CVS Health reviews

The pay is NOT sustainable, and simply does not equate to the mental/physical/emotional labor. I hate to have to say it, but its simply awful. And it goes for most pharmacy retail. The work you do and the responsibility you take on as a front store manager AND a pharmacy technician - the pay does not even come close to matching the myriad of problems you face every day on the job. When you’re in the pharmacy, more often than not, all of the technicians around you make more money hourly than you do, and you’re responsible for 3x as much? It’s frustrating. What’s most frustrating? No one seems to care. You bring it up to upper management and get smoke blown in your face. It’s offensive. You close out the business day, as you leave you solely are responsible for anything that may happen as you lock up the store as far as compliance related to the standards of the law, the company, the board of pharmacy, the government, the health department, etc are concerned… you get home, and eat Triscuit crackers because you can’t afford a meal.

There is no room for growth, cvs health owns Aetna and still give their employees trash medical benefits. Everyday is a new rule. CVS just started closing the pharmacy for lunch which is great but its only so they can make sure you DONT get paid for 30 minutes so they are able to save as much money as they can. District leaders don't really care about what the employees go through or how heavy our work load maybe , they just decrease hours given and only care about numbers. CVS wants their employees to work like robots with very little at home work like balance. The pharmacist will schedule you from open to close with no regard of what you may need to accomplish outside of work. Corporate will decrease store hours and tell you to use vacation time to make up the rest. During the pandemic we struggled with staffing and would tell stores to hire as much as they can, now those same people have to drive around from store to store just to keep afloat.