The worst job I had - Pharmacy Technician CVS Health Employee Review

1.0
30 Apr 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Clean facility, nice and quiet, safe environment, great automation concepts, reasonably priced lunch at cafeteria, easy job, good benefits. not the best pay-scale, factory is usually located in depressed area so employees don't have other choices.

Cons

Fascist culture, no flexibility, power hungry supervisors, worst HR department I've have seen promoting prison culture of snitching under the disguise of team work and reason for safety and zero errors. Workers are conditioned to act and compete with robots while showing fake smiles. Two tear policies, a flexible one for those in the click and nepotism, and the highest standard one with zero tolerance holding feet to the fire for everyone else. Employees are written up based on investigations results of false accusations, just shy of final warning to be fired, lead tech thinks of themselves as God gifts to their subordinates and they are as or worse abusive than the nasty supervisors. While some employees appear to be happy about their job, they can quickly tell you how miserable their work situation, once they gain your confidence, there is no human connection to the employees by their superiors. Even with the benefit of discount purchasing at CVS stores, employees are over paying for items, since most items are overpriced.

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5.0
4 Jul 2026
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Pros

Great place to work with really amazing staff. Working in downtown Charleston gives you the opportunity to interact with a ton of different people.

Cons

The store can get VERY busy at times.

5.0
13 Dec 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I learned a lot working there as far as how to run a business as well as how to develop a team. I had one of the most successful teams in the company ranking as the top store year over year in two separate markets, one in the Northeast one in the Southeast. I was a paragon winner with the company as well. My most recent DM was very supportive. I genuinely thank them for the opportunity and the knowledge that I acquired while working with them.

Cons

Work hours were excessive. To be successful hours worked were borderline slavery. While I willingly worked them to be successful, the week you didn't you were immediately behind. Vacations were almost non existent due to constant visitors from corporate stopping in to do reviews. Holiday weeks were paid 4 days regular 1 holiday and you worked all 5. The facade of the stores looking great when these people stop by versus the reality of the business is polarizing. There were always teams of people and excessive expenditures of payroll thrown into stores prior to their visits. While I understood the need to make an appearance, it was always will always be a backwards way off thinking. Company preaches quality of life for their clients while quality of life for their employees is non-existent. As a "manager" in your average store you will be "managing" a total of one person during your shift, with a total of 10 people at location. Location open hours will exceed total payroll hours ie Sun-Sat 7am-10pm = 15hrs per day x 7 days x 2 people = 210 hrs which excludes the need to have a person unload deliveries that come in during non opened hours. Your budgeted hours will be approximately 208 hrs. I will only mention that during the month of December that there are extended hours for the stores but no budgeted hours to accommodate. Stores are held to strict shrink targets with little to no control over external theft. Remember 2 people at location, if four people enter to steal there is nothing you can do to stop them. These are facts not personal prejudices.

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