Low pay - high turnover -sub-standard company - Pharmacy Technician CVS Health Employee Review

1.0
Apr 3, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

They have a very generous vacation plan with up to 3 weeks off when you walk in the door. Perfect to use for finding another job.

Cons

The only reason to work at CVS would be as a stop gap measure until you find something else. No room for growth, salaries and pay raises are sub-par for a technical position. Don't waste your time and if you're already working at CVS, Get Out. Morale is very low and most raises are in the zero to 25 cent range depending on who you know, CVS is a multi-billion dollar company so there is no excuse for this. Especially, since they just spent almost 69 billion dollars for Aetna Insurance. One of their pharmacy plants in Pennsylvania tried to unionize but the employees voted it down by over two to one. Why? Mostly because of scare tactics by the company and employees going against their own self interests and or fearful. CVS did gave all of their employees a 1% raise because of the recent tax cut. I think most employees would've preferred a bonus because they won't be around long enough to enjoy that 1%.

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5.0
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Pros

WFH Bonus opportunity Pay raise based on merit

Cons

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5.0
Dec 13, 2014
Recommend
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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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