Walgreens or Omnicare?

[walgreen123]

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I am a staff pharmacist, with a nice manager and hardworking techs and only 10 minutes from my home. Most of my days go by fast and easy, sometimes I have bad customers, but last week had some extremely stressful days and angry customers. Got an interview for Omnicare. I read about Omnicare from this forum, it sounds like a very boring place to work, sounds like a dead end. I wouldn't mind sitting all the day, but would like to get something to strengthen my resume for future job, such IV, TPN, etc, something I wouldn't practice in retail. The schedule also bothers me. In my store, I work 5 am shifts, 3 pm shifts, 2 weekends. And in Omnicare, sounds like most shifts are 12 to 9 pm, my husband would not like it. However, if Omnicare experience can help build my resume, he may tolerate for a year.
Is Omnicare better than Walgreens if my purpose is to build my resume?
If I stay with Walgreens, I probably will be just staff pharmacist for ever, and trying to get into Kaiser or hospital outpatient.

 

[deleted820760]

Walgreens is better than zombicare.

 

[PharmDBro2017]

Avoiding the general public and broadening your experience sounds like a win to me, especially if you are looking to get out of retail. Seems like an obvious choice to me, but I’ve only worked at a competitor of omnicare. Unsure of how crappy it is as omnicare...


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[deleted462159]

It sounds like you already know you won't enjoy Omnicare (boring + bad schedule). Re: broadening experience... If you just want the name on your resume, for whatever reason, yeah sure you can do it for a year or two. But if you're looking to grow, move up, etc. ask yourself how motivated you'd be doing a job you hate. Does that boring experience even lead to the types of (hopefully, less boring) jobs you want?

 

[walgreen123]

Is it possible to work at Omnicare, but keep per diem for Walgreens? so that I can easily come back to Walgreens if Omnicare doesn't work out. I had techs who work at our store and also at other long term care pharmacy (not Omnicare). I do like my store, most of time, but sometimes, the heavily stressful time made me want to leave. I have never worked in other places besides Walgreens.

 

[owlegrad]

I don't know specifically about Omnicare vs Walgreens but I can for sure tell you that LTC beats retail hands down no comparison. And in LTC you get IV experience plus you work more closely with nurses and physicians so I have to think it is better for transitioning into hospital than retail.

 

[pillpusha]

I would say stay at Walgreens. I have previously worked for Omnicare. They were bought out by CVS and operating under CVS as of Jan 2017. My Omnicare was a 24 hours location so we had all types of shifts. We had the option of doing 4 10 hr shifts during the week. My schedule varied from 12 pm - 11 pm, 1 pm - 12 am and sometimes 4 pm - 3 am when the graveyard pharmacist took a day off. In terms of IV experience, I never really handled the IV or TPNs since they had 2-3 pharmacists designated for those orders. I probably could have played with those orders if I requested. My main duties involved sitting in a desk, verifying snf orders and calling md/nurses at various facilities for clarifications. Overall, I would say life there is easier than retail since the only complaints will be coming from nurses, but I wouldn't recommend it since there is not much work/life balance. The schedule is very random since we got it 2 weeks at a time and the days were never consistent. Hope this helps.

 

[Lnsean]

if i had to sit at a desk for 10 hours straight just being a human bar code scanner...i'd off myself with the nearest sharp object

 

[CetiAlphaFive]

Walgreens is better than zombicare.

Says the person who's never worked corporate retail

 

[deleted820760]

Says the person who's never worked corporate retail

I’ve worked corporate retail, and I hated every minute of working at CVS. I liked the actual work of a retail pharmacist, but I hated the stupid PCQ calls, the focus on meaningless metrics, and the 14 hour shifts with no time to eat or use the restroom. They also made my PIC go on his days off to various places to give immunizations.

 

[Charcoales]

O Lord 2-9 is the worst hours possible but w/e I guess if your SO works same hours