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I accepted a Job offer from Walmart Pharmacy as a Technician. I'm licensed and registered with the state board of Pharmacy.
Before obtaining my credentials, I started with Publix as a bagger in 2013, eventually making cashier and then being trained (Nov.2014-Present) for Pharmacy Technician. Our pharmacy fills around 750-850 scripts per week. I make 8.80 an hour here in FLA, and they bounce me around from customer service to pharmacy. I work every Tuesday and Thursday and every other Sunday (10-20 hours) and I pick up the rest of my shifts on register listening to people tell me about their day.
Not anymore.
Since our pharmacy was slow, we were only allotted 60 tech hours/week, with two other techs picking up shifts from other stores. I didn't receive proper training because we're understaffed, both pharmacists regularly complained to me about how the other techs didn't know how to do anything (and neither did I, because instead of being shown how to do something I was shoved on pick-up or drop-off so the pharmacist didn't have to). Our PSE sales were off the chain, and our customers lined up one after another to purchase the stuff. We are severely inefficient.
Being at Publix part time = no guarantee of hours, obama care, no vacation, no discounts, and regularly being harassed by managers about going over your hours and getting your hours cut the next week because they called me in to cover some one else's shift. It also means that, just because I am registered with the board and work in the store's pharmacy, they don't have to change my job class, and they didn't. They kept my job class as cashier so they wouldn't have to give me a raise (Tech's make 9.55 minimum). The worst part was not even a month before I obtained my licensure I was told in my eval that once it came, they would change my job class and as result give me another raise. Two months later... nothing... This has been going on for 6 months.
So within a 7 day period, I applied at online, got called in for an interview, and unofficially hired on the same day by Walmart (my official hire date is the 23rd, when they called me in for orientation, Walmart waits for the drug and background screening to come in before they call it official).
Walmart hired me on at 10.40 an hour, and 11.60 after my 90 day probationary period, where they will also pay for me to become nationally certified.
Pharmacy closes for a 30 minute break.... What?! I've pulled ten hour shifts without a single 10 minute working for Publix. I will also get health insurance part time, a guaranteed 32 hours a week, 10% discount card, and 34 hours paid vacation.
And people are so brain-washed that Publix is the end-all be-all of retail supermarkets. They are abusive and outright lie to their employees on a daily basis. "We own it"? more like, "They own us"
Before obtaining my credentials, I started with Publix as a bagger in 2013, eventually making cashier and then being trained (Nov.2014-Present) for Pharmacy Technician. Our pharmacy fills around 750-850 scripts per week. I make 8.80 an hour here in FLA, and they bounce me around from customer service to pharmacy. I work every Tuesday and Thursday and every other Sunday (10-20 hours) and I pick up the rest of my shifts on register listening to people tell me about their day.
Not anymore.
Since our pharmacy was slow, we were only allotted 60 tech hours/week, with two other techs picking up shifts from other stores. I didn't receive proper training because we're understaffed, both pharmacists regularly complained to me about how the other techs didn't know how to do anything (and neither did I, because instead of being shown how to do something I was shoved on pick-up or drop-off so the pharmacist didn't have to). Our PSE sales were off the chain, and our customers lined up one after another to purchase the stuff. We are severely inefficient.
Being at Publix part time = no guarantee of hours, obama care, no vacation, no discounts, and regularly being harassed by managers about going over your hours and getting your hours cut the next week because they called me in to cover some one else's shift. It also means that, just because I am registered with the board and work in the store's pharmacy, they don't have to change my job class, and they didn't. They kept my job class as cashier so they wouldn't have to give me a raise (Tech's make 9.55 minimum). The worst part was not even a month before I obtained my licensure I was told in my eval that once it came, they would change my job class and as result give me another raise. Two months later... nothing... This has been going on for 6 months.
So within a 7 day period, I applied at online, got called in for an interview, and unofficially hired on the same day by Walmart (my official hire date is the 23rd, when they called me in for orientation, Walmart waits for the drug and background screening to come in before they call it official).
Walmart hired me on at 10.40 an hour, and 11.60 after my 90 day probationary period, where they will also pay for me to become nationally certified.
Pharmacy closes for a 30 minute break.... What?! I've pulled ten hour shifts without a single 10 minute working for Publix. I will also get health insurance part time, a guaranteed 32 hours a week, 10% discount card, and 34 hours paid vacation.
And people are so brain-washed that Publix is the end-all be-all of retail supermarkets. They are abusive and outright lie to their employees on a daily basis. "We own it"? more like, "They own us"
