All TARGET Techs Opinions Please

[Nerdd13]

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hey all,

I'm thinking about taking a tech job at Target and I know Target does a lower volume script count than CVS (where I currently am). the Pharmacist told me she only does about 80-ish daily!. My question is, for those of you working at Target, regardless high-volume or low, do you like the company? pro/cons?

When it is quiet, do the pharmacist let you stand around? do they ask you to do returns? stock OTC? etc..etc. I'm tired of CVS which is the reason I am leaving; also I can be with a company with more pt. interaction. oh yes, and I am not applying to pharmacy school, so experience for that matter doesn't count for me.

Any info will help me decide. thanks!

 

[Rumplestiltazepam]

When it is quiet, do the pharmacist let you stand around?

Cool question

 

[whitedc5]

Cool question

I'll second that.

 

[BADD281]

I too work for CVS but I have to question why your "tired" of the company? Granted, script count is usually higher and alloted technician hours are lower than other chains, but the company has very competitive pay and benefits.

I have a very close pharmacist friend who gave me great advice when I was getting ready to transfer to Eckerd. He said that if you were to take all chain pharmacies and put them into a burlap sack, shake them up for hours and throw them all on the floor you probably couldn't tell enough difference to tell which was which. He worked for CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Target, Eckerd and Rite-Aid. He was probably the most brutally honest individual I had ever met and I really took his advice and stayed, which I am really glad I did. CVS tends to stay really consistant, and the system is really more organized now than its ever been before.

If you want to just stand around and do nothing then maybe you should think about working for a cinema or something? 😀 In all seriousness, you will never find a pharmacy where your just doing nothing; and if you do happen to find one its probably a safe bet that it won't be open very long. Good luck!

 

[confettiflyer]

c'mon there's always things to do in a pharmacy, are you kidding me?

1) dust the shelves
2) face outs
3) cycle counts
4) fold bags if you use them at your store
5) clean the pill counters
6) clean the keyboards
7) C-II inventory (RPh only)
8) doctor calls
9) follow up with patients
10) pulls/expired/etc...

yeah ok, have a clerk do 1, 2, 4, 5, 6...but really, if you don't want to do anything, go work at the movie theater.

I actually worked at a movie theater in high school...it was great, but i smelled like popcorn all the time =(

 

[BADD281]

Now I have to go get some popcorn! HaHa

 

[steveysmith54]

Nothing wrong with wanting to just stand there and chill. Thats my dream. I'd go to work at a movie theater if it paid as much as RPh. I don't like it when there are 5 people waiting to pick up drugs and and 5 waiting to drop off a script.

 

[BADD281]

Nothing wrong with wanting to just stand there and chill. Thats my dream. I'd go to work at a movie theater if it paid as much as RPh. I don't like it when there are 5 people waiting to pick up drugs and and 5 waiting to drop off a script.

But what you have to understand is that if those 5 people here and 5 people there weren't around you wouldn't be getting paid those big bucks in the first place...its all about the customer.

 

[aniflora]

I too work for CVS but I have to question why your "tired" of the company? Granted, script count is usually higher and alloted technician hours are lower than other chains, but the company has very competitive pay and benefits.

I have a very close pharmacist friend who gave me great advice when I was getting ready to transfer to Eckerd. He said that if you were to take all chain pharmacies and put them into a burlap sack, shake them up for hours and throw them all on the floor you probably couldn't tell enough difference to tell which was which. He worked for CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Target, Eckerd and Rite-Aid. He was probably the most brutally honest individual I had ever met and I really took his advice and stayed, which I am really glad I did. CVS tends to stay really consistant, and the system is really more organized now than its ever been before.

Yeah, I have to agree with you. I've worked with Walgreens, and now I am at CVS and very happy there.

 

[Rumplestiltazepam]

And I am sure someone could come on here and say they are happy at Target or some other company......a couple people saying they like or dislike the company doesn't get anyone anywhere. You have to do the research and decide for yourself if you are happy where you are at and know what about a particular job makes you happy or unhappy so when you look elsewhere you know what you are looking for. Because in the end what I am looking for in a job may not be the same as what you are looking for.

 

[AngelaCL]

My bosses let me sit around and do nothing or do homework if everything has been done (occasionally, like tonight, the store has been swept, pill counter cleaned, counters wiped, pens/keyboards/mouses/phones cleaned, paperwork filed, garbage taken out, expiration dates marked through December 2008... really nothing much to do!). However, I hate just standing there! So boring! Tonight I dusted, even though I wasn't asked to, and I found some really nasty dust bunnies in places obviously no one has ever checked in the years the store has been opened. *gag*

If you want to just sit around, be a bank teller - they don't make that much less. I seriously hated being a teller at a slow bank because I never had anything to do and there was a cleaning crew at night so I couldn't even mop the floor or anything to amuse myself. I read books if the manager let me, and made giant rubberband balls and checked the weather obsessively (only website we could go to) if they didn't. Seriously... I would type in random zip codes and see what the weather was like there. So boring!

 

[Nerdd13]

I am "tired" of CVS b/c I have been with this company for 4 years and it is time for a change. plus, I would like better pay. When you start low with CVS, your pay barely increases at all. I'm starting Grad school fall 2008, so i'd like continue to work in a pharmacy for now to save up some extra cash. My Store does 300 + daily so a transition to Target which is a Low volume store, would bore me to death. Which is why I asked "what do you do when there is no scripts to be filled" It's not because I want to stand around. I hate that which is why I am debating, But hey, if Target pays me more, I'd do it for the time being.

 

[PointBreak]

yeah when you finish doing everything and it's late at night and it's slow....just turn the tv on and watch some NBA games!

 

[oink2655]

I enjoy working at Target since it's more hands on and you get more input with the way the pharmacy is run. The pharmacists treats everyone as equals (even the techs). Pretty much every one contributes to the pharmacy like throwing away the trash, dusting the shelves when it is close. Keep in mind that even though Target does not do as many scripts as other pharmacy, the store is very busy so you have to help alot of guests. On the downside, there is only one pharmacist and one tech at all time (except for mondays) so everyone keeps busy the entire day. I used to work at Rite Aid and I hated it there but I am happy here at Target..except for the fault that my wardrobe is now mainly red and khaki = P

 

[bucket of karma]

target offered me 5$ more an hour than cvs. (i was hired at both). i have only been there two months, and the store just opened when i started... that was kind of cool, but the first few weeks were boring as hell. thankfully, they let me bring my homework in for me. especially since i have been taking on extra hours to help out for the delinquent tech who got fired.

the computer system is older than dirt. and they tried to tell me that if i worked a 6 hour shift i HAD to take a half hour break, i didn't like that, but we worked it out that i work a 5 hour and 55 minute shift instead. hooray!

i love the people i work with, i love the innovations they have come up with for dispensing. i have more time to learn because it is not so busy, but if you do not want to go into pharmacy, i don't know how helpful that will be.

the discount is nice too, and they offer discounts at some other stores and the gym and whatnot. i think target is a fantastic company, and i am much more impressed with them than i am cvs. there is more opportunity to speak with patients and develop relationships than at a store that is super busy.

there really is only one person who can decide for you, and that is you. but for what it is worth, i work at target and i wouldnt change it for anything.

 

[GoTeamVenture]

I worked at Target for 5 years, quit to go to pharm school. Don't know if I would be willing to go back. The idea of trying to sell people credit cards when they come to pick up medicine is a little underhanded and effed to me. Management hounded us constantly about asking patients to sign up for a Target credit card. The idea of it is almost absurd.

 

[bucket of karma]

i never ask people... i only offer rewards enrollment if they already have one. no one has ever said anything to me about it.

 

[GoTeamVenture]

You're fortunate. We actually had 3 pharmacists from 2 different stores quit because of the issue (requiring techs AND pharmacists to solicit the credit card at every register transaction). They were PSYCHO about it at the store I worked at. One of my fellow techs got yelled at (in front of patients) by an STL that was standing nearby when the tech hadn't asked the last 3 people that came to the register.

 

[Toomeke]

Nothing wrong with wanting to just stand there and chill. Thats my dream. I'd go to work at a movie theater if it paid as much as RPh. I don't like it when there are 5 people waiting to pick up drugs and and 5 waiting to drop off a script.

If you don't like actually "working" with people you're in the wrong profession.

 

[BADD281]

I am "tired" of CVS b/c I have been with this company for 4 years and it is time for a change. plus, I would like better pay. When you start low with CVS, your pay barely increases at all. I'm starting Grad school fall 2008, so i'd like continue to work in a pharmacy for now to save up some extra cash. My Store does 300 + daily so a transition to Target which is a Low volume store, would bore me to death. Which is why I asked "what do you do when there is no scripts to be filled" It's not because I want to stand around. I hate that which is why I am debating, But hey, if Target pays me more, I'd do it for the time being.

300 scripts a day?? Thats considered high volume? My store used to do over 900 scripts daily Mon-Fri. with about half that on Sat. and even less on Sun. However, we have lost a little business during Mon-Fri and we are averaging 700-750 now...i guess thats why I just cant understand the concept of just "standing" around.