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You will be expected to work at a level 10 frenzy of stress and misery while trying to type prescriptions, fill prescriptions, verify prescriptions, all while you have anywhere from 1-10 calls simultaneously ringing, shipments to check in and put away, lines of customers up to 30 feet long, and the expectation to give vaccines. Do you think you could do this with 3 technicians? How about 2? No? How about 1? HOW ABOUT ZERO? Regardless of the store's prescription volume, you will always have half of the staff that the job requires. The staffing shortage has been absolutely crippling for years, and we were completely dumbfounded to find out that now, during the busiest part of the year, staffing hours have again been cut. So here that means most stores have 1 to 2 technicians working when 5 are actually needed. As a result, quality of service and safety are almost non existent. How would you like (on top of having an already miserable life courtesy of your employer) to have your license suspended for a safety violation when it was really the fault of your employer who provided absolutely none of the logistics required to do your job correctly and safely? Don't be surprised if it happens because I can't tell you how many stores have expired drugs on the shelves, misfills, incorrectly billed prescriptions, misfiled documents, controlled substance inventory errors, mistyped rx's and so on. It is a daily occurrence. And it is compounded by constant quitting. People are always quitting because it is so miserable, so you always have new and inexperienced people working, hence an even greater propensity for errors. And don't think the state boards of pharmacy will do anything. We've tried. They sit firmly under the thumb of cvs. Anything they ever (extremely rarely) do is just for show and changes nothing. Most of the time they simply won't respond.

Any pharmacy school that doesn't caution their students about cvs is negligent. But because many of them are, I am speaking out to make sure you know that this company will ruin your physical and mental well being, your relationships, your career, your happiness, and your life. Share this with everyone you know. Under no circumstances should any of you ever work for this company, and absolutely never financially support this company by having prescriptions filled there.

CVS has been a fucking nightmare for getting my mom's cancer medicine so I believe this.

Everyone involved in the medical system is a scammer or a psychopath or both, it’s the scummiest industry in the US

>dont wagecuck
thx for the forewarning fren

>>53191327
>I put pills in bottles and hand them through a McDonald's drive up window for $65/hr

>>53191327
not your personal blog retard

>>53191327
>oh no i have to stand up for 10 hours a day
you are a faggot that should never reproduce.

>>53191327
>>53191334
>>53191348
Fine Speech

Out of curiosity, is Walgreen's about the same? And yeah, this doesn't surprise me, but I've never thought about it before OP.

>do you have any questions for the pharmacist?
No. My doctor answered all of my questions. I don't have any questions for the chef at Wendy's either. Medicine in America is a mess...

The company I think in a decade or so will go bankrupt, someone else (possibly Amazon) will take over pharmacy. They have the money but don’t like fully staffing pharmacies. It’s disgusting.

>>53191348
>>53191334
>>53191327
I agree with "fine speech" Anon. Fine speech and thank you for making it. I'm sure it doesn't hearten you to know that this is the business model of the *entire United States.* I haven't worked in a single business that isn't doing what you're describing. The real problem is that these medications and their records are a matter of physical and mental safety and even death.

People's lives are at risk. CVS using this business model is FUBAR.

>>53191327
>I don't know any pharmacists in this company who have not had to take antidepressants or anti anxiety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBOjtlaRUpc

>>53191334
>HOW ABOUT ZERO?
kek

>>53191449
Walgreens is bad, CVS is terrible.

I got covid after pharmacist filled my adderall prescription what are the chances they spiked my addy with covid bug pathogen creature?

>>53191486
the day amazon starts mailing drugs is the day they truly take over the world

>>53191379
Those sort of wages are a thing of the past, sadly. Pharmacist pay is about $45/hr and declining. They expect you to work a ton of unpaid overtime, so the real wage is closer to $30/hr. Also, pharmacists have a lot of student loans (I owe over 300k).

>>53191510
Saved. Thanks anon

>>53191591
Amazon already owns Pillpak, a mail order pharmacy.

>>53191493
When I started, the district manager told me that there is a guy I should try to emulate. He had me work 3 shifts with him because he was the fastest pharmacist in the district. I later learned that he also had the highest error rate and put multiple people in the hospital from med errors. CVS is beyond fucked up.

>>53191327
America sounds like hell on earth.

>>53191327
>>53191334
>>53191348
Extremely based. I already knew they were shit based on how often openings for their warehouse positions pop up, yet they continue to mandate that all employees must be vaccinated even in states that have taken official stances that is a personal liberty issue and protected by HIPAA. I may just buy a couple put options on those faggots since their ticker is the same as their name, just for you.

>>53191707
Thank you for listening.

>>53191764
You're very welcome fren. May your next job not be at such a soulless hellcorp.

>>53191327
You are describing every job. Unless you are part of some make work scheme funded by printed money you are overworked and underpaid.
Just shut the fuck up and give me my drugs. I can look up the imprint to make sure it is correct.

>>53191353
Same, i believe.

>>53191617
Wtf? I make that much and I'm a miner, just high school.

>>53191415
This, suck a dick faggot op.

>>53192197
>>53192412
this, git gud and stop whining.
[laughs in uncircumcised]

nah ser, its the vaxx that fucked you

>>53191680
Send help. Please.

>>53191327
are you one of those fuckers that denies ivermectin prescriptions?

>>53191327
Literally all you have to do is pee in a bucket soak your feet in your pee and they’ll rejuvenate. And rub your urine on your knees. I open hand punched my car window a while back… and after like an hour it really started getting sore and I ligaments or tendons were seemingly kinda messed up. Urinated like 10 times in a pot… held my hand in the urine for like an hour. Totally fine after that. No soreness or anything today.

>>53191353
>>53192683

Heals cancer too drinking it

>>53192696
k, good luck with that

>>53191327
sounds about right. kek.

t. CVS corporate accounting wagie

>>53192765
>>53191327
btw did you see karen's $250/$500 wagie bonus email?

>>53191486
never gonna happen. also the real money maker is the pharmacy services segment, not the retail segment.

>>53191379
>>53191617

30/hr? My wife just started working at CVS and was considering going into the pharmacy, but she was told she would only be making $17 instead of $16 like entry level makes.

>>53192830
pharmacy technician != pharmacist

>>53191617
Not correct. I am involved in hiring pharmacists and $60,000 sign on bonuses and 63-65$/hr is the normal here in the Midwest. 70-80+ on the coasts. You're just not able to move and work for the worst 3 letter of them all.

>>53192872
Well they've been low on people there too. Between what I've seen in others and how she works, it's basically just one person per department and maybe one manager that does nothing. Wouldn't be shocked at all if CVS goes under in five years or even before Walgreens.

>>53192978
>Wouldn't be shocked at all if CVS goes under in five years or even before Walgreens.

retail storefronts? maybe, but i doubt it. CVS as a whole does pretty well. brick and mortar is a miserable proposition, true of any business. also their poor treatment of retail employees isn't so much an act of desperation as an act of "because we can."

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>>53192978
case in point is the OP, a guy with a doctorate in pharmacy getting stressed out and running himself ragged because mr. shekelgruber might yell at him. CVS is treating retail employees like shit because the wagies allow it.

being a pharmacist seems like it would be really fucking annoying to me. Just getting harassed and interrupted by retarded old fuck boomers all day long and them spamming the phone

>>53193163
Lol yeah if you want to argue with old people it’s a great profession. It has definitely improved my small talk though, ultimately I’m making six figures, parents paid for school, can’t complain

>>53191327
>>53191334
Thank you for this. Yeah, it looks like a job from hell I'd never want to be a part of it honestly

>>53192696
true, contains over 2000 chemicals including antineoplastons

Just like, work less hard, sit doen every now and then?

>>53191354
Basically this.

>>53191327
i used to work at corporate and they do the same shit there

>>53191486
bullshit unfortunately. they own a health insurer, a pharmacy insurer, and the pharmacy. roughly the business makes over $1 billion EBITDA per month.

Lol imagine going through pharmacy school thinking you're going to make bank, but you end up becoming a gigawagie that is basically an Amazon warehouse operative handing out antibiotics. Sad!

>>53191327
Line cooks stand this long, what’s the problem? Also pharmacy is a job that could be outsourced to an excel sheet. I predict pharmacy to be one of the first jobs done completly by AI and a few $11 dollar an hour techs. Cvs is garbage though

>>53191327
lmao, I knew a pharm d. He needs knee surgery cuz they don't let you sit.

>>53191327
>>53191334
Can confirm, but it's true of any pharmacist really. I'm fren with a pharmacy owner. If she "only" work 110h/w she consider it a win.
Does she make big bux? Sure, but this is not a life.
I can't think of wagies being more miserable than pharmacists. The work is profoundly debilitating, you are the poorfags of the supposed higher-middle class, you have to deal with schitzos, hypochondrifag boomers and retards ALL the time. At risk of getting robbed by reckless metheads looking after your subutex. All while selling overpriced poison to desperate ppl.
And the humiliation farce still going on with masks and PVC glasses...
Standing still all day, no breaks, no respect from your colleagues or the doctors.

This is all so soulcrushing and unfulfilling. It's a mix between being a mall cashier and a slaughterhouse worker. But you work at least x2 longer hours in a constant brouhaha of bips and tel ringing while everything smells like bleach.

At least, they can pride themselves of being among the most productive workers out there. If only 15% of the world was working as hard as pharmacists, the 85% remaining wouldn't need to work a day in their life.

>>53191327
hey man i hope you realize 99% of the medical industry is a scam. doesnt matter who you are working for, they are all evil. insurance is ruining peoples lives not cvs.

>>53191591
You're late, that's already started. They kept emailing me about their new e-pharmacy and to sign up for Prime deliveries of meds

>>53194945
Guess who owns the insurance companies and the PBM’s

>>53191510
Camomile tea fucking shut my anxiety down.

>>53191327
pharmacist has to be the biggest joke of a profession ever
you just look at a piece of paper them toss a couple pills in a cup
yet somehow it takes you 45 to do that AND you get paid 6 figs for it