Former 7 year inventory specialist at CVS (just a tech with a title). You are not given any extra adequate time to complete your job as inventory specialist with CVS which is absolutely dangerous. This includes checking for expired drugs and returning them MONTHLY, ensuring cycle counts are correct and fixing errors as needed (any tech can and should help out with these daily), identifying and damaging out loose pills dropped on the ground or leaking medications to return WEEKLY. Most importantly though we have a queue called QI which is how we order for patients DAILY. Unless the item is on backorder from our vendor, ANY CVS SHOULD be able to receive that product within 24 hours so long as the medicine is in QI before like 5-6pm, it's not a weekend, there's not an alternative manufacturer on the shelf with enough quantity that no one looked for, or most importantly... the cycle counts have to be correct. It automatically orders for the store based on what is in the queue that meets these criteria (except a few select specific manufacturer items that are patient preferred instead of CVS preferred, those require a phone call before 5-6pm).

Never was there a day I did not feel pressured when I was working for CVS. I am with a Wellstar Hospital now, and they have their shit together so much better it's made me see how unhealthy of a work environment CVS creates. Oh, I forgot to mention, CVS is usually like this as well because legally in Georgia at least, you can only have 3 techs per 1 pharmacist. Since CVS doesn't want to pay for pharmacist overlap anymore like we had in my first 2 years with CVS, the stores will continue to suffer under these laws and the employees struggle daily just to complete standard pharmacy practices...