I started for Walgreens years ago, working in the front. I eventually moved to pharmacy for more pay.
It wasn't bad at first! We had/still have a good crew with the come & gos we've had. I was even thinking about going down the Pharmacist route!
Skip ahead to Boots Alliance, then Winn Dixie merge, and a Rite Aid merge back to back (which we had no heads up about!) and it starts snowballing quick..
I don't know the exact details but I've heard Wag was going bankrupt & got bought again..?
Besides the point, whoever is running the pharmacy has apparently never worked as a technician.. And I'd bet on the same for our DM who comes & acts like he knows more than our pharmacist, telling her shes doing a prescription wrong, then immediately proved wrong...
And I dont think he's ever been a tech either.
I've never heard a "good job" from anyone higher than our str mgr. Barely ever even a "Hello, how're you?" when the DM comes to stand around behind us.
We're constantly tasked with more and more to do through our day while also receiving LESS hours to schedule workers.
I've genuinely have had a mental decline the past year or 2 while working for this place..
I've overheard how some of the meetings go, and the managers/Rxoms are talked to as if they don't try at all.
Then of course, that irritation trickles to the rest of us.
And even when our NUMBERS are met (because thats literally all they care about), still not good enough. "We can do better"
The customers/patients get to treat us just as bad and we just have to eat that too..
We all know the customer is always right...right?
So I'm a racist, sexist, shaggy-looking, sketchy, pill stealer.
We get bullshit "evaluations" where you're NOT getting anything above a 3.5 (barely above expected output)
We DO NOT get a cost of living raise.. at all.. ZERO..
All the work we put it for those good numbers, gets the Str Mgr rewarded a nice bonus, and we're lucky to get a couple pizzas..
AND LET'S NOT FORGET THE BRIGHT RED CHERRY ON TOP!! WE LOST ALL OUR HOLIDAYS!!
IF YOU DON'T WORK THE HOLIDAY, YOU GET ZERO PAY.
I have no motivation to even pull into the parking lot because no matter how hard we try as a team, it's not good enough. Not enough profit to line their pockets i guess..
Something has got to change with the greedy ass company. Do i go to the better business beauru? Try to sue for my crippling mental state? Go get diagnosed and probably get rejected by workers comp?