Omnicare Reviews

Pros

Our small company was purchased by Omnicare and we have been supported in our growth by Senior Management. They took steps to give us the resources they need utilizing other areas of the vast corporation.

Cons

Being a large corporation, there are a great deal of hurdles to overcome to accomplish even some of the smallest changes or purchases.

Pros

If you like low pay and long hour then Omnicare is your dream job. Generally, you can get as much overtime as you like, but lately they have been trying to cut back.

Cons

Management is grossly incompetent. Nepotism and corruption are rampant. If you want to know why an individual got a job, you simply need to ask who they are related to. The pay is ridiculously low by any standard. The type of unprofessional nonsense that HR tolerates is simply unbelievable. Labor lawyers would be wise to put flyers on employee vehicles. They would make tons of money.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should be fired. The only way the deeply ingrained dysfunctional culture of this company can be cured is by bringing in new people and empowering them to truly shake things up.
Policy consistency is non-existent. New policies last less than a month and employees quickly return to their backward ways. There is no accountability whatsoever.

Pros

New management, new culture, many resources

Cons

Company is so large that communication is challenging resulting in a lack of information often necessary to do your job.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to look at upper management at each pharmacy and evaluate their performance to be sure the right people are in leadership roles.

Pros

The benefits are good and the friends you make while you work there.

Cons

- Working 60+hrs of overtime
- getting promotions but no extra pay
- management is a joke - When asked about pay for promotions the reply was "we can not award good work with pay"
- When leaving there the management treats you awful and you basically have to beg and harass for anything
- management cares nothing about employess only their customers
- 2% yearly raise

Advice to Senior Management

Get it together before you lose all your good employees, people do have families and a life outside of work. And when you promote people and give them more work they deserve a raise more than 2%!!!

Pros

Some of the coworkers are great as people and professionals. Will train you to different areas of work that they can use you at anytime.

Cons

The management sucks. They never check in the dictionary what " nepotism" means

Advice to Senior Management

Please step down and allow someone to lead the pharmacy in the right way. You will lose all nursing homes in the next 2-3 years.

Pros

- working on the pharmacy floor was very easy--it consisted of mainly labeling meds or packing pills in blister packs.
- a little more than half the people that i worked with were very welcoming, understanding, and helpful.
- pharmacy tech manager was very understanding and made me feel comfortable as a new employee.
- upper management was very nice, although it might have been due to the fact that they were new too.
- starting pay was way more than what i expected, so i was very satisfied with my pay.

Cons

- pharmacy manager and director were both on their 3 month probation period, and most of the other pharmacy technicians were temps. this made me wonder how stable this company is.
- a lot of the temps got laid off and then asked to come back again--another reason why i questioned the stability of the company.
- the system being used in the order entry department was somewhat complex, and i honestly feel that i did not get proper training on this. this was my biggest issue and actually the reason why i quit. it was an everyday struggle trying to get through the day with this order entry system. i asked numerous times for some help and explanation with certain problems that i was having with the system, and the general response i received was, "oh it will just take a while to get". i completely understand that, however responses like that were not relieving nor helpful.. most of the staff was great, don't get me wrong, but being great isn't the same as being helpful. IF i did get any hands on help, it went something like this: "ok what you do is push this button, then this button, then this, then this and this and this"...you get the idea. you can tell me what to push but without explanation, those directions are meaningless.

in all, the order entry system is not impossible to figure out, it just might take some time. so if you're planning on applying or even just starting to work here in the order entry department, just be prepared for such things as what i stated above.

Advice to Senior Management

work on proper training with the order entry system.

Pros

Flexible work schedule with weekends possible.

Cons

Vacation and off time limited

Advice to Senior Management

Hire more people to give some others a rest

Pros

Some flexibility. Little to no supervision, can be good and bad.

Cons

No training for any role within the company. Too many ways to communicate. Multiple systems with no clear direction.

Advice to Senior Management

Work on making the folks on the 'front' lines happy and you'll succeed.

Pros

Improvements being made regularly, but culture slow to change.

Cons

Under qualified lower management use bullying tactics, treat employees more as laborers than resources. Little employee respect.

Advice to Senior Management

Competitive salaries, eliminate "blue collar" leadership mentality.

Pros

You will always have something to do. With their endless clients you will have many different opportunities for working throughout the day and week.

Cons

Work/life balance lacking if you do not have a flexible schedule. The company would like you to work as much as you can.

Advice to Senior Management

I would advise the company to work on their employee feedback. Check to see where they are at and make sure you follow their advice.