Avantages
The main reason I stayed with the company for nearly 4 years were that I had a very flexible schedule and I loved my coworkers. I also genuinely enjoyed working as a pharmacy tech. It was easier to request time off for holidays than at previous employers.
Inconvénients
The wages are disgustingly low for skilled labor that requires you to have a certification and involves something as sensitive as handling medication and confidential healthcare records. Opportunities for advancement were slim to none and the annual review process by default awarded a whopping 2% raise regardless of how hard you may have worked. We were also increasingly pressured to fill my prescriptions with fewer tech hours and, once again, wages did not adjust in proportion with these expectations. I watched the morale of my immediate supervisor and fellow techs rapidly deteriorate accordingly. There was also an irritating emphasis on trying to up-sale by pushing flu shots on to customers who usually just seemed annoyed, and yet there was no tangible monetary incentive to do so for anyone other than upper management. Oh wait, my mistake: techs were offered the exciting prospect of a whole $100 if we exceeded their unrealistic expectations (a process that would occur over the course of an entire season). While tech wages stagnated, the CEO gave himself multiple pay raises. If you want a concise illustration of everything wrong with capitalism, look no further than Rite Aid!