Pros
Decent Wage, Benefits, Free Flu shots, Yearly Raises, Lots of options to move to other surrounding stores to pick up hours.
Cons
Always cutting hours, Schedules based on previous year completely missing future changes, corporate rules negatively influencing individual stores, wide range of competency within pharmacy technicians, always changing schedule, stores never give seniority over the schedule offering a changing week by week schedule, worked extremely hard to get a raised followed by pharmacist saying they didn't except my review to lower the amount of the raise I was getting, doesn't know how to keep hard workers and consistently lowers their hours to a point of 30/hrs per week. Almost never approves overtime even when necessary, Very difficult to move up as a technician in the job, if you work at a busy store you will almost never be able to find time to take the Cptb exam, let alone management will rarely give you a raise for the accomplishment, If you work at a busy store and management likes you your reward is almost never being able to be transferred as the pharmacy manager or the DM of the region will block your transfer even if it pays more and is closer to your living location. Have seen some of the best technicians I've ever worked with dwindle down to 20/hrs or less meaning all who worked commonly were working multiple jobs to stay afloat, sometimes they also trick recently graduated pharmacists to become pharmacist managers only to find out they had very little training and thus the stores "numbers" decreased significantly again relying more on the technicians that maintain the store.