“Is that a camera up there?” asked Supertech, my most-favorite of coworkers, pointing towards the pole that stands in the pharmacy.

I look in the direction that she’s pointing and see a small black cylinder roughly the size and shape of a marker. From where we’re standing I can’t make out any details of it, but after checking it out from behind it is most definitely a new security camera freshly installed in the pharmacy over the weekend. Being my generally tech-geeky self, I’ve verified that it is not hooked up to the feed that is already being recorded, it’s pointing directly at the safe, and is not being recorded elsewhere in the building, such as in the office or in the stock room where loss-prevention usually reviews tapes. Currently, the running theory is that somewhere directly over the pharmacy is a vcr. Another theory we’ve discussed is that the camera is a decoy and that there is another less obvious one hidden back there.

The loss prevention people are morons though. The camera isn’t hidden at all, and is glaringly obvious against the all white walls/ceiling/pole. Not to mention that when it was installed over the weekend, they neglected to put back the panel in the ceiling. We may not have picked it out so quickly had we not been looking up wondering exactly why the hell a tile had been moved out of the way. Alas, none of us is tall enough to poke our head into the ceiling to verify the existence of a recording unit. We have, however, waved at it on a number of occasions, just on the very slim chance that somewhere in corporate headquarters is a very bored loss prevention guy watching us live. We’re also imagining that we’re being broadcast as a Big Brother sort of reality show to someplace where being a pharmacy tech is considered an exotic, exciting occupation. We’re calling this show Counting By Fives. Obviously, we’ve got some free time on our hands.

We’re figuring that the company is trying to figure out what happened to 10 Oxycontin tabs a month or so ago, but if questioned would probably say it’s to better record what happens in the event of a break-in.

Which leads me to the next work-related update, we’ve got a freshly installed security shutter surrounding the pharmacy. Well, almost surrounding. You see, there’s about a 7′ side where there’s no way to attach the curtain to the ceiling (again, drop ceiling tiles), so the shutter is attached to the wall and the overhang in front of the pharmacy, leaving about 6″ or so of space between the ceiling and the top of the shutter’s “hood”. Our first idea was that some super skinny dude would be about to squeeze through the space, but then Supertech pointed out that it would be so easy to just lift up the tile on one side of the shutter, climb through the ceiling space, and drop down into the pharmacy.

Sometimes Supertech is so devious she scares me.

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