Target Pharmacy Manager worth it?

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I have an interview coming up for a position as Target pharmacy manager. This particular store does around 500/week they said. I was wondering if anyone could share their experience as a Target pharmacy manager. Is it worth it? I have been a regular staff pharmacist for the past few years since graduation for both Kmart and Kroger at stores that do around 1000/week. I had never thought about being a manager ever until now when a position opened up in the nearby area. What additional responsibility do you have? If offered the position, is it normal to be nervice about being fully in charge of everything. Any thoughts, comments, or experiences would be greatly apprecitated.

Also, a couple additional side questions.

What is their vacation policy like

How is the computer system? is it windows based? everything barcoded and scanned?

Originally Posted by Dutt1113

I have an interview coming up for a position as Target pharmacy manager. This particular store does around 500/week they said. I was wondering if anyone could share their experience as a Target pharmacy manager. Is it worth it? I have been a regular staff pharmacist for the past few years since graduation for both Kmart and Kroger at stores that do around 1000/week. I had never thought about being a manager ever until now when a position opened up in the nearby area. What additional responsibility do you have? If offered the position, is it normal to be nervice about being fully in charge of everything. Any thoughts, comments, or experiences would be greatly apprecitated.

Also, a couple additional side questions.

What is their vacation policy like

How is the computer system? is it windows based? everything barcoded and scanned

When I rotated there this time last year, they just fired the pharmacy manager, who was my preceptor, after my first week. They offered it to the other Rph on staff at the store. She said they offered her no extra pay, but she'd have to be on the POA to order C2s and she'd be responsible for their metrics. Don't know the other benefits (vacation, etc), but it didn't sound like anything more than the regular staff would get. They're still using PDX, which is serviceable, but one of the more outdated programs I've used.
Not sure if this helps coming from an outsider, but I'm not sure how many Target staffers or PICs we have.

Originally Posted by Dutt1113

I have an interview coming up for a position as Target pharmacy manager. This particular store does around 500/week they said. I was wondering if anyone could share their experience as a Target pharmacy manager. Is it worth it? I have been a regular staff pharmacist for the past few years since graduation for both Kmart and Kroger at stores that do around 1000/week. I had never thought about being a manager ever until now when a position opened up in the nearby area. What additional responsibility do you have? If offered the position, is it normal to be nervice about being fully in charge of everything. Any thoughts, comments, or experiences would be greatly apprecitated.

Also, a couple additional side questions.

What is their vacation policy like

How is the computer system? is it windows based? everything barcoded and scanned?

Nope, not worth it. Working at a slow store does not mean you have more time to manage because you are using a computer that takes five times longer to fill a prescription versus CVS computer. Oh, no barcode or prescription scanning by the way

Vacation policy is typical 80 hours so if you work 42 hours a week and 10 hour shifts, that only gives you eight 10-hour days off. Also when you take vacation and have to use rph on the go, that will count against you, not only because you have to have a tech all day, I think if you use extra pharmacist hours that also count against you. I'm not sure how that pharmacist hours work for sure yet. I hope you didn't take the job