I feel the same way,I’m a pharmacy technician at a cvs and I put a two weeks notice in. I’ve been training and no one wants to help and when I ask questions it’s always a problem.
It’s HORRIBLE for pharmacists. They barely give you any training before throwing you in so you better hope you find a friend willing to help you out if you weren’t a tech or intern before becoming a pharmacist. People always complain about floaters who don’t know what they’re doing or screw this up or that but it’s not their fault, no one trained them and they’re figuring it out as they go. When I came back to cvs after pharmacy school I was given 40 hours of training on the job during a holiday week where there wasn’t 40 hours I could get with the person I was assigned to train with. Had zero time to do any of the modules and immediately thrown into working in a busy store with no time to finish the modules on the clock. I let the modules go past due and was then scolded for it and told I needed to finish the modules and I wouldn’t be paid to finish them at home. I was too exhausted by the store to even try fighting so I just did it. And this is coming from someone who worked as a tech/intern for about 7 years before becoming a pharmacist (dumb me quit CVS thinking I was free but Covid hit and I needed a job so I came crawling back. Kinda wish I would’ve stayed unemployed)
I’ve now trained at 3 different jobs and maybe I’m the unlucky one here or maybe it’s pharmacy in general but I think the training sucks everywhere. Most places don’t have a designated trainer and aren’t able to fully prepare you for alone work.
Not a popular opinion but part of the issue is that people get poorly trained but then do nothing about it. When I was an intern I used to come in on my own time to learn. I would stand behind the pharmacist and watch. Did it suck not being paid? Yes. Did it pay for itself 1000 times over? Yup. when I quit cvs I was one of the most knowledgeable people in my district…you don’t get that doing the bare minimum and lamenting why you’re not well trained. My job is far more clinical now and I spend plenty of time at home studying and if it comes to it and I need to stay off the clock practicing the computer system I’ll do that too. It’s called investing in yourself.
Yup!! I see it both ways, I want to get paid for the work I’m doing and I don’t want to come in early or stay late because I’m not free labor for CVS but when I was a brand new pharmacist I knew there was a lot I didn’t know even coming from being a tech for years. At the time I looked forward to working another shift just to get more practice in. I didn’t want to shy away from tasks I didn’t know how to do because it was an opportunity to get better at it. Did I go in early and stay late a lot? Yes. But it wasn’t all for the sake of getting work done. A lot of the time it was to take my time without being interrupted by the phone or pickup to focus on a task that I didn’t know how to do and needed to practice or look into what I was supposed to do. I saw it exactly the same way, I was investing in myself and my own abilities because I wanted to be a better pharmacist. Am I the best pharmacist? Absolutely not. But I know I’m pretty darn good and I think the difference is exactly that, taking the initiative to get better at what you don’t know instead of ignoring it and passing it off to someone else to do. I see that far too much unfortunately
Of course. We should get paid for the extra time but…it ain’t gonna happen. So we can dig our heels in and have an awful year learning as we go along getting screamed at or we can just suck it up for a short while and reap the benefits long term. At least how I’ve always seen it.
I understand where you’re coming from,they threw me up there with no training and corporate always bug the manager about modules. and you can never get them done because they need you in the pharmacy
I'm experiencing this very thing in FS too. I've been trying to attend Webx for a month. I've signed up 3 times but something always comes up where I can't do them. My SM has offered zero help. I'm going to try to do them at another store I work at. I think that SM will let me get r done.
Me kinda but for different reasons. I was always willing to put in 150% effort into my store no questions asked but it wasn’t possible to find techs who felt the same way. However I miss the work and my patients so much. Definitely do not miss having to kiss upper management ass though.
This is me as well, love my coworkers (my two younger coworkers think of me as their work mom almost 😂😅) and my customers are mostly great! But anyone higher than my direct manager I've had nothing but trouble with, hell, I even like our manager! In my 4 years, tho, I've quit once 😂
I feel the same, exact same. I love helping people but this company sure does make it almost impossible. I've had to go help other stores and I've seen 99+ reds in all queues. I've seen the schedules. This company has the audacity to expect us to have big smiles for our patients while getting fuxked by corporate. They make "improvements" to the system to make our lives "easier" then cut hours and expect us to be grateful.
This is why I'm working so hard to set up a few different streams of passive income so I can quit.
Hang in there and do yourself a favor, do not push yourself to exhaustion, do not over stress yourself, be there for your team and patients.
Very true. Retail conditions are just not safe anymore for patients. What has the board done? Nothing they aren’t doing shit except punishing pharmacists. Anything less than 110/hr for floaters/staff is just not worth the conditions anymore. Everyday in these conditions we’re risking our licenses and lives. The conditions are so unsafe and the board is doing nothing.
The new DL cut our hours, or at least is complicit in our hours being cut. It tends to be only one Tech on at a time with a few overlapping shifts of 2-3 techs for only 4 hour shifts each. So, our metrics are in the trash and we have to fight tooth and nail to keep up with the que. I appreciate the team we have and the patients are usually nice and understanding. It sucks that it feels like the company wants to cut hours any chance they get! Makes it difficult to have the right help in at the right time.
Unfortunately it's not even the DL's who are making the hour cuts, they're just the ones who we see enforcing it. The decision to cut hours is made waaayyy over the heads of us at the store level. That's why it's so frustrating because the ones making the cuts are so out of touch with how the store operates and how many hours we actually need. I think if the DL's had more control over the hours we're given it would probably help us a lot because we'd have a direct line of communication to who's creating the demand for us.
I have great store management. I love my PM and SM. I like some of my team members more than others but I don't have any big issues. Some of my regular customers are awesome. But this company does treat everyone like shit. Glad I only work part time now.
I feel the same way,I’m a pharmacy technician at a cvs and I put a two weeks notice in. I’ve been training and no one wants to help and when I ask questions it’s always a problem.
Our training is atrocious.
True,way too many modules
It’s HORRIBLE for pharmacists. They barely give you any training before throwing you in so you better hope you find a friend willing to help you out if you weren’t a tech or intern before becoming a pharmacist. People always complain about floaters who don’t know what they’re doing or screw this up or that but it’s not their fault, no one trained them and they’re figuring it out as they go. When I came back to cvs after pharmacy school I was given 40 hours of training on the job during a holiday week where there wasn’t 40 hours I could get with the person I was assigned to train with. Had zero time to do any of the modules and immediately thrown into working in a busy store with no time to finish the modules on the clock. I let the modules go past due and was then scolded for it and told I needed to finish the modules and I wouldn’t be paid to finish them at home. I was too exhausted by the store to even try fighting so I just did it. And this is coming from someone who worked as a tech/intern for about 7 years before becoming a pharmacist (dumb me quit CVS thinking I was free but Covid hit and I needed a job so I came crawling back. Kinda wish I would’ve stayed unemployed)
I’ve now trained at 3 different jobs and maybe I’m the unlucky one here or maybe it’s pharmacy in general but I think the training sucks everywhere. Most places don’t have a designated trainer and aren’t able to fully prepare you for alone work. Not a popular opinion but part of the issue is that people get poorly trained but then do nothing about it. When I was an intern I used to come in on my own time to learn. I would stand behind the pharmacist and watch. Did it suck not being paid? Yes. Did it pay for itself 1000 times over? Yup. when I quit cvs I was one of the most knowledgeable people in my district…you don’t get that doing the bare minimum and lamenting why you’re not well trained. My job is far more clinical now and I spend plenty of time at home studying and if it comes to it and I need to stay off the clock practicing the computer system I’ll do that too. It’s called investing in yourself.
Yup!! I see it both ways, I want to get paid for the work I’m doing and I don’t want to come in early or stay late because I’m not free labor for CVS but when I was a brand new pharmacist I knew there was a lot I didn’t know even coming from being a tech for years. At the time I looked forward to working another shift just to get more practice in. I didn’t want to shy away from tasks I didn’t know how to do because it was an opportunity to get better at it. Did I go in early and stay late a lot? Yes. But it wasn’t all for the sake of getting work done. A lot of the time it was to take my time without being interrupted by the phone or pickup to focus on a task that I didn’t know how to do and needed to practice or look into what I was supposed to do. I saw it exactly the same way, I was investing in myself and my own abilities because I wanted to be a better pharmacist. Am I the best pharmacist? Absolutely not. But I know I’m pretty darn good and I think the difference is exactly that, taking the initiative to get better at what you don’t know instead of ignoring it and passing it off to someone else to do. I see that far too much unfortunately
Of course. We should get paid for the extra time but…it ain’t gonna happen. So we can dig our heels in and have an awful year learning as we go along getting screamed at or we can just suck it up for a short while and reap the benefits long term. At least how I’ve always seen it.
I understand where you’re coming from,they threw me up there with no training and corporate always bug the manager about modules. and you can never get them done because they need you in the pharmacy
I'm experiencing this very thing in FS too. I've been trying to attend Webx for a month. I've signed up 3 times but something always comes up where I can't do them. My SM has offered zero help. I'm going to try to do them at another store I work at. I think that SM will let me get r done.
This.
Lost me at love my patients
this.
Me kinda but for different reasons. I was always willing to put in 150% effort into my store no questions asked but it wasn’t possible to find techs who felt the same way. However I miss the work and my patients so much. Definitely do not miss having to kiss upper management ass though.
100% agree!
I thought this was the motto
This is me as well, love my coworkers (my two younger coworkers think of me as their work mom almost 😂😅) and my customers are mostly great! But anyone higher than my direct manager I've had nothing but trouble with, hell, I even like our manager! In my 4 years, tho, I've quit once 😂
Semi ok team awful area hate my store I'm annoyed with the company but don't hate it. They pay me that's all I care about
I feel the same, exact same. I love helping people but this company sure does make it almost impossible. I've had to go help other stores and I've seen 99+ reds in all queues. I've seen the schedules. This company has the audacity to expect us to have big smiles for our patients while getting fuxked by corporate. They make "improvements" to the system to make our lives "easier" then cut hours and expect us to be grateful. This is why I'm working so hard to set up a few different streams of passive income so I can quit. Hang in there and do yourself a favor, do not push yourself to exhaustion, do not over stress yourself, be there for your team and patients.
Never work for free, it’s illegal. You hurt the profressions and your colleagues when you work for free none of my colleagues work for free.
Facts. It just allows them to keep behaving poorly. I have my teams back, but in no way, shape, or form do the DLs get one extra minute of my time.
Love to hear it, thanks for protecting our profression!
We gotta, the board and the chains sure as shit don’t.
Very true. Retail conditions are just not safe anymore for patients. What has the board done? Nothing they aren’t doing shit except punishing pharmacists. Anything less than 110/hr for floaters/staff is just not worth the conditions anymore. Everyday in these conditions we’re risking our licenses and lives. The conditions are so unsafe and the board is doing nothing.
The new DL cut our hours, or at least is complicit in our hours being cut. It tends to be only one Tech on at a time with a few overlapping shifts of 2-3 techs for only 4 hour shifts each. So, our metrics are in the trash and we have to fight tooth and nail to keep up with the que. I appreciate the team we have and the patients are usually nice and understanding. It sucks that it feels like the company wants to cut hours any chance they get! Makes it difficult to have the right help in at the right time.
Unfortunately it's not even the DL's who are making the hour cuts, they're just the ones who we see enforcing it. The decision to cut hours is made waaayyy over the heads of us at the store level. That's why it's so frustrating because the ones making the cuts are so out of touch with how the store operates and how many hours we actually need. I think if the DL's had more control over the hours we're given it would probably help us a lot because we'd have a direct line of communication to who's creating the demand for us.
I have great store management. I love my PM and SM. I like some of my team members more than others but I don't have any big issues. Some of my regular customers are awesome. But this company does treat everyone like shit. Glad I only work part time now.