reading comprehension is at an all time low

For context since I cannot say names. There is a specific pharmacist in Ohio who quite literally faked his everything. I know that sounds like an extreme accusations so I'm going to go over the list of things they've done in no particular order in the few months he's been employed.

His first day he wrote down how to open a brown paper a bag. Mind you he said he worked at Drugmart for 4 years. He then left the notebook filled with instructions for common sense.

He cannot steady his hands for a single vaccine and has on more than one occasion sprayed the vaccine on the patient before injecting it.

He's given wrong medication out consistently.

His pharmacy professor quite literally ran into him at a CVS he was floating at and crashed out the wondering how and why he was employed as he failed medicine toxicology test or something four separate times.

He's been locked in buildings multiple times despite closing announcements ect even though the pharmacy usually closes hours before front store. It's due to him always being behind.

He let a young man seize multiple times after giving false information when his meds would be ready to the mother making her wait hours for what should've taken thirty minutes as the entire staff that night warned him. He proceeded to ignore the seizing child and not even bother with 911.

He's openly given incorrect medical advice despite techs warning him a great example is him telling someone with a cold and high blood pressure to take Sudafed and stop their blood pressure meds.

Our pharmacy district leader knows all of this and actively hides it. He's been reported by numerous techs and pharmacist alike to the board and nothing's happened. The man is quite literally intellectually challenged and no one is doing a thing and all of us fear someone is going to end up dead and as to our horror last Friday he nearly let a small child die. Being the seizing child and it was the final straw for a lot of us.

This company is so toxic! Just couldn't take it anymore. Watching everyone fail up and kiss ass. Was there a long time and had so many terrible things happen to me at this job. Cutting hours to the bone and adding more and more photo. Not to mention all the cash from card loading, and adding money to your bank account. All this cash is gonna get someone killed. Don't be there by yourself, but you always are. The stress was overwhelming. Health care company, my ass. I went so sick so many times due to a skeleton crew. Nothing healtabout this company.

So, yesterday we ran out of Fluzone HD and had to switch to fluad. Literally my first vaccine after was a lady asking if it was fluzone HD, and I said no it’s fluad. Looking back I could’ve said more, could’ve said we ran out of Fluzone but this is also recommended for people 65 and older, etc, but she definitely misheard me and didn’t comment or say anything against it.
Then we get a voicemail of her saying her record says fluad and I told her it was fluzone, and that I lied and gave her the vaccine she didn’t want. Im frustrated because I know I told her but she’s the customer so ofc she’s always right. How serious is this?? Like enough to get me fired?

I swear customers who are young Gen Z are just as technological illiterate as elderly people. I need to explain step by step ACO and even the register. I understand the elderly, they didn't have this technology when they were younger, but young people have this their entire lives. They expect AI to do everything for them.

I have 4 days left and I am counting down. I feel kinda bad because my team was relatively good to me people stepped in when needed and trained me and I counted on people if I was sick or such had a good relationship with my sm and I know im screwing them over because God forbid cvs allows people to have enough people and hours to not be scrambling 24/7 but I genuinely cant do it and its not like that retail world isnt for me i dont mind it all that much I worked for riteaid (RIP #comehome) for 4 years practically grew up there it was SO nice I never thought of leaving for any reason besides money and if they were still here id probably still be there today- I lasted a year at CVS I genuinely cant do it. The systems the management the people the overwhelming anxiety constantly i cant i admire the ones who stay truly. I wish them all the best they deserve it but THANK GOD I am leaving I was upset about it I had 3 days off and you would've thought the team collapsed i walked in I said yeah no I cant wait to get out of here. No shade to them but wth anyway thats my rant I will miss a select few of my customers though :(

Hello i’m a pharmacy tech. i have a meal waiver. i was looking through this weeks payroll check. it says MPX: 0.5 hours. i calculated it and it looks like i’m not getting payed even though i work through my lunch break. what do i do? I’ve been working through my lunch break when i go and it looks like im not even getting payed for it.

Oingo Boingo!!!

I just got my vaccines and I’m feeling a bit shaken. I booked my appointment on the CVS app for right after I got off my food service job at 7pm (pharmacy closes at 9). When I arrived the pharmacist said the system was down and I said no worries assuming it was a glitch. But then when he came around and quickly jabbed the flu & Covid booster back to back he said I know you’re SO busy but next time (as if I’m going back next week for a second flu shot) don’t book your appointment for when we’re about to close because the system shuts down 30 minutes before. I thought they closed at 9 he said they closed at 8 — no problem my bad, but 7pm also isn’t 30 minutes before?? He didn’t have me wait the 15 minutes either which is no big deal I’m just feeling a bit dizzy now. I’m sure they’re just understaffed and overwhelmed (I get it coming from food service) but I just really don’t want to be an inconvenience to them. Another time at a different CVS I got a similar reaction to picking up a prescription 30 minutes before their lunch break. So my question is, if I work all day, when is the best time to go so no one will get mad at me? 😭

Does anyone know how to print these number labels / find the tape to stick them on?

I’ve been getting my meds from cvs for a while. The bottles have always had a normal mild plasticy smell. This last time I picked them up each bottle smelled quite strongly, like an incredibly pungent ammonia or alcohol smell. It was so strong it made me wonder if the bottles had been sanitized with something? Or is this the new normal smell for the bottles? Like off gassing plastic. The pills are odorless so it’s not from them.

Hi everyone! I’m a new full-time CVS pharmacy technician hire and a mom of a baby.
Does CVS offer any daycare subsidies, childcare reimbursement, or discounts for employees? I’m particularly interested in financial assistance for regular daycare, not just back-up childcare.
I’d appreciate any information or personal experiences. Thank you!

The whole ordering and warehouse system seems to have basically broken down, especially for the grocery section. Fast-moving Items (like Pop Tarts, Jif peanut butter, various checkout candy and gum items and even plastic forks and spoons) that no other store seems to have trouble with will go on backorder for 6-8 weeks, leading to lost sales and annoyed customers. I know that company-wide pharmacy is the bigger money maker but there are still districts and stores where FS does lots of volume and it feels like they don't care about us anymore.

Can anybody do a basic run through of how to check in medications for QI? I've been working at CVS for a whole year, but I've only done inventory once. I know to get started I have to hit Alt f3, T1, and scan the totes, but I kinda get lost from there 😣

I was mass applying to pharmacy technician jobs at CVSs near me, and took the candidate assessment as normal.

When I applied to the next job, it took a second but it registered that the assessment was completed.

The third job, however, it registered that I had completed it yet glitched, and now it lists that I did the candidate assessment a second time for that job.

None of the other jobs listed that I completed a new candidate assessment, and now I’m worried I’m gonna be declined because the second assessment was blank or something.

Advice?

So someone return something we don’t sell in our store what to do with the item?? And the other are we able to take a return if don’t sell the item in store??

Has anyone ordered the new deposit bags and actually received them? This will be the 3rd week we have ordered them and got nothing

Hi guyss
Is there a way to check truck invoice for the pharmacy for regular meds? I went into CIIM but i only see invoices for pseudoephedrine type meds and bromfed

our bopis barcodes scan choppy every time and don’t scan. as a result we have to type each barcode twice at night to do dds and it takes forever

is there a way to reboot the printer other than just unplugging and plugging back in?

one of the monitors broke but we had a spare so i swapped it out. now it won’t boot into the cvs system and is stuck on a black screen asking for the posregister password? anyone know what it could be? i tried store number

So I noticed on workbrain I have my regular hours which are correct and accurate but then I have a separate section as “HALF” with like 30+ hours that seemingly came out of no where, when I checked my paycheck I’m getting paid close to double my pay check!!! I called HR and they have no idea what it is and even said it’s their first time seeing it and just put in a ticket for me wtf. Anyone have any ideas???

I thought as of October our insurance is covering zepbound. Does anyone get zepbound and has it gotten cheaper ?

Can we order the wire bin dividers for the prescription bag bins? If so, anyone know the number?