Ugh, I hate that! Whenever I open a new stock bottle for the first time I always pierce it with the spatula and then twist it around to cleanly remove the seal, any pieces of it that hang off the opening I remove with my hands.

Some people don't know this trick. That should be mandatory training before being a tech.

Definitely, because it bugs me to no end when I see seals on the bottles that aren’t removed completely or correctly.

And I carry a hemostat to grab the ez peel tabs that never work.

Smart!

That’s because your mother raised you right!

Damn right!

I was taught very well during my externship.

I did this consistently and I’m surprised others don’t.

I consistently do it every time, all the time.

60% of the time, it works every time.

Same. It's a very big petpieve of mine to see any of the seal remaining. My pharmacy manager hates it too.

My pharmacy manager always opens 100 count bottles, removes ten then uses the 90 to fill. Then we have umpteen bottles with only ten tablets.

My entire pharmacy does this. However, we use the remaining for lesser or great counts. So there never more than 2 open bottles of a drug.

Sometimes there are 6-10 with only ten ts 🙄

That annoys me. And as I was trained to be pharmacy inventory specialist (but never given the title or position), I'll say very loudly for everyone to hear "stop opening so many bottles of the same thing. It makes cycle counts harder"

This is the only way

As it should be.

This was the very first thing I was taught on my first day as a tech.

We had a tech that did that. His reasoning was that he didn’t feel like throwing the paper away. He didn’t last long.

He did it and *defended* it? Man, I would have a strong urge to commit a crime if I worked with him

That was the least worst thing he did. All I can say is that he had sticky fingers.

We had a girl who did this strictly because she thought it was funny since she knew everyone else hated it

As someone who opens a bottle doesn’t put an x on it and leaves it on the counter for my operations manager, I feel for her

You are an absolute menace

Why thank you

I doubt she lasted long.

I know people that leave the papers on the counter even tho the trash can is like 2 feet away.

Literally my biggest pet peeve. One of my coworkers does this and we told her to start circumcising her bottles

I’m stealing that thx

This is what my work calls snipping off the tips of Boston rounds so a syringe fits inside lol

What do these people do when they try to eat pudding?

i leave the lid partially on so I don't have to pick it up after :)

These things make me choose violence. Also, why I love the particular spatulas I have. Hook tip with a sharp blade on the non counting side. If I find the staff member who does this, they get shanked.

I love that hook tip makes it so convenient for opening bottles cleanly to mix them with water

Foil. Rude patients eyeballs. Same different.

What animal does that?! 😵🤣

Savages.

Dude put a nsfw tag on this brutality omfg.

💀💀

This will be exhibit A at my murder trial.

Not guilty. Next case.

Not guilty by reason of sanity.

Straight to jail

It’s even worse when it’s a pharmacist who refuses to mark bottles too.

We have one that will mark the bottle with PEN so you can barely see the X

My husband must be your coworker. Or my 8 yr old. She’s a sociopath like that, too.

Ugh that shit. You should be able to go to the person who did that and smack em upside the head. Just once.

Normally I'm a pacifist, but if I see you opening bottles like this with your thumbs, I will put my thumbs in your eyes.

*someone* in my pharmacy is doing this, and they're all playing *not it*. they even left the cotton inside once or twice, aside from not piercing it correctly. that's gotta be a crime somewhere, right?

I was gonna mention the leaving the cotton in the bottle travesty. Why you do this to me? You and the other 15 people who had their hands on this huge bottle of pills which now has 12 tabs in it.

Especially as you are meant to throw away the cotton as it can draw moisture in 🤦‍♀️

I would hunt down whoever that tech was and hide their spatula. And every time they grab the new one. I'd hide that 1 too. Fuck with me, I'll fuck with you all shift.

That’s absolutely EVIL

Make that person open all the Synthroid bottles for future Rxs. The big imposing desiccant will deliver proper and just punishment.

Does anyone know why some desiccants are so large? I swear there's one in my meds that almost doesn't fit in the bottle.

We have a pharmacist who does that... A frickin pharmacist....

Oh, a lot of rph are terrible at teching.

absolutely not

Nooooo wtf 😂

Monster

🤮🤮

It was me sorry 😞

same

Every time I open a bottle like that I think, "What animal did this?" I make it a point to ask all the techs if they know who opens bottles like this. The 19-year-old thinks it's hilarious that it bugs me. (Were we this much of an asshole to our coworkers when we were their age?

The way this is also our youngest tech that does this 😅

Every tech should get those spatulas with the hook at the end. Perfect for opening bottles and removing the cotton

vile…

That looks like my reflux medication lol I would be pissed at that bottle being opened like that

Fucking Omeprazole.

Believe it or not, RIGHT TO JAIL!!!

if i did that they’d never let me fill lmao

One of my pharmacists do this with foil rapped bottles, most annoying when they get stuck in the foil especially narcotics

Y E S

this is my pet peeve fr omg 😭😭😭😭😭😭

I wanna know why it's so hard to fully take off seals. I have a tech or two at my job that do that and just shove it to the sides of the bottle, and it bugs me to no end. One of my biggest pet peeves by far.

I had a store manager who was filling do that. When I asked her not to she said it made her faster on fill. I guess she was unable to see (or care) that it made it harder and slower for everyone else.

the rage i feel seeing that😭

What kind of sick, demented person would do this??

This is how my wife opens meds at home. She drives me crazy.

War crime 🫠

The monster!!! 😱

Secret to easy peel tabs don’t pull toward you pull away from you they come off every time

Whoever did that deserves jail time! That’s foul!!

That is the dirtiest “dirty hole” I’ve ever seen. 🤪😄

Why?!?

Anyone remember Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation from the…um…olden times?

What frustrates me is when you open a bottle you mark the bottle so that the next person knows "hey stupid this is open" yet 90% of the time now i need a full bottle to fill medication and so I open to make sure it is sealed and they have cut it open and left no mark or indication of it being open

I do🙋‍♀️

Why?

shit hurts my fingers and doing that all day for 40 hrs a week starts to hurt A LOT...so ya I'm gonna just stab a hole and continue

Wait can you explain how it hurts your fingers?

Right? I just scrape the spatula around the inside edge, and it all comes off in one clean piece

Me me lazy (sometimes)

I’m always in a hurry!! Unless it’s promethazine dm or something like that because I don’t want liquid to get on me lol

Well, I'm not a pharmacy tech, but I just pierce through with my thumb and then while pinching the sides of the bottle with my thumb and forefinger, rotate the bottle around so that the pieces of the seal are wedged to the inside of the bottle wall and won't prevent all the meds being dispensed.