Nope, Walgreens was the same garbage, hospital wasnt hiring, and mail order was cutting back. Like I said, I may have hated the company, I never complained about the pay, but i did do what I had to do to get by and make CVS happy and the patients happy. by the way, I live in clearwater where CVS and Walgreens are on every corner. Publix was still growing and I did not have Hospital experience. So I may have complained, but I still did my job until I felt that I could no longer do it.
Basically. the same issue here. Trying to find my way out. Still gotta pay the bills. Bouncing around alot of ideas in my head to find a way out.
My customers, techs, and fellow pharmacists all respect me to my knowledge. I'm friendly, people person, jovial, efficient (my verification times have been posted up as an example to other pharmacists), and I run around all day like an animal (i guess thats one positive thing I got from CVS...multi-tasking).
But nonetheless, I really hate CVS as a company. It doesn't make sense for me to quit arbitrarily since i have over 11 years with the company and lose my seniority.
I really do hope one day I go the entrepreneurial route like u did. People like you give me the hope to venture out myself.
As far as CVS managment (DMs, Rhms, emerging leaders)
The type r a dime a dozen. I've seen so many of them, some of them were my classmates. They got outta school, guns blazing tryin to kiss a** to climb the corporate ladder. I've seen these people tail these DMs trying to impress em while the rest of us laughed at how futile it is. First of all, most of em got absolutely no where and left the company to go kiss a** somewhere else while some got the "corporate job" and realized it was BS.
Anyone can be a DM. All you do is listen to the BS cheerleading crap that CVS upper management shoves down ur throat, then you repeat it, over and over again to people until you firmly belive it. Then when your pharmacists/techs question these practices, they just give you these "textbook" answers that they're spoon fed from there bosses. It's not even worth talking to them because i know the answers before it even comes out of there mouth. They are people with little to know self esteem that find some "purpose" by being a CVS DM. They're usually a mindless lump of a human being that can be molded to be a CVS drone.
The numbers (triple S, etc)
Rxnupe keeps bringing up how he/she will post his/her numbers. Honestly, those numbers don't mean anything. Everyone know that there are numerous ways to manipulate all the "numbers." Almost ever parameter has "cheats" to accomplish them. Don't tell me this isn't common practice. I've been around for awhile. Alot of these "cheats" are encouraged by management.
The numbers only mean one thing...parameters for bonuses. With the bonuses being greater and greater the higher your up on the ladder.