This morning a woman and her husband came to the counter. She proceeded to lay down all of the pieces of an at-home covid test on my counter. She began waving around the nasal swab that she used in her nose. She said the test wasn't working and wanted someone to help her. She then proceeded to cough and explain she felt terrible...

I'm done.

Patients are allowed to walk in "with symptoms" and touch anything they want in the store. As a pharmacy technician I get no extra time off for covid any longer. Now we are doing tests in the immunization room and people are touching everything!

I brought up my concerns to management and they were upset but just condemned the woman for being an idiot. I just want to be able to tell patients to go to the ER like the good old days when they are sick.

It's hard enough to do my job while being stressed from the workload...now I have to worry about patients potentially infecting my whole store.

I just cannot take pride in my work any longer at this company. The patients aren't all bad, but at my store enough aren't worth my stress. Maybe if I felt like my coworkers and management had my back it would be better.

Honestly I expect the comments to say things like "you should be lucky to have a job" "how can you be so insensitive to patients" or "Just go find another job"

Thats fine. But let me ask you...

When did we all just become okay with people who are sick, under-the-weather, or not feeling well...walking around in public and going to stores and sitting close to people in closed environments? If you're sick, stay away from people. I thought that's always been the rule since before I was born...