Walmart Staff Pharmacist Hours Cut

[yahksah]

I heard Walmart staff pharmacists got their hours cut from 40 to 24 hours/week! 🙁 Is it pretty easy to float and get 40 hours despite the hours being cut? Walmart stores are further apart; Do you get paid the miles between stores if you pick up a shift? Are the hours a set 8 hours per shift, so you can work a double and pick up an evening shift if you worked the morning at your home store? Also, is the PTO based on hours worked or your base salary?

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[Son_Goku]

That sounds a little extreme.

I surmise this is only occurring at certain locations.

 

[Momus]

"You heard"

Come back when you confirm it.

 

[zelman]

I heard Walmart staff pharmacists got their hours cut from 40 to 20 hours/week! 🙁 Is it pretty easy to float and get 40 hours despite the hours being cut? Walmart stores are further apart; Do you get paid the miles between stores if you pick up a shift? Are the hours a set 8 hours per shift, so you can work a double and pick up an evening shift if you worked the morning at your home store? Also, is the PTO based on hours worked or your base salary?

Lowest salary position is 24hr/wk. PTO is based on your base hours. You don’t get paid for travel time if you’re salaried.

 

[jjcayce123]

Lowest salary position is 24hr/wk. PTO is based on your base hours. You don’t get paid for travel time if you’re salaried.

I have friends that worked for walmart throughout school and they were at best offered floating positions of around 10-20 hours a week. One of the pharmacists that I work with at my hospital used to work nights or weekends every once in a while at walmart. He said he ran into his old district manager and apparently that is what they are doing now. Hiring floaters and they dont have to pay benefits.

 

[RxPal]

Where I work, it’s rare for staff pharmacists to get templated for 80 hours per period. It’s considered lucky if they can maintain 72+ hours. On some days, they are only allowed 4 hours per shift, which sucks for people who live an hour of drive time away. The company is putting more pressure on staff pharmacists to help build business, a nearly impossible task in our supersaturated market with a pharmacy at every corner. If upper management thinks the pharmacy is not meeting the goals (setting ridiculously higher every year), it’s just a matter of time before the managers and staff pharmacists will be pressured to step down and become floaters.

 

[Lnsean]

How are you gonna float when there are like 2-3 stores in a 30 mi radius. Walmart's management must have hired some head hancho from Walgreens... This is directly out of Walgreens playbook... Make a bunch of your employees hungry for hours and you have so much leverage over them. The pharmacists at Walgreens can't even sneeze right now without apologizing to management or writing up an action plan.

 

[Chrish]

They don’t hire any new staff rph with 80 or even 72 hrs anymore. The max you can get is 64 base hr position but even that in a rare case. 8 our of 10 new staff rphs are offered 48 hr positions.

Need 80 hr? Gotta be a manager. No way around it.

 

[ranger99rx]

I heard Walmart staff pharmacists got their hours cut from 40 to 20 hours/week! 🙁 Is it pretty easy to float and get 40 hours despite the hours being cut? Walmart stores are further apart; Do you get paid the miles between stores if you pick up a shift? Are the hours a set 8 hours per shift, so you can work a double and pick up an evening shift if you worked the morning at your home store? Also, is the PTO based on hours worked or your base salary?

You do get paid for mileage from your home to other stores if you are a salaried staff pharmacist. Floaters do not get paid for mileage if the stores are within their POD, if the store is outside of their POD or from different DM's district then they will get paid for mileage. I haven't heard about the staff pharmacist's hours getting cut at neighborhood market or Walmart in my area yet...probably coming soon. At Sam's club in my area they just eliminated all overlap hours and so staff pharmacist have to pick up extra hours at another store or reduce base hours. You can pick up extra hours at Walmart, Neighborhood market, or Sam's. Shift are not set at 8 hours if it's a low volume store, but at high volume store usually 8 hours or less. At Sam's club usually10 hours shift and Neighborhood market 12 hours shifts. I rarely pick up extra hours at neighborhood market since they have plenty of floaters and part-time/prn pharmacists. I do pick up extra hours at Sam's clubs near me since they have only 1 floater that only wants to work 10ish hours/week.

 

[gwarm01]

Sounds like they are trying their best to put the pharmacist on the same level as every other associate in the store. That's the level of respect they have for you.

 

[BMBiology]

"You heard"

Come back when you confirm it.

Rumors are just pre-mature facts. Buy on the rumors. Sell on the news. You should know that as an investor.


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[pencilandpen]

Sounds like they are trying their best to put the pharmacist on the same level as every other associate in the store. That's the level of respect they have for you.

pharmacists are at the bottom of the totem pole especially in metro areas where theres always 10 pharmacists lining up to take an open position

 

[PharBeyondDriven]

The chains are pushing and it's time to push back. We need to unionize, or even better, start your own independent and compete with the chains directly.

 

[sozetone]

I heard Walmart staff pharmacists got their hours cut from 40 to 24 hours/week! 🙁 Is it pretty easy to float and get 40 hours despite the hours being cut? Walmart stores are further apart; Do you get paid the miles between stores if you pick up a shift? Are the hours a set 8 hours per shift, so you can work a double and pick up an evening shift if you worked the morning at your home store? Also, is the PTO based on hours worked or your base salary?

I am a walmart pharmacy manager, yes it's confirmed we are cutting (everything storewide and nationwide) to different degrees. It depends on your S3G hours and your volume and sales. My 3rd staff was just cut for the second time.first from 80 last year to 56, (2 week) then to 45 now. Most locations sales and script count are dropping, due to loss of 3rd party contracts. Look on outcomes that matter on the wire and see how other stores in your market (or other markets) are performing. And no, the shifts will typically not be 8 hours, but yes depending on your distance, you qualify for travel and usually food reimbursement. check with your MHWD. I dunno about PTO, mine was set at 4 weeks annually when i was hired..

 

[sozetone]

Rumors are just pre-mature facts. Buy on the rumors. Sell on the news. You should know that as an investor.


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I am a wal mart pharmacy manager. YES we are cutting everything from store level to pharmacy. Just google "walmart restructuring". It's been going on for about 2 years now. Getting bad now. Pharmacy is cutting nationwide in different amounts, in different locations, depending on script volume and sales/profit and your S3G hour allotment. IT IS CONFIRMED.....

 

[sozetone]

The chains are pushing and it's time to push back. We need to unionize, or even better, start your own independent and compete with the chains directly.

I like your enthusiasm, however you should know starting an independent at this point would probably result in failure. They would crush us like a bug.

 

[sozetone]

They don’t hire any new staff rph with 80 or even 72 hrs anymore. The max you can get is 64 base hr position but even that in a rare case. 8 our of 10 new staff rphs are offered 48 hr positions.

Need 80 hr? Gotta be a manager. No way around it.

I am a wal mart manager and this is mostly true. I have a seen a few 72 hour manager spots however. I think its due to them changing the times of operation ya know? closing at 8 or 7 even instead of 9?? i dunno, but its getting bad out there

 

[sozetone]

I haven't seen any existing 72 or 80 hr rphs who were directly forced to step down to a lower hour base. What I have seen happening is they would be offered to pick up few shifts at other stores if they want to keep their hours but if they decline, then they will be moved to lower hr bracket. They just don't offer any new 80 or 72 hr positions. So, if your store has staff rph who was 80 hrs salaried and left for whatever reason, then the person replacing him/ her will be 64 or 48.

No, it depends on your script count/sales and profit. If you are a high volume store AND you make $$ they will leave you a little slack to keep producing dollars. There is no set rule for how much they cut and where or when. They still have 80 hour staffs and they have 72 hour managers. I have seen this. That said however, most stores nationwide are losing money/volume/rxcount. Since thats the case the money losing stores will be targeted the worst and get the biggest cuts. That's just simple economics.