certified pharmacy technician

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pharmacy technician

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Brookshire Brothers

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I started working at a branch of Brookshire Brothers, B&B Foods, because my step-dad's best friend was the manager and knew I was looking for a job. I started the end of my junior year in high school.

The first month was okay. I was still getting used to how everything worked and it was my first job, so I didn't want to get too upset about anything. The only thing I really had a problem with was standing for so long because it hurt my back, but I got used to it after a few weeks.

That was when my coworkers started calling in all the time for every little thing that went wrong in their lives. It was summer, so I'm pretty sure they were just blowing work off. One person even called in for an ear ache! I would come in so I could make more money and ended up having to work six days a week (I would have worked all week if it weren't for the fact that we couldn't have more than 40 hours each week). 

Then my manager offered me a promotion to work in the office so that I could work my way up to assistant manager one day. I gladly took the offer and he said we'd get started on training me that Saturday. Well, that Saturday rolled around and we never got to it because it was a busy day. He told me we'd do it Monday then. Monday came around and I didn't get trained. So then he told me he'd call me when a good day came around to train me. He never did. I brought it up again the next week and he said we'd have to wait for a bit.

I was getting tired of being lied to about being trained for the office position (they'd lied to me for over a month) and coming in every day for my coworkers. I had requested three days off one week so that I could go to Galveston with my family for vacation and had been told that it was fine because I'd requested the time off two months in advance. When the time came, they scheduled me to work two of those days, claiming that I had requested two days earlier in the week off. I had to fight with them to get them to change the schedule (they almost didn't change it until I MADE them bring out my request off form to show them I had requested 3 days off in a row) and I got my days off. 

Then, when I got back, with no warning, I started being scheduled to work the petro booth (the gas booth) every single day instead of doing half the week as a cashier inside and half in the booth. I asked about it and they said the reason they did that is because I was one of the only people who didn't complain about being in the booth, but I felt they were being dishonest with me. It was at this time that my managers started being rude to me, making sly comments about how I'd fought to get my vacation days off. I started getting ridiculous complaints from people I'd never met before - one even said I had completely ignored them at the petro booth, refusing them service, which I never did. My managers wouldn't listen to me and I was pretty sure one of my managers was the one who put those people up to complaining about me.

So I stopped coming in for people and doing favors for coworkers. That's when they cut my hours - to TWO days a week, EVERY weekend, EVENING shifts. I had requested morning shifts, so I knew they were doing this on purpose, in retaliation.

I thought about quitting so many times, but there really weren't any other jobs in my small town and I liked having a little extra money for myself.

About a year and a few months into the job, the assistant manager was out for two weeks because she'd overdosed on a prescription. She came back for a week and then was out for another two weeks for overdosing again. I guess someone complained about her drug use because they ordered drug tests for every employee at our store. It was a random urine test.

About a week later, I get a call from my manager saying that he had to fire me because my drug test was positive. He said he didn't know what it was positive for and that I'd have to call the lab to find out. I knew I'd tested positive for hydrocodone because I had a prescription, so I thought that's what it was and that I could fix it. I called them and they told me that I failed for hydrocodone AND marijuana. This simply wasn't true. I had smoked before, when I was younger, but I didn't then. I told them to test it again and did some research online to find that many different things can make you test positive for marijuana - poppy seeds on hamburger buns, ibuprofen, and more that I can't remember right now. I take ibuprofen on a regular basis because I get migraines and it helps, so I figured that's what made me test positive.

The lab called me back to say I'd tested positive the second time around and when I told them I'd taken ibuprofen on a regular basis and that could have caused it, they said it didn't matter. So I got fired for taking ibuprofen and now have a failed drug test on my record forever, which made it nearly impossible for me to get hired on anywhere else.

Trust me when I say DO NOT WORK FOR BROOKSHIRE BROTHERS OR ANY OF THEIR OTHER BRANCHES!!!

Working in the deli on the second shift is on for the faint hearten.
The near six months I have worked there has went down hill rapidly, I will have to go in at 2pm start cooking chicken right away instead of doing the food temperatures( which should be the first thing done) then cut onions and tomatoes instead of cleaning the fryer pot's which should have been done by the first shift people before they left.then make salads and sandwiches for the next day, fry hamburgers, prep anything else that needs to be done, ( all the while serving customers) there should be three people working every night, we normally have two and we are expected to get all the closing work done plus handle customers fry chicken make all the other food and keep dishes done floor clean windows washed and dining area clean with two people, we do this nightly and complain a lot, the management team does nothing about it. We all feel the management is very inconsiderate and unhelpful, there is not one store manager that can come into the deli and do what I do, I feel all management should be able to do my job so well as me in case of an emergency. How can they dictate to me my job when they have know idea what I'm doing?
Coworkers are not team players and causes a lot of tension in the deli.
The first shift people leave a mess for us to clean and don't do a lot of there things before they leave, leaving it for the second shift to finish, according to the management ( just get it done )
I have learned to train the new hires on the night shift, from the first thing that is to be done to the last thing before calling the manager to check us out at the end of the day, and how to depend on themselves not the management. It's very important to keep yourself safe and always put the customers first. The hardest part of the job is the non stop lifting 50 lbs+ all day and night.
The most enjoyable thing is talking with the customers and giving them the best service I can. ( there are some most wonderful people out there).

Your experience working for brookshire brothers depends largely on your manager. I used to be decently satisfied with my job here untill we cycled out my  old manager and got a new one who was very strict, but inexperienced manager. We had to bring more managers and office personell onto the schedual per day and this resulted in the cutting of hours for cashiers and stockers to compensate for the massive amount of labor cost caused by the higher payed people being schedualed more. I was supposed to be moving into the office at my store which was supposed to come with a raise. My old manager was the one who facilitated this for me and was going to fight for my raise, but instead, now, i recieved no raise and have been pushed to the side in the office. I am forced to work as a checker and a stocker at the whim of my managers, and because i am one of the best workers here and am willing to work as many days as possible because i need to pay for a truck i just bought,  the schedual me wherever they want, often making me stay at the store stocking a shipment to between 10:00 and 11:00 PM only to have to wake up early the next day and get there at 8:00 to work on the next shipment by myself because they wont schedual any more stockers. As much as i complain about this, it wouldnt be so bad if they would just give me a raise from $8.00/hr and a break every now and then but they wont. Overall i am dissatisfied with my employment at Brookshire brothers and i would only recommend this company as a short term job while you look for something that pays better.

Honestly, not a lot of great stuff to say about this company. You do get to work with some fun people, I loved a lot of my coworkers, but your management is not flexible. Unless you are IN a management position you are not treated very well, and even lower management does not get treated well. Pay is abysmal compared to other companies within the area.

Overtime is prohibited/looked down upon for all departments even if you are allotted it. If you are looking for PTO or vacation hours, you do not get them for at least a year into the job, and you only get about a week of vacation hours to use. This number does increase over following years, if you make it that long. Sick days are not a thing that exists here if that matters to you. Employees do not have a designated break room or designated restrooms and must share with customers.

The building itself is not in super great shape. A remodel was done back in early 2023 that fixed most of the floor problems. Constant ceiling leaks spring up during bad weather, which has lead the ceiling and insulation to fall in several places. I worked several different positions here in two departments, absolutely would not recommend working here. You will get treated better probably just about anywhere else.

My typical day of work consists of helping the managers get breakfast started before we open and cook my production for the hot case most of the time clean up what’s left from the “clean up crew” which sometimes wasn’t even cleaned at all than I would keep my hot case full for about 2 hours until I start frying chicken at lunch I would make a huge batch and we would get lunch out I would alway help get it out aswell but would do most work and ride the rest of my day out frying chicken out for the line and cooking hamburgers and occasional being up serving food. I’ve learned that some people can take advantage of you if you’re selfless and have motivation and more culinary skill. Management was terrible they would hire people with no experience and let them have a better paycheck when they would either take constant smoke breaks or find things to do to get out of there job and put it on the cooks production people or the line workers it’s just terrible. Not much culture it was like a skeleton crew most of the time. Hardest part the supervisor would let customers insult you throw things at employees or anything you can think of and they don’t do anything about it running it all as a cook was also hard dealing with the management was hard aswell it was just a complete mess. I did enjoy making good food for people and taking care of my customers and cooking was fun aswell but that’s really it 

Fast paced due simply to a massive workload and a lack of staff. Trainees either quit due to high expectations or are fired for little to no reason by managers. Work is often done by only two people running what is effectively a small restaurant, and the evening workload is overwhelming; which is not helped by the fact that the morning shift often leaves work unfinished or uncleaned but the blame is put entirely on the evening shift. Breaks are technically required, but extreme limitations on time and staff necessitate working nonstop for the entire duration of the shift.

Pay is higher than most other store departments, but is still inadequate for the level of work performed and is unable to support a financially independent individual. Other forms of compensation simply do not exist for most employees, and managers often treat employees with suspicion when trying to request time off or have to call in sick.

Management is plagued with miscommunication and dysfunction, despite select store managers being very amicable to their employees. Department manager quality varies considerably, and departments are plagued with extreme favoritism to the point that department managers work to undermine disliked employees.

I am currently still an employee at this grocer and been working here for 3 years and dont get me wrong, it can be a fun and wonderful place to work when not under stress. However now I cannot say the same.  Now it seems that you would get overloaded with jobs that would obviously require more than one person, or having to pick up slack where we are short staffed. Right now at my store, management is so focused on cutting hours,not is starting to become harmful to my life outside of work and including school at times ( I'm a college student). Also  when you are hired on, you dont just get to work what you've applied for but you have to be a jack of all trades working the store and I become so tired from the consistency of bot wanting to fix the cutting hours and short staff, its beginning to affect me physically and mentally.  Management can be a pain and not care of your overall health or any life issues that may need to be token care of. There is a lot more to my story but I'm going to stop it here. If you want to work here, be prepared to be overworked and little pay. Other stores may be different but my store is not worth anyone losing their minds. It is sad to say, I loved this  job in the beginning but now has become a nightmare and I'm glad I'm leaving in a couple of months because I'm transferring to another university.

What is the best part of working at the company?
They have the best people working in an environment that is amazing.
The training you get will take you to other jobs with the staff always helpfull and good people.
The management are amazing people and my regional manager done most of my training as a meat market manager and was a patient man with the skills to make it easy to learn and always treated you as a person and not a number.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
As far as stressful I can't ever remember any stressful times there and I worked at two different markets that was 25 miles from eachother. One was busier than than the other but was enjoyable not stressful by no means.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment was as good as it gets.
The culture of the company was a caring and compationate company.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
My typical day started by checking in with the store manager and then checking my meat cases and finding out what needed to be cut and put out for the day. Then making sure the management had everything they needed to finish the rest of the evening until the store closed and I came in the next morning.

The job was easy, once you got to know your way around.  But there was a manger that was ready to get onto the workers about anything and everything.  If you called in, the manager would change the time for the following day you were suppose to come in, so that you would get in trouble for showing up late.  Which is against company policy if it is within 48 hours.  And a lot of my coworkers would sit there and argue with guest because they weren't happy.  If this anything was reported to higher management or head quarters, nothing was done and the deli manager would get onto you again about something else.  Training takes time, but we still got in trouble for the first time a 
mistake was made, even though we weren't taught.  My manager also lied behind not only my back, but my other coworkers.  Such as that customer didn't like the way you were treating me (the manager), even if nothing was said to her.  Or she would "cover" our shifts if we called in sick.  Come to find out, she never covered our shifts.  The manager would also talk about other workers from other departments and made fun of one of our bag boys behind his back because he was developmentally disabled.  It was awful place to work and I wouldn't recommend this place.

Pay was decent; however, health insurance was high and offered very little coverage.

One day you are the 1st Asst. with bonus potential etc. The next day you find someone else is now getting your bonus and has taken the 1st Asst. position with no explanation or performance counseling to justify the action. 

Often individuals were transferred to different locations with the assurance they were being laterally transferred; however, after reaching their new location, they were placed in a position of diminished capacity.

There were some very dedicated people in the rank and file. They had to be; many had not received evals or raises in over 3 yrs. I know one manager in particular that had not received a raise in 7 yrs.

Hardest part of the job was dealing with the good ole boy culture as it definitely impacted pay, advancement, and scheduling.

Best part of the job was working with employees that took personal pride in doing a good job and somehow didn't mind the lack of recognition for doing so.

Keep in mind, this review is marked as a required field by Indeed for me to update my resume. I haven't worked for this company for 7 yrs. I'm sure things may have changed. They have been under a new CEO for sometime now.

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