Hello wonderful CF folks! I hope you're all having lovely days leading up to whichever holiday you celebrate if any. I'm just over here stewing, figured I'd get this off my chest. This is long and mostly a vent, there's a TL;DR at the end, but mostly it's just venting and frustration.

A bit of background for you first. I work as a pharmacy tech at a high volume veterinary clinic. My job is to invoice all services, write out scripts, fill medication in-house, ensure the doctors have written their notes, handle refill requests, answer questions from outside pharmacies, and call owners with test results. No small task when we see around 100 patients a day through appointments/walk ins, and another 80 through our surgery suite. If we get behind, catching up is very difficult and can take days of staying late and getting in trouble for overtime.

So I have help. A lovely gal (awesome coworker) was hired in August to work with me most days, and she is very qualified and generally a joy. Sadly, a few weeks ago she accepted a tech position, so now I only work with her 1 day, and she helps cover my days off. The rest of my time is spent either alone or with Pregnant Coworker 1 (I'll call her PC1 for short). PC1 is roughly 4 months gone with her first kid. Personality-wise, she's a pretty good friend, if a bit lazy, and is a vet tech that was put in pharmacy when being pregnant happened. Recently the lazy has gotten to a whole new level. I can't keep her in her seat, she'll start something and wander away with it half done, being gone so long that the reception staff are getting questioned with how long it's taking to get medications and check out, then I'll have to finish her work.

It was manageable with just her, if not frustrating. But now there's another person (PC2) who's pregnant from our surgery side. She can no longer be in our surgery suite because of the use of anesthesia gas, so she was transferred to the regular vet side to be a room technician. She is also about 4 months gone I believe, and is starting to have some sort of issue restraining the dogs or getting on the floor for nail trims etc which I totally get, it's hard work and she's just a tiny thing. But now they want to put her in my pharmacy 2-3 days a week and I'll never have awesome coworker again.

Well yesterday was my day off (today too) and my reception supervisor texted me to let me know that it was horrible. Work was stacking up, they spent all their time chatting instead of working, they kept wandering away and making mistakes. Now PC2 I understand the mistakes because she's new, but I might actually die if they don't get their shit together. I'll be the one to deal with the fallout on Friday and it's going to suck.

It's not my fault they're pregnant, why do I have to clean up their mess? And there's no plan in place for when they go on maternity leave. I'm pretty sure they'll be gone around the same time, which will leave me and potentially awesome coworker, but then the doctors will be short technicians.

I'm already putting my concerns in an email to the practice manager, as I just know it'll get worse, and I have no authority over these ladies, I'm just the senior person in the position.

Thanks for reading if you got this far. TL;DR: Pregnant coworkers in my pharmacy make me want to tear my hair out.