They Do Deliver a Paycheck to Your Account - Pharmacist CVS Health Employee Review

2.0
Jan 19, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Reasons to work as a CVS pharmacist -You're homeless/starving to death -You're debt in up to your eyeballs with no other job opportunities -You actually like punishment (you hate yourself/sadist) -You hate going to the bathroom and eating food. -You enjoy running a 300+ Rx/day pharmacy by yourself. But....they do give you a paycheck that is on par with the rest of the industry.

Cons

-No staffing (I mean, these poor techs are paid 12/hr; can we not have more than 2 at a time?) -No meal breaks -PTO is garbage (1 week after a year of service) -No staffing.... - Management/company absolutely does not care about its employees. Everything they do revolves around their stockholders bottom-line. The second it becomes profitable to put someone on the street, they're gone. -Equipment is outdated/ barely functional. System occasionally crashes for 2-6 hours at a time, where you have to apologize to customers the entire time while not getting anything done...so that you can get yelled at by the PIC for not staying until midnight trying to catch up. -Constantly being threatened with losing your already painful job if you don't perform on metrics/make calls. -Being forced to apologize for your crap-company's lack of staffing because someone has came back for the third time and their Rx is still not ready. -"One pharmacy call....One pharmacy call....Lane 1.... One pharmacy call..."

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Pros

I learned a lot working there as far as how to run a business as well as how to develop a team. I had one of the most successful teams in the company ranking as the top store year over year in two separate markets, one in the Northeast one in the Southeast. I was a paragon winner with the company as well. My most recent DM was very supportive. I genuinely thank them for the opportunity and the knowledge that I acquired while working with them.

Cons

Work hours were excessive. To be successful hours worked were borderline slavery. While I willingly worked them to be successful, the week you didn't you were immediately behind. Vacations were almost non existent due to constant visitors from corporate stopping in to do reviews. Holiday weeks were paid 4 days regular 1 holiday and you worked all 5. The facade of the stores looking great when these people stop by versus the reality of the business is polarizing. There were always teams of people and excessive expenditures of payroll thrown into stores prior to their visits. While I understood the need to make an appearance, it was always will always be a backwards way off thinking. Company preaches quality of life for their clients while quality of life for their employees is non-existent. As a "manager" in your average store you will be "managing" a total of one person during your shift, with a total of 10 people at location. Location open hours will exceed total payroll hours ie Sun-Sat 7am-10pm = 15hrs per day x 7 days x 2 people = 210 hrs which excludes the need to have a person unload deliveries that come in during non opened hours. Your budgeted hours will be approximately 208 hrs. I will only mention that during the month of December that there are extended hours for the stores but no budgeted hours to accommodate. Stores are held to strict shrink targets with little to no control over external theft. Remember 2 people at location, if four people enter to steal there is nothing you can do to stop them. These are facts not personal prejudices.

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