AlixaRx

A typical pharmacist shift was a mid-shift or evening shift. Only managers and a select few got 7-3 or 8-4 shifts. Attendance and tardy policies reminded me of a closed campus high school with no flexibility. Anyone more than 6 minutes late for a shift received a -0.5 point against them and a sick day was -1 point, even when you have tons of unused PTO. Then when you get -3 points, there's no bonus, transfer, promotions, pay raise for 12 months. Great for the company, horrible for the employees. Ask around and you find out that over half the staff is in that situation at all times. Management sends all communication via email and chooses not to speak to anyone personally. Technicians can make endless errors and can behave like children with no punishment but pharmacist errors and behaviors are closely monitored and can get you terminated. The atmosphere is similar to a small high school with gossip back stabbing, affairs, tattling, and overall lacks professional adult communications. You get a great amount of PTO, 21 days per year, but you can't ever use the days off because only 2 pharmacists can be gone at a time and days off must be requested a year ahead. The PTO also can not be rolled over or paid out, which would alleviate this issue. Bottom line, there are many other places to work that will pay better, provide a 401K match, better insurance, have better hours, and will treat you as a professional.

Let me start by saying what i liked about this place first. I was there for over 5 years  It was similar to retail but you dont have to deal with customers.  However, you do have to deal with nurses which are the customers. They have multiple shifts throughout the day and nights which is good for someone that can do nights. The pay was good. Here are the cons. Micromanagement is so bad there. People snitched on each other, back stabbing, rumors , etc.not a very pleasant work environment to work in once you’re involved in a he said, she said kind of situation. Managers dont seem to care and are the source of micromanagement. They treat you like a criminal by having other employees micromanage you, thinking youre going to steal meds or something. Also, Alot of favoritism going on there. I mean alot. If you’re willing to participate in micromanagement then they treat you a bit better so they can use you. I hated micromanagement and didn’t participate in it so i guess thats why they didn’t like me. Not enough help in customer service department so they expect other department like pharmacists to help out with typing orders, answering phone calls and other stuff. Because of the lack  of customer service techs, the customer service there was very bad. Alot of complaints from nurses and alot of facilities canceling service. This pharmacy is sinking fast unless they make some changes soon. 

The hours/shift is crazy. It’s NOT a set schedule. You’ll have scattered off days & work every other weekend. The work environment sucks(if your African American) one pharmacist there is very rude, he talks to new pharm techs crazy and he admits he’s an a**hole. The SUPERVISOR/PRESIDENT is the MAIN problem. He’s very arrogant, he’s rude, he doesn’t care about your personal life. He doesn’t like women. He talks to everyone like there nothing. Previous supervisor stepped down from the position because of how he treats her. She use to cry to us alll the time about him. He really gives people a hard time no reason. Just because you’re boss doesn’t mean you have to be RUDE! When I thought I had Covid-19 I told them & they still made me come in to work. They put all the other coworkers at risk. Luckily I still got tested & it was negative. Also they’re very under staffed. All new employees keep leaving because of the supervisor or the work environment. They have a high turnover rate. I loved the work I was doing but I couldn’t handle the work environment. 

Management is lacking, the environment proves stressful, and there's a notable absence of training plans for new staff. Operating without a proper training program is the standard. Overall professionalism leaves much to be desired, with older employees receiving preferential treatment for favorable hours. Despite assurances, the commitment to hiring additional staff consistently falls short. Adding to the challenges, turnover is high due to underpayment and widespread employee dissatisfaction. Store managers exhibit unprofessionalism, exacerbating the situation. Overtime is unavailable, yet most weeks demand more than the standard 40 hours!!!

This company is bad, if you work here never do extra work. Each year reviews are given but you'll only "meet expectations" even if you go above and beyond and help the other departments. They don't want to admit when people are doing more than just the job they signed on for because they do not want to give you leverage to ask for a raise. They will, however, put your name on a board as if you are a child in elementary school to say good job and if your name is pulled you get a mediocre prize instead of a fair pay adjustment. Management is pretty terrible too. There should be communication between the departments so the flow of work is better but that doesn't really happen. Everthing is redundant and unorganized. This company has a terrible turn over rate, don't bother learning people's names they will likely quit within a month. 

My typical day at work is 9 - 10 hours with multiple projects and tasks in play.

I learned about cloud hosting, networking, Citrix and Telecommunications in addition to our unique business model and medication dispensing.

Our management comes primarily from a Finance and Pharmacy background thus this proved challenging on IT endeavors.

Workplace Culture is pretty good except that everyone is in low-wall cubes so noise levels can be high.

The hardest part of the job was getting leadership to understand the complexity of technology and to make needed investments in technology.

Lots of unique challenges and chances to solve issues via technology.

I can't believe I have lasted over a few years with this company.  The only good that came out of it was it made me a stronger Pharmacy Technician because I was able to learn sterile compounding of IV drugs.  I would go above and beyond when my work was finished only to get reprimanded by management telling me "that's not your job".  Many times I was left to do things by myself because other employees shifts ended and they had to go home because of the "no overtime" policy.  Overall, it's a great place to gain pharmacy experience but get ready to be overworked like you're a machine!  The company wonders why the turn-over rate is so high, take a look at your management.

This is the worst place I have ever worked. 
Management doesn’t care about anything but yelling at you to make numbers. They won’t train you. I had a young girl train me that was more concerned about her weekend than showing me what to do. Management kept putting more work on people then everyone started quitting. A manager from another hub came and made everything worse. The benefits are awful. I might as well not have insurance. The computers freeze up all the time, the printers never work and nothing gets fixed.

the Company itself is new but not learning from past mistakes and experiences, in fact the pharamacy and all licenses is on probation.

The Atlanta office has a General Manager who only has credentials to be a Pharmacy Technician and does not have a degree!! 
its unfortunate that they have a Regional director that is racist, unprofessional, ego driven that has been reported to HR by several employees including upper management and nothing is done to correct his unprofessional, prejudice behavior but be promoted!!! 

Documentation was submitted on unfair treatment and harassment and still nothing is being done!!

Since the day I started work it has been nothing but drama and full on stress!  Starting from management! They only care about numbers. They dont worry at all about how stressed their employees are! It could be an easy job but we lack so much staff and management says we are over staffed and basically call us lazy! They dont realize how much work we do. You cannot depend on management to do anything for you. Its sad that the people I work with can only count on each other. We communicate better with each other than with management because they never seen to care about anything, if its personal or just work related.

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