to get what you want?

Yet, I will not say men are the 'emotional' gender because men & women display emotions in different ways.

There are very few people who think logically and even them use emotions to deliver the package at times.

I agree with you. However, there's still a significant gap between logicality and emotions among men and women.

Oluromantic:

I agree with you. However, there's still a significant gap between logicality and emotions among men and women in Nigeria.

Can you give practical examples?

I work in a psychiatric hospital during family therapy sessions with relatives of patients, some give ultimatum on when they relatives "must be cured" or they request for discharge against medical advice.

A pyromaniac or one who is struggling with schizophrenia is being admitted and relatives wants overnight transformation!

Klass99:


1. Why do you think/say working from home is a scam?

2. The bolded is a great and healthy workplace policy.

3. I hate that saying - the customer is king or the customer is always right, I hate it with every fiber of my being because it's just so wrong and inaccurate.

1. Everyone unconsciously expects you to be at work 24 * 7. And the people actually working onsite think you are 'enjoying' because you are not going to work. On the flip side, you can watch KOB from 2pm - 4pm and start working by 6pm. And the amount of meetings to get things done; yikes! And the work is legit more; I don't understand the logic, but it is more than when you work onsite. These days, going to the office is like my off days

2. Thanks but again, na everyone go chop breakfast so while our customers don't disrespect us; they want things yesterday and we turn back the hands of time to give them what they want yesterday. That leaves people very burnt out because everything is urgent else someone would die so there is serious juggling of resources.

3. I have never believed it myself. It sounds like all these new age stupidity packaged as wisdom.

Mindlog:
I work in a psychiatric hospital during family therapy sessions with relatives of patients, some give ultimatum on when they relatives "must be cured" or they request for discharge against medical advice.

A pyromaniac or one who is struggling with schizophrenia is being admitted and relatives wants overnight transformation!

I understand their perspective sha.

Mindlog:
I work in a psychiatric hospital during family therapy sessions with relatives of patients, some give ultimatum on when they relatives "must be cured" or they request for discharge against medical advice.

A pyromaniac or one who is struggling with schizophrenia is being admitted and relatives wants overnight transformation!

Psychiatry is one place I would mind working again, I did my internship in one of the Neuropsychiatric hospitals in the South West, though it helped me with the knowledge of antipsychotics but it's not where I would wish to work again.
I really can't relate with your experience because my job back then was just to dispense the drugs.

I hate it when my boss doesn't do the right thing at the right time and at the end of the day, the whole thing fall back on me...

wunmi590:


I hate it when my boss doesn't do the right thing at the right time and at the end of the day, the whole thing fall back on me...

Hahahahahaha!

Next time, prompt your boss (privately & with tact) when assignments are going to be due. You can even suggest or share a few things you have started doing to reduce the task. It is possible he/she likes to procrastinate, does not enjoy those tasks, has other strategic tasks, is overworked or is lazy.

This would prevent the blame coming to you and helps you to maintain a good relationship with your boss.

Hopefully, when you become a boss, you remember how you feel now and be more intentional towards doing such tasks faster and/or have integrity to own up that it's your mistake.

Goodluck.

bukatyne:


Hahahahahaha!

Next time, prompt your boss (privately & with tact) when assignments are going to be due. You can even suggest or share a few things you have started doing to reduce the task. It is possible he/she likes to procrastinate, does not enjoy those tasks, has other strategic tasks, is overworked or is lazy.

This would prevent the blame coming to you and helps you to maintain a good relationship with your boss.

Hopefully, when you become a boss, you remember how you feel now and be more intentional towards doing such tasks faster and/or have integrity to own up that it's your mistake.

Goodluck.

Let me go straight to the point, my boss is stingy, so she likes cutting corners, and until the whole corners are block before she now goes back to the real solution, which would now make her spend more money....

Abeg I don tire for that my oga

wunmi590:


Let me go straight to the point, my boss is stingy, so she likes cutting corners, and until the whole corners are block before she now goes back to the real solution, which would now make him spend more money....

Abeg I don tire for that my oga

Ha!

I can't help you there

Sounds like a police man/procurement/logistics type of thing.

Na una Sabi yourselves.

Hmmm... as a developer, i had to deal with some funny clients...you work on a projects! after you deliver and lunch the program...some clients be like...hmmm can you change this

can you move this over to the next page

i want this particular page to display so so so {i be like, but this was not including in your layouts :-}

hmmm can you replace the image{ maam, you selected this remember?

But i love handling the correction because its my job and i get paid for it

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