CVS technician help

[bnd0389]

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Hi!
I was wondering if I could survey you CVS pharmacists and see approximately how many RXs you guys do a week and what your tech hours are. I am a Target --> CVS RPh and am worried about my tech's hours getting majorly cut after the whole transition is over. I know we are much slower at Target and am wondering about how many hours a store doing only 600 RXs a week would get. I appreciate any help/input!

 

[owlegrad]

I think there's a store in my district that does 800 a week that gets 35 hours.

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[bnd0389]

Yikes! Big difference. Sometimes I find it easier and more efficient to work by myself (less mistakes to fix and less chatting), but I worry about the tech's take home pay, etc. We will see how it all turns out.

 

[RPh Who]

I got 45 hours a week when I was working in a store that did 1000 a week in Las Vegas. This was a year and a half ago

 

[wagrxm2000]

How many hours do you have?

At 600 I imagine you do 100 per day and 50 on weekends. You should only need 1 tech from 9:30 to 6 (with lunch) and no one on the weekend so 40 hours.

 

[bnd0389]

I would say right now around 50 tech hours a week.

 

[bnd0389]

I am pretty competent at my job IMO and will be able to adjust, just kind of trying to see what kind of changes are in store.

 

[wagrxm2000]

To be honest I'm not sure why your pharmacy is still open. Your definitely losing money. Has your script count increased over last year?

 

[bnd0389]

Yes, but I would not say extraordinarily so. I know my store's script count is not unusual compared to others. Probably why the buyout occurred in the first place 😉

 

[NateRobinson]

You will have enough hours to get the job done provided you follow workflow and do the job the way CVS wants you to do it. We have something called mySchedule which determines how many hours each store has a demand for and it is alotted that way.

You will have enough hours. Every store I have ever been to has a good amount of hours. If anyone complains about payroll and "not enough hours", there is a 97% chance they're just lazy, not efficient enough or don't follow workflow, and a 3% chance that they are indeed right and that mySchedule had an off week.

 

[Chalupa_Batman86]

Try to follow workflow as best as possible. Hopefully, the rest follows through. I was in the same shoes as you, and honestly, the transition wasn't all too bad after a while.

 

[bnd0389]

Try to follow workflow as best as possible. Hopefully, the rest follows through. I was in the same shoes as you, and honestly, the transition wasn't all too bad after a while.

Thanks all for your help/advice! I run a pretty good pharmacy now sticking to Target workflow, and will absolutely make sure my team follows the new one. I worry about my hours getting halved and losing my great techs, but I guess we will cross that bridge when we come to it!

 

[ChalupaBatman86]

Try to follow workflow as best as possible. Hopefully, the rest follows through. I was in the same shoes as you, and honestly, the transition wasn't all too bad after a while.

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[sosoo]

you're in good timing now that flu season is over. when flu shots come back, you're expected to do flu shots, fill scripts, and ring people out at cash register. all of this by yourself with no techs on weekends. and answer phone calls.

 

[doublehh03]

You will have enough hours to get the job done provided you follow workflow and do the job the way CVS wants you to do it. We have something called mySchedule which determines how many hours each store has a demand for and it is alotted that way.

You will have enough hours. Every store I have ever been to has a good amount of hours. If anyone complains about payroll and "not enough hours", there is a 97% chance they're just lazy, not efficient enough or don't follow workflow, and a 3% chance that they are indeed right and that mySchedule had an off week.

Nobody uses MySchedule. The 3 stores in my district with 90+ WeCare still write their own schedules. They BS MySchedule to get the optiization number though lol. I don't use it for sure lol.

But to OP, yes your hours will be cut. It won't start until mid next year or so for Target stores to be treated like CVS.

 

[Chalupa_Batman86]

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