Sucks to be a Pharmacy Manager - Assistant Pharmacy Manager Publix Employee Review

2.0
Oct 3, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They offer good discounts on different things like travel, entertainment, home goods...Their stock options and retirement benefits. Good food options.

Cons

Pharmacy managers are now obligated to give presentations to our supervisors, outline and everything, on our department. We are given NO LUNCH BREAKS and are looked down upon when we are found sitting for a few minutes. We are now in flu shot season so we have to take time out of busy schedule to accommodate and promote this. Also, the hours for technicians have been drastically reduced as the workload has increased. Pharmacists in general are no longer in high demand and here in South Florida you can be easily replaced. That means you are not valuable to the company and they can afford to treat you unfairly. You didn't meet flushot quota? No raise for you. Can't work on every report right away? No raise. Go over on non-rph hours? Don't even think about it. We get visits from corporate every month-Hot Topics they call it. They stay in your store for about 2 hours asking you the dumbest questions and of course wasting your valuable time. They have phone tree messages for every email they send now...just in case you haven't read your email in the last hour. They also have a new clinic program where, of course, you have to come in about an hour early to test patients for diabetes and cholesterol. This too has a quota. Pharmacy has become such a disgustingly competitive business. In general, I feel like I'm wasting my time with this company.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Amazing 401K, free stock after one year of employment, health insurance is very good for part-time employees if only getting it for yourself, management always approves time off requests, hours are always available, will work around school schedules, tuition reimbursement program, will reimburse you for gas for work-related expenses as needed and will put you in a hotel as needed for work-related reasons that are more than 50 miles from your home.

Cons

Not every store is the same, some stores are run better than others, some managers look down upon people with disabilities, and some see people with disabilities the same as someone without disabilities, they are very big about favoritism, you have to work a lot to earn a vacation, the company does not give out sick time and full-time gets the most benefits and is next to impossible to get full-time. Also, you practically have to be a former employee with a clean record or related in some way to a current employee to get a job with the company though Kentucky Publix's don't quite function that way.

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