Pharmacist job: not the best, probably not the worst - Staff Pharmacist Hy-Vee Employee Review

2.0
May 28, 2018
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Pros

I was lucky enough to have great coworkers. Health Insurance was affordable for a single person. The company network was a great resource for many questions. Computer software was easy to use and navigate.

Cons

I quit after working for the store 5 1/2 years. Pharmacy hours were not great. Our store was open 8-9pm M-F and was open 9-6pm Saturday and 10-6pm Sunday. I worked every third weekend and every 3rd holiday and closed a couple days a week. Holiday hours increased every year (now open 9 hours) and we didn't receive holiday pay. You only get two weeks of vacation and won't receive more until you have been full-time for 9 years. Management wasn't very receptive to staffing concerns. There was a lot of turnover for pharmacy technicians because they aren't paid very well, especially for the amount of responsibility that their job demands. It's a stressful retail pharmacy where they always want you to crank out more scripts while trying to decrease staff hours.

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Cons

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Pros

You get to constantly move around the store thru the different departments. Depending on the hours you work you can potentially learn how to do little things within each department, for example the deli or meat counters, which in turn opens an opportunity to get additional hours if needed when AOL doesn't have the business to keep all the shoppers shopping. Hyvee was always very good about giving you the opportunity to help in other areas of the store if your department was lacking hours or business to give you the full 40 for your work week.

Cons

The management/ chain of command often gets a little confusing as you have department managers, assiant managers, general mangers and a director. Often times I felt as if assiant managers sometimes gave different directions then the department manager would give almost condescending what you were told from your direct manager, but would fail to communicate with the department manager this info, causing conflict with employees being told to do it one way and then also getting asked why things were done that way after being trained to do it another way. Basically no communication by your assiant to the department manager causing internal conflict.

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