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Customer Who Desperately Needed Help

Posted by bigjohngriggs at 6:51 AM on 08.30.08

653 votes

Years ago, I worked in a call center that answered inquiries from customers about our mail order pharmacy program. One day, I had a call from a young lady asking about getting medications from us. She took two medications: Synthroid and Prozac. The call started out fairly uneventful. However, this is how the conversation ended:

Customer: “To get my medications from you, I can just mail in my label from (national pharmacy), right?”

Me: “No you need to obtain new prescriptions from your doctor and mail them in.”

Customer: “OH MY GOD! That means I have to see my doctor?!?!”

Me: “Unfortunately, yes.”

Customer: “Well, now I’m going to have to see my doctor anyway to increase my dosage of Prozac, because now I’m all depressed!!!”

*CLICK*

13 Responses to “Customer Who Desperately Needed Help”


  • ok big john, i voted for you, but you’re gonna have to vote for me….if they allow it. it may be what some might think of as “lewd”.

    Posted by paddymelt on September 2nd, 2008 at 5:46 pm

  • chuckle

    Posted by jane frauzel on September 3rd, 2008 at 1:56 pm

  • Take’s all kinds

    Posted by Betty Dearinger on September 3rd, 2008 at 4:29 pm

  • :-)

    Posted by peter griggs on September 9th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

  • Excellent. She might be the mother in the old Rolling Stones song - “she goes running for the shelter of a mother’s little helper.”

    Posted by sdonohue on September 11th, 2008 at 11:02 am

  • Yo bigjohngriggs; I like the story,It’s Top Shelf in My book & if any of You People Out there disagree with Me ,then G-d Bless You . Woody Vietnam Veteran

    Posted by Woody Woodworth on September 12th, 2008 at 8:37 am

  • nice!

    Posted by Jaime on September 12th, 2008 at 10:49 am

  • She needs to be on some “anti-stupid” medication as well.

    Posted by meagan.tomlin on September 15th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

  • Hi BigJohn: Got to, too, two, vote for this one Again. “Super”

    Posted by Woody Woodworth on September 28th, 2008 at 7:47 am

  • I think she needs something stronger than prozac!!

    Posted by Jeleane on October 1st, 2008 at 1:16 pm

  • too good, too true, too typical of people!!!

    Posted by kathie on October 2nd, 2008 at 10:29 am

  • That’s why this country is so messed up, half the country is on drugs and the other half is at the mall!

    Posted by Don Testa on October 7th, 2008 at 9:33 am

  • people only want per. drugs and any way they can get them.

    Posted by DiAnn Matteson on October 8th, 2008 at 11:01 am

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