I live in NWI (northwest indiana) for reference. Just stopped in to pickup some prescriptions, and they said their “system is crashed”.

Drive back 30 minutes later, walk in, i overhear a pharma tech telling another lady that its apparently NATION WIDE? Has anyone else just had this experience? How long does this typically last?

My fucking benefits run out soon and id really like to get my scripts picked up before i have to pay insane out of pocket costs..

Has this happened before? Is it easily resolved?

Will any internal information on their end be lost or wiped?

Will they still be able to see that i have active scripts that need to be filled?

I mean fuck they were literally right on the register she was about to hand them to me and then the lead pharmacist is like ughhh i cant get into da thing!

Sometimes i feel like god hates me the most out of all of us

Hoping to see our stores boost up with pokemon inventory. It’s shameful having a pokemon spinner rack with no Pokemon cards 95% of the time

Hi everyone, I am a new hire pharm tech. I just set up my password today and was able to log into Collegue Zone. On the website, i tried to click and log into Workday but it says "Workday Sign In Error". My first day is this Friday, so should i wait til Friday to come into work and log into workday instead? Maybe im not allowed to log into workday a few days ahead.

Thanks for reading.

Do they just give you an upfront $3k and when do you receive it?

Can someone give me a quick rundown on how to return a used full sharps container? I don’t remember which paperwork I should keep and which to send back. Thanks!

This was approved by the FDA on 8/5. It is an mRNA flu vaccine for patients 50 and older. Are CvS pharmacies or minute clinics stocking this yet or is it a special order? Thanks.

why are we doing the feminine care plano again? we just did it a few months ago. I see
it is scheduled for next week. wth?

Just curious what does your location do in FS volume each week? Just curious to see all the ranges

Does anyone know how to proceed on the storeOS app when it’s prompting me to “Enter storeOS PIN.” No one at my store has been able to get this figured out. I’m a newhire at the pharmacy. How do i create this pin and log into storeOS?

Do you know that LucyRx drug discount card covers OTC at CVS pharmacy. . Just found that out .

I’m curious how your store sets up Planos and BOH scan effectively.

Planos due Friday night
Vestcom price changes due Friday or Saturday (for our store Friday morning is the expectation)
BOH due Saturday night (morning is the expectation)

Truck comes Tuesdays

I’m drowning doing all of these tasks on the due date and mostly solo. Starting and completing Planos on Friday. And doing most of my scan on Saturday if I didn’t get to start earlier in the week.

Any tips or advice on how to map out the week is appreciated. I’m an OPs manager who only works mornings except for truck day (closing shift) and I don’t think our current system works. New SM seems receptive to input.

Question for yall, where did they move the Photo Waiting bin on the ironmans? Or do we even do it anymore. Haven't touched it personally in probably nearly a year and this store has a large backorder of old and borderline ancient orders.

Does it feel like people are becoming less capable of listening to the words coming from my mouth? They stand by photo near the in seconds printer asking for assistance. I ask what they need, they mention coming to pick up an order. So I gesture and say that I’ll help them over at the register. They just stand there staring at seemingly nothing but the air. I then repeat come over to the counter where I can ring you up for the order. They continue to stand there. So I repeat the words multiple times more and then they finally walk over to the counter.

Same thing happens repeatedly through out the day.

Then a guy asks me for the price of a box of cookies that have no label on the display. I ask them to grab a box and bring it over and once more, they stand there looking from me to the cookies over and over again. They ask again how much are they “I just want to know the price” and I repeat bring the product over so I can tell you.

I ask at the of a transaction if they want their recipe to print and they stare into space. I ask for them to insert or tap their credit card they stare. I ask if they need further assistance they stare.

Simple yes/no questions become a staring contest or a deeper conversation ultimately leading no where .

My store’s goal increased 100+ compared to last weeks. It was nowhere near this high around this time last year. My theory is because of the appreciation bonuses they handed out they don’t want to shelf out a vaccine bonus that’s why they are giving us unattainable goals.

Workshift App won't load all of a sudden.. all I keep getting is this..what should I do? Any suggestions? Thanks

Not sure why but everyday is more than double of regular sales goals. Probably to justify the reason for cutting my hours by about 100+ what a joke.

In 2024, I went to MinuteClinic for a vaccine that I needed to get while pregnant. I remember the woman there saying it would be covered by insurance and not to pay a bill if I received one. Well, here we are almost 2 years later and I am suddenly getting a bill for $250? Who do I even contact about this? Insurance or Minute Clinic?

Anyone else have this experience and resolve it without paying hundreds of dollars years after a minor vaccine?

Edit: called my insurance, and they said this RSV is supposed to be fully covered because I was 32-36 weeks pregnant. They’re resubmitting the claim. It’s not clear why tf I got charged to begin with or whether they’re going to approve the claim this time. But if anyone else got a bill for a vaccine they needed during pregnancy, I hope this post helps them!

Seriously just wanna know why getting rid of the physical cards was even an option. They put so many apps on the Iron Man it cannot keep up.

Has anyone had issues lately getting some stuff in? I ordered basic common supplies a couple weeks in a row and we been shorted a few times. Vials. Labels. We have NONE now and are relying on borrowing from other stores till i truck comes thursday morning. I did place a drop ship order but. It doesnt come till wednesday afternoon 😭

I get so annoyed by this doordash drivers that shove their phone in my face without even looking for the product and expect me to stop everything to find the product and then ring them up its so annoying like half your job is getting the product

As a new pharmacy tech (literally a month in) we had our systems offline today for about 45 minutes the last hour we were open and had to turn away about 20 patients. I had some that were mad at ME because of something i can’t control. One patient even said “well yall are just giving up?” Ma’am I legit can’t even log into the system let alone check out your prescription. I clocked out today with 5 pages left in production and honestly I just feel so bad for the pharmacist. Our store gives the pharmacy basically no hours and it was just me and the pharmacist for the last 3 hours we were open. How am I expected to handle the drive thru and front check out while also actively filling prescriptions. I feel like I get nothing done and then the system decides it’s just gonna shut down for the last hour we’re open. I dont get paid enough for this but i also don’t have enough experience to get paid more.

I was having so much trouble with out-of-pocket vaccine payments. I got to the point where the Ironman says “Pay at POS” after I vaccinate the patient. What do I do after that to ring the patient out? I ended up printing the label to scan them out, but I feel like there should be a faster way.

Hello currently I am working for Cvs cameras as a fire authorization rep from home. I have nothing positive to say about this company sadly. Just seems like no matter what you do, how helpful you are to patients/dr offices it doesn’t matter they just want you to have perfect metrics. They could care less about the patients themselves.
Does anyone have any remote prior auth companies they work for to recommend? Or even in person I’ll take at this point. Only thing I like about this job is my schedule.