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CVS is the most unethical company there is. If you want your district supervisors to talk behind your back to other employees, cover up their own mistakes by lying to other employees by saying you've "called off" when you took a vacation day months ago, or call you on your personal phone repeatedly until you answer on your days off to coerce you to come into work, this is the place for you. If you want to be retaliated against for calling ethics line, be told your boss IS your HR, and never get answers to your questions such as "why are our technician hours being slashed during flu shot season?", come work for CVS. If you want to be told to manipulate numbers so your sup can look good to their boss, feel pressure to put people on automatic refill without their consent, and call people on Saturdays and Sundays (oh, Christmas Eve included! Why not?) to randomly ask them if they want a medication that is 9/10 times no longer applicable, I think I know the place for you. If you google CVS lawsuits or CVS whistleblower, and it doesn't bother you that they've consistently been involved in some sort of unethical or highly illegal activity that puts at risk the taxpayers dollars as well as the licenses of the pharmacists involved, you'll be just fine! If you want to transfer to another city, expect your supervisor to put down your (above average) performance in order to manipulate you into improving your (read: their) metrics before they will give you a recommendation. And then don't expect the recommendation. Expect no employee-to-boss confidentiality, expect the reason you had to call off (e.g. Pink eye, family death) to be disclosed to the floater and the staff by not you but the company without your permission or knowledge, and expect no praise, just criticism, regarding the infinite metrics that are impossible to manage effectively across the board with the pathetic amount of tech hours you are given. Expect your flu shot goal to be double what you did last year, and criticism when you're not on target. Expect to be given managers' work phone numbers (reasonable), but have your personal number passed throughout the company without any regard to your preferences. Expect a cheap company in any way possible (they don't want to pay for pharmacist overlap, so there's a lack of floaters, leading to increased denied vacation requests and constant harassment to come in unexpectedly to cover an open shift). Expect a lot of take and no give. Expect to be made to feel like your job is at stake if, for example, your "text message enrollment" numbers don't improve. Expect a barrage of texts on your days off, threats to your job, and last but not least, expect to be extremely undervalued and to question at least once a shift if you're even a good pharmacist, regardless of what praise you've received from your patients, technicians, and previous employers. This isn't pharmacy, this isn't what you got your doctorate for, and this business model is detrimental to the sanctity of our profession.