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TwixVoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 04:58 PM Original message |
The CVS inhaler article reminds me of a time we had an employee near death at Target |
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secondwind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
1. What a horribly story. I'm glad you and a Dr. were there to help this poor woman |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
2. You are a true hero. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
3. A teacher I know collapsed at school and the school nurse refused to help her |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 11:58 PM Response to Reply #3 |
33. It is the lawsuit environment |
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drm604 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 09:21 AM Response to Reply #33 |
50. I thought their were good samaritan laws |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 09:57 AM Response to Reply #50 |
55. And that does notvstop them |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 10:01 AM Response to Reply #3 |
56. Neither can the law |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 02:48 PM Response to Reply #3 |
79. It is a matter of legal liability. Unfortunately, someone can do a lot of harm |
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catrose (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 04:48 PM Response to Reply #3 |
89. A friend's granddaughter died at middle school |
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Ineeda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 05:05 PM Response to Original message |
4. What a horrible experience. |
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zeemike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
5. Holy crap what a story. |
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Jane Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
6. " It's very interesting how people in the retail business don't seem to have any common sense or e |
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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
7. Wow! |
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Terra Alta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 05:15 PM Response to Original message |
8. I work at Wal-mart |
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herbm (980 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 09:39 AM Response to Reply #8 |
52. What about the Walmart that wouldn't let a worker out of the building |
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Scruffy1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 05:09 PM Response to Reply #52 |
95. The supervisor should have been arrested |
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Thav (336 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 02:25 PM Response to Reply #8 |
75. It happened in ours |
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keroro gunsou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 04:00 PM Response to Reply #75 |
83. when i worked at wal-mart.... |
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herbm (980 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 09:48 AM Response to Reply #83 |
102. It ain't the employees, its the freakin management! A lot of the employess lost thier other job/busi |
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Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 02:33 PM Response to Reply #8 |
76. I'm sorry you work there. I do too. |
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Terra Alta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 02:55 PM Response to Reply #76 |
80. comforting to know I'm not the only one here |
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Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 03:04 PM Response to Reply #80 |
81. I've been there for five months... |
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jennied (547 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 04:20 PM Response to Reply #8 |
86. Yep. I experienced the same thing working at Walmart. |
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Systematic Chaos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
9. My last casino job: If you collapsed at a game you were dealing, |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
10. If you were written up, you should have immediately written to the home office. |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 05:56 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I would also have told the person who wrote me up that |
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Mariana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 07:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
22. Nah, the person who collapsed was an employee. |
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yellerpup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
12. You are a hero. |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
13. In defense of both the pharmasist and the nurse mentioned in this thread |
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gristy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 06:17 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. No. Good samaritan laws would have protected them. |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 06:21 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. not necessarily |
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gristy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 06:38 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I believe you are mistaken. Can you provide any backup for this claim? |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 06:39 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. your own wiki article for one |
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gristy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 06:43 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. where? |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 06:52 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Here |
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gristy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 07:11 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. ok. Though I have to say that this is such a narrow rendering |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 10:38 AM Response to Reply #20 |
60. What the article is referring to is how good Sam laws cover non licensed personnel |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 12:44 PM Response to Reply #15 |
103. Not according to the Red Cross training I've received |
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tblue37 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 08:02 PM Response to Reply #14 |
26. A pharmacist friend of mine was sued for saving a little girl's life with |
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Incitatus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 02:27 AM Response to Reply #26 |
37. What was that about? Did the girl's parents sue him for saving her life? |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 05:01 PM Response to Reply #26 |
94. I can easily believe a company would not defend an employee |
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TwixVoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 09:10 PM Response to Reply #13 |
28. So you would let a person die |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 07:19 AM Response to Reply #28 |
44. I don't see what the pharmasist could really do |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 05:32 PM Response to Reply #44 |
96. in the OP says the pharmacist probably saved her life, so there's that |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 05:43 PM Response to Reply #96 |
97. no the OP said a doctor in the store saved the customers life |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 11:43 PM Response to Reply #97 |
101. oooops, sorry dude! |
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Dash87 (404 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 04:37 PM Response to Reply #28 |
88. I remember the story where this guy driving a car |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 04:25 AM Response to Reply #13 |
41. "In defense of..." |
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PerpetuallyDazed (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 07:14 AM Response to Reply #41 |
43. Maybe one might consider their life more important than another's? |
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uncommon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 07:54 AM Response to Reply #43 |
46. Getting in trouble is NOT equivalent to DYING. |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 08:49 AM Response to Reply #13 |
47. sued for rendering aid to a dying person? |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 10:33 AM Response to Reply #13 |
59. Sorry. You r wrong. |
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jeff47 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 12:57 PM Response to Reply #59 |
70. Depends on the state |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 01:15 PM Response to Reply #13 |
71. They wouldn't necessarily be sued |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
16. Meanwhile, dolphins banded together to save a human from a shark ... |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
21. Something has seriously gone wrong with human beings |
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bigmonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 12:57 AM Response to Reply #21 |
34. Corporations, corporate culture, and corporate propaganda. |
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KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
24. Know exactly what you |
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
25. Zombie nation |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
27. Awe. I have tears in mine eyes. You done good. |
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Pushed To The Left (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
29. You did the right thing. Does that store manager still work there? If so, you should let people in |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 09:26 PM Response to Original message |
30. What makes you think a pharmacist knows anything about emergency medicine? |
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Incitatus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 02:32 AM Response to Reply #30 |
39. The OP didn't say they walked past her, they said people walked OVER her. |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 03:44 AM Response to Reply #39 |
40. If you don't know how to care for someone who has passed out what are you supposed to do? |
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JanMichael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 10:09 AM Response to Reply #40 |
57. how about at least act concerned? |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 10:47 AM Response to Reply #40 |
61. They could have asked what they could do to help |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
31. If it's any consolation... |
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madmax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-16-10 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
32. WTF!! |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 01:28 AM Response to Original message |
35. I wish I didn't believe any of this. |
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rainbow4321 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 02:04 AM Response to Original message |
36. Health care settings are not much better |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 02:32 AM Response to Original message |
38. I collapsed at work, unable to stand or speak and in arrhythmia. My mgr did nothing but |
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Patiod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 11:03 AM Response to Reply #38 |
63. Just had to counteract REP with an opposite story |
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unapatriciated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 05:45 PM Response to Reply #38 |
98. here is another story, that is opposite of REP's |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 06:52 PM Response to Reply #38 |
99. I was once reprimanded for blacking out when I had pneumonia (no sick days) |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 11:17 PM Response to Reply #99 |
100. Some companies are just shit. I worked at an insurance |
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intaglio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 05:42 AM Response to Original message |
42. TwixVoy, you showed true humanity |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 10:56 AM Response to Reply #42 |
62. Um. Corporate propaganda? No matter how you explain it, it's sociopathic behavior. |
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jdp349 (372 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 07:27 AM Response to Original message |
45. that's disgusting |
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The Uncola (519 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 08:56 AM Response to Original message |
48. Worked retail for about 5 years... |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
49. Yep....a bunch of |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 09:36 AM Response to Original message |
51. K&R |
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adamuu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
53. Oh my God. |
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Sienna86 (505 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
54. You did the right thing. |
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sammythecat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
58. Jesus |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
64. There's a real lack of compassion in our national |
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BlancheSplanchnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 12:53 PM Response to Reply #64 |
69. I think that sickening stories like these should be sent as LTTE's and any other soap boxes possible |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
65. Yeah, I don't know |
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Crunchy Frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
66. Please write an editorial or LTTE about this for your local newspaper. |
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Carni (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
67. That is a horrific story! |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
68. Pharmacists don't really have any emergency medical training. They only know how to mix drugs. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 01:23 PM Response to Reply #68 |
72. Pharmacists know a lot more than "how to mix drugs". |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
73. most people are bad people |
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Webster Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
74. That's horrible! |
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Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
77. If they would've written me up for that, I would've said... |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 04:58 PM Response to Reply #77 |
93. They would have to fire me. Then I would sue their asses off! |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
78. Unbelievable story, but so unbelievable that it has to be true. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
82. This shit makes me so angry. |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
84. Some people are just callous. |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
85. yet another reason we rarely shop at the Big Box stores. |
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Dash87 (404 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
87. Your last paragraph is completely true. |
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eilen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
90. I work in healthcare at a hospital |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
91. I don't have much faith in humanity either. |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-17-10 04:55 PM Response to Original message |
92. The store manager should be fired! You should threaten to write a Letter to the Editor |
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