Pharm Tech Position - Pharmacy Technician CVS Health Employee Review

3.0
Feb 2, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* A great place to start for prepharmacy students * Lots of room for learning and growth * Flexible with shifts at most times * Great employee discounts in store and other benefits (ex. PTCB prep classes and materials are provided to employees for free and exam is paid by CVS)

Cons

* Difficult to achieve work-life balance at times. * The stress of working with adamant or rude customers * Pay could be better... * Training was the worst. There are training courses which introduce you to basics which was helpful, but I was told that an instructor would visit occassionally to do on site training which never happened. Working at a busy pharmacy, there's hardly any time for the pharmacists to give you training so I expected a more organized form of on site training from my trainer and was disappointed. I had to learned things on my own which was very difficult but the pharmacists and colleagues were great and always there to teach me new things and help. * Feels constantly short staffed (I work at a busy store). There's always something that doesn't get done and I voluntarily work overtime to help finish. There's a limit on the number of hours employees can work to stay within budget which always doesn't seem to reflect the work load and gets frustrating * High expectations from management

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Pros

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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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