I love Sebastian because his jokes aren't jokes. They're actual silly events we do every day and think nothing of it. This guy is a genius! I love this man! I will never look at another pharmacy the same.
I worked part-time in a pharmacy for a few years a long time ago. The funniest things used to happen in there. I couldn't believe the things customers would ask for or say in there! I was pretty young, as were most of the other clerks on duty, during the hours I worked. We had SUCH a HARD time not laughing hysterically at some of the things we were asked or told by customers. :D
As a pharmacy tech, we LOATHE this. Like yeah let me grab that box you pointed at and slap a label on it even though it's not the correct medication. Also this is the busiest time of day, there are 3 people back here doing everything, phones ringing off the hook, and the pharmacist has to verify every prescription to make sure no one dies. So yes, 25 minutes.
im a big fan of you and im a pharmacist. I just got off work. So let me explain why it takes 25 minutes lol. 1. the clerk needs to type in the prescription (if there is missing information or if it's narcotic, we have to verify with the doctor. and It's the law. If it is controlled medication, and missing doctor name or signature or the prescription was not "checked" it is federal law that we cannot fill it) keep in mind in regular days, the clerk has 10-15 scripts to type at any second, so we are already behind. 2. Technician needs to pull the medication, make sure we carry the meds and fill it. This might take 10 minutes or more since normal pharmacy could fill from 200-500 Rx per day. 3. Pharmacist has to verify the final check. We have to check if the prescription is right, if it's covered by your insurance, and other things to avoid insurance fraud, drug interactions, and other things to prevent any errors in dispensing, It's a daily thing that Pharmacist has to be on the phone with another doctor, then working on verifying other patient prescription, and other things. We always multitask. It may seem that we just count pills but it takes more than that. I worked as a clerk, a technician and a pharmacist now. I hope this helps everyone understand why it takes so long. And we always appreciate it when patients understand because we want to help you as fast as possible but we do not want to jeopardize your or the other patients safety. We live from paycheck to paycheck like everyone else too so please be nice to your pharmacist. Thanks :)
Pharmacist here too. Thanks for the clarification and educating the public on how this works. Also don’t forget that companies like CVS and Walgreens like to cut our technician hours, also add vaccination walk-ins into the mix. Retail pharmacy these days is understaffed to the point of always being behind on orders and always busy! 😢
As a pharmacy tech at Walgreens we gotta scan in the script, type it up, bill it through the insurance, have the pharmacist verify it, package or at least label the medication, give it to the pharmacist the make sure it’s all correct and then sell it to the customer…..in the meantime answering 40 phone calls and dealing with the drive thru….25mins is not a bad time 😂
Most people don't get that. Its not just taking the meds off the shelf and handing it to the customer, there are other steps that need to be taken to complete the transaction. 😏
...but Sebastian said they’re all waiting around the store for no reason as well. No one was in line at the moment, so who was getting their prescription?! 😝 ACTUALLY, ppl go to the ER just when they run out of knuckle bandaids 🩹 or have a splinter on their finger. All the SERIOUS patients died, bleeding to death while waiting for the docs and nurses to take them to the back room and get the harpoon out of their chests!
That’s why you make an advance appointment: so you only have to wait THREE hours instead of 5 cos 3 patients ahead of you are in the ER cos they have gum stuck in their hair or they took a shower and couldn’t get all the shampoo outta their eyes 😱
Same here. I enjoy listening to his audiences, too. You know how sometimes, when a comedian (NOT Sebastian!) isn't really very funny, the audience fake laughs or applauds, just to be polite, and it's kind of obvious? They never have to do that with HIM, and it makes me feel good and laugh even more, to hear THEM laughing so hard! I'm pretty sure I'd be completely insane by now, with everything that's going on these days, if I hadn't been binging on his videos. :)
This was pretty funny to watch lol because I work in a pharmacy. It always seems as simple as putting a label on the medication then in a bottle and boom.. Done. But not that simple. Putting the prescription in the system and through insurance takes about 5 minutes. Occasionally, the prescription has to be confirmed with the doc who wrote it. Another 5 minutes. And other times, insurance companies wanna be difficult with how the prescription should be billed. That can be 10 minutes or more. And then people who came in before you to get their prescriptions makes the wait a bit longer. So it can be anywhere from a 5 minute wait to about 20-25. All depends.
Thank you!! working in the pharmacy is no joke, ppl think it’s that easy to put labels lol they don’t know that we have steps and regualtions to follow
I worked in pharmacies for 10 years and I used to ask the same questions until I started to work there as well. It’s a little more complicated than that and yes it gets busy more than you think and more than I thought. I get it though.
I know right? And not everyone is sitting in line or are in the store, there are fill times on each leaflet. And now since we are doing covid vaccines and doing covid testing, things just take longer than they used to....ahhh pharmacy life lol
That's understandable. And I'm sure pharmacusts& techs have to make calls to insurance companies& Doctor's offices,& there are prescriptions called in& after filling prescriptions, there's printing out label for bottles,etc. & probabably so much more than it seems to us customers.
Exactly, my girlfriend has to use a mortar and pestle to grind up pills sometimes before adding various other ingredients. Not to mention processing the prescription, sometimes she has to call insurance companies to fight for customers to get certain medications covered. I love Sebastian's comedy, but most people don't appreciate how much work they have to do in a pharmacy.
@@mattg5791 hes pointing out the medication which is basically there on the shelf and need no 25 mins to get. Hes not pointing out the medications that actually needed time to make
Regardless, pharmacies have promise times for 100's of patients that they are desperately trying to take care of along with phones ringing off the hook all day with people asking if their shit is ready, it's not as easy as "JuSt SlAp A lAbEl On It"@@stevenraul6403
Sebastian is such a gem, beyond funny, and his deliveries and how he animates his material, truly second to none. I have been a huge fan of his since his first stand up special on Netflix, he never disappoints. His success is VERY well deserved.
For anyone wondering why it takes 25 minutes, it's because the prescription needs to be logged, inspected, and approved by the pharmacy. Once that happens, the pharmacist needs to bill your insurance. After that, the pharmacist has to slap a prescription label onto the medicine for you that may literally be right there and make sure the prescription label is accurate and the drug is accurate. Only after that is it ready to be given out. Depending on your place of residence, the pharmacist may be legally bound to counsel you on your medication, which takes time. The process is normally really smooth until you get that one insurance issue that clogs the pipeline, or that one illegible, DEA monitored, or fatal prescription that involves extra steps. And occasionally the pharmacist really does have to compound your medicine.
Funny how people think all we do is put pills in a bottle. How do they think all the instructions and their name got on the vial, or where that copay amount came from?
Usually, happens when the med was not in stock. Most pharmacies get daily deliveries, and all things considered, one or two day restock is pretty decent turnaround. Now, the front of the store (the retail portion)....thaaat's a whole other ball of wax. And, yeah, all of the employee's work for one corp. But, most retail employee's know very little of the workings in the pharmacy. And vica versa, most of the pharmacy staff know little about the retail folks chores (other than register sales and stocking/facing).
I love when the automatic calling system calls and says your script is ready and when you get there they say it isn't. Then they explain that it wasn't them that called, it was their system. I am confused. Isn't it the same thing?? 😖
The ignorance the general public has toward pharmacies is unreal. This guy seriously highlights it. Yes, there are people ahead of you. Probably 50 to 100 people ahead of you. Electronic prescriptions being sent in every minute, prescriptions left over voicemail, transfers, insurance, non-stop phone calls from patients asking questions, drive thru, vaccines, paperwork, tasks, constant inventory of controlled medications. The filing process only takes 30 seconds for each patient, but you’re in a line of at least 50 to be filled and then it goes to the line of prescriptions to be verified by the RPH. But before all that, it’s in a line to be entered and typed into the system and to be processed through insurance. These steps take time. If there is any minor mistake, the DEA and state board will knock down our doors, run audits and suspend our license to work. Incredibly stressful environment. Not to mention the big chains understaff and overwork. We have double the volume and half the staff of what pharmacies use to have 10 years ago. Chains put patient safety at risk because they value profit more.
Thanks Sebastian for the Laughter in the midst of this Coronavirus & NYC Lockdown. You are the only one, who can make me laugh - right now. Stay Safe everyone.
What he does to American comedy with this technique of retelling the realistic observations is more or less what Scorsese did to American drama. Absolutely authentic, metaphorically minimal and a school for successors.
My big-box pharmacy will say they didn't receive the mail. I call doctor's office. "Ok, we'll send it again." Repeat at least once. For a time I was carrying the computer-printed script to the pharmacist.
Lol I can’t believe you make fun of my profession as a top fan of yours lol. You nailed it, hilarious. Genius like you only comes once in a blue moon lol
Yes, but it's for HIPPA. Also, the off chance that you happen to enjoy criminal mischief... and just heard that the man, with a cane, in front of you is picking up morphine sulfate. ANNND, in order to pick-up his medication, he verifies some sensitive info (almost always it's his address and one of a couple other choices; date of birth, last 4 digits of his cell phone, possibly his partner's name and their meds, etc.). So, in the right circumstances, a criminal opportunity could be served up on a silver platter. The standing back is for that individuals right to privacy and protection. Similar to a bank.
Rolmodel 12 Yeah, yeah, privacy. Thing is (as Sebastian pointed out here) you may still overhear sensitive info. It can certainly be keyed in on a screen /pad to avoid that possibility. We have that technology easily available.
Sooooo.... Let me use a fast food restaurant to explain. Now each item is not hard to do by itself. But you have over 90 customers at any given time. most of them may not be in the store personally, but their prescriptions have arrived, and you better bet that any prescription you miss they're showing up for. Then dealing with insurance can take anywhere from 30 seconds to 30 minutes because they're stupid and their computers are stupid. It takes time to decipher what the doctor wrote, it takes a few minutes to type the prescription into the computer, the pharmacist checks it multiple times, filling it doesn't take long, but it enters another line of other prescriptions that have already been filled that need to be checked by the pharmacist. If at any point any mistakes are not caught, there are multiple government agencies that will show up and fine the person responsible for more than all of your mortgages combined. It's a nightmare. Oh and you only have four people in the back, max. Oh and you need to answer the phones constantly.
Cerebral Static not to mention all the doctor calls... checking voice messages, flu shots.. most days pharmacists on their feet 14 hours.. some going all day without a lunch or even a bathroom break... so ya.. it’s not as simple as it looks..
He's right about the pharmacy. I always stand behind the magic line but clearly hear the pharmacist explain to the young lady how to use the birth control or take the medication for a STI. lol
Thank you for the gift of laughter, esp right now. Love the facial expressions and there was also booger wall in my house growing up, not saying whose room it was.
That's so true. The medicine is right on the shelf. What's the point of walking around Walgreens. Their's only so much you can see and do. You're better off sitting in your car. Lol
Lol just like that just grab it off the shelf? Oh boy, I guess ignorance is bliss. People don’t think about the other patients prescriptions we’re processing before they even set foot in the pharmacy. Like, get off your high horse and wait your turn.
@@poisonivy6477 amen girl! Handling, insurance calls, drive through, filling, calls from doctors coming in and going out because the messed up the script. Insure not going through. God forbid tricare goes down.
Customers can be ignorant anywhere. I do fast food graveyard shifts: 10 billion drunk college students’ Uber Eats orders at 3 am, NOBODY wants to take the job so I’m alone in the kitchen (so I get guaranteed hours!!!), customers waiting in the dark with cars filling the drive-thru, blocking the intersection, I go on my ‘lunch’ break and someone gets out of his car, knocks on the locked lobby door and asks me what’s taking so long. My customers def need a prescription...for anti-psychotic drugs!!! 😱
King Sebastian!!! I'm looking forward to the next tour or special post pandemic. Gonna be crazy funny.... God willing I'm still around to see it.... Yikes...🤯🤯🤯🤯✌🏻
Usually why it takes a bit is the paper work via for the system. Also if it's a new prescription it has several steps to make sure that it's the correct person, drug, doctor prescribing it, and then filling it and making sure that it's the correct drug and correct number of pills or amount of what ever it is.
better than messing it up and possibly hurting or killing someone because the directions are wrong or its the wrong strength or it's the wrong drug all together. working in a pharmacy isn't just slapping on a label and saying "here you go" lol
As someone who works at a pharmacy it’s ain’t as easy as just picking up a bottle of lotion and selling it to you. You have to check dosages, ingredients, side effects, insurance. If you want pay cash full price for that bottle of lotion fine. Pay your $75. And also you have to “check out” the prescription from the machine so avoid another opioid crisis.
I lived in the San Francisco area in the 80’s-90’s (yup I’m in my 50’s now). I visited all the cool comedy clubs in Calif then-loved it. I live in Nashville now, we have a national comedy club stop called “ Zanies”. I would pay for a ticket at whatever price to see Sebastian. His timing, monologue, physical acting ability, and attractiveness is Academy ( or Emmy if he has a HBO tv special) award presentation. He’s such an excellent comic professional.
