CVS- Staying Late/Coming In Early

[josh6718]

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For those pharmacists that are salaried, do you ever go in early or stay late to get things caught up?

Reasons I don't want to stay extra:

1. Corporate just sees that as 'well they're still getting things done with reduced hours, so lets cut the more"

2. Techs start relying on the pharmacist to stay late to get everything done and thus in turn don't work as hard

Reasons I do:

1. I hate working in a complete disorganized mess and having customers yelling and screaming at you for prescriptions they've come back for and still aren't ready.

2. Job security- If other pharmacists in the district are staying over except for you, then it makes you appear to less of a hard worker.

 

[gwarm01]

Sounds like a bad deal. The best part about being salaried is leaving early and still getting paid.

 

[Digsbe]

I'd always thought working outside of scheduled hours is a liability for a company and is to be discouraged

 

[lord999]

For those pharmacists that are salaried, do you ever go in early or stay late to get things caught up?

Reasons I don't want to stay extra:

1. Corporate just sees that as 'well they're still getting things done with reduced hours, so lets cut the more"

2. Techs start relying on the pharmacist to stay late to get everything done and thus in turn don't work as hard

Reasons I do:

1. I hate working in a complete disorganized mess and having customers yelling and screaming at you for prescriptions they've come back for and still aren't ready.

2. Job security- If other pharmacists in the district are staying over except for you, then it makes you appear to less of a hard worker.

You officially can't in most West Coast states as you are required to declare work hours in the prescription signature log (even if not paid), so if you are willing to actually report your honest hours, the state will be fine but I'm not sure CVS would be. It's a liability risk for both CVS and you besides that.

 

[lane one]

For those pharmacists that are salaried, do you ever go in early or stay late to get things caught up?

Reasons I don't want to stay extra:

1. Corporate just sees that as 'well they're still getting things done with reduced hours, so lets cut the more"

2. Techs start relying on the pharmacist to stay late to get everything done and thus in turn don't work as hard

Reasons I do:

1. I hate working in a complete disorganized mess and having customers yelling and screaming at you for prescriptions they've come back for and still aren't ready.

2. Job security- If other pharmacists in the district are staying over except for you, then it makes you appear to less of a hard worker.

Been there, done that. Sucks bro but that's retail. I mostly did it for my own peace of mind. You can fight it based on principle all you want, but eventually self preservation takes over when you realize that working off the clock makes your life easier.

I'd always thought working outside of scheduled hours is a liability for a company and is to be discouraged

Haha I'm sure the official policy is to discourage it strongly, but when push comes to shove your ass is gonna be working off the clock.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

There's a reason they pay the most...

 

[mikejones123]

If you are behind around 7 pm....just say your system is down and send customers away...cvs system freezes alot...Ive never stayed a second late...could careless about the stupid metrics and intiatives which WE ARE NOT STAFFED for

 

[sosoo]

as a salary employee, you're expected to get things done. if u want to come in on time, leave on the dot, get a job that u can clock in and clock out.. ask the front store managers how they'r doing. do they work more hours than what they'r paid for? ask ppl in finance n banking. do they leave at 5pm, or stay til midnight? not that its right or wrong. it is what it is. get another job if u dont like it that lets u clock in clock out n get paid on the dot..

 

[lord999]

as a salary employee, you're expected to get things done. if u want to come in on time, leave on the dot, get a job that u can clock in and clock out.. ask the front store managers how they'r doing. do they work more hours than what they'r paid for? ask ppl in finance n banking. do they leave at 5pm, or stay til midnight? not that its right or wrong. it is what it is. get another job if u dont like it that lets u clock in clock out n get paid on the dot..

Because there are labor regulations about that in most states, this isn't the first time nor even close to the worst of it. Pharmacy is too regulated and from a QA standpoint, too risky, to actually be forced into finance hours (the Board will cite the pharmacy under this weird just culture doctrine if the work environment is judged excessive). For AZ, that's partly why Walgreens had to expand because they were getting basically a $10k per conference (pharmacist chewout) from the overwork (Express Scripts was under a similar geas as a mail order there for always being in trouble at those meetings). So no, not at all like finance. It's not for the pharmacists' piece of mind or safety, it's a public matter where excessive complaints against pharmacies will draw political attention.

A Board rarely prescribes man hours per prescription (most only have tech ratios if they do), but they do fine the company in an escalating manner (and usually gets the RxS fired) if a pharmacy is a continual problem before the board. (Those of you in Phoenix, that's why 7th and Hell was closed and 3rd and Hell built, it had drawn a $30k fine for various customer complaints, and a forced PIC removal which basically got the pharmacy to relocate as the volume was too much for the way that was built).

Also, that's not the way even finance handles it. If you are a desk or designated primary liquidity provider in the official sense, that's why the market has the hours it does to preclude dumb trades that banks would have to deal with in something called an errors fund (and in incredible cases, trade themselves out of business like Knight). It's only the research and analytic desks that work the crazy hours because they're not making the bank money directly like the market makers. The front line by regulation does not work crazy hours as the risks are too high.