best multiple to work for?

[jaykezman]

I am thinking of applying for a permenant position in one of the multiples.
Probably a part time one.

I allready know what Boots is like, but i am wonderin about the others.

Morrisons,Llyods,Tesco...etc.

All things being equal, which pays the most and which has the best working conditions.

By working conditions i include quality of support staff, support from the managers, dispensary organisation...etc.

Obviously there will be variations from branch to branch; but in general.

There is no point asking the multiples themselves because they will obviously tell you it's all a bed of roses.


Thanks

[stress@lloyds]

Go away from Lloyds.....Too much hassle, no staff, too highe expectations, everybody is moaning at the moment and it does not seem to get better.........

[pharmer7]

Trying not to be all doom and gloom, but this question is kind of like asking, would you rather be hung, shot by firing squad or placed in the electric chair. In all seriousness, I hear too many bad and good points of every company, have you tried locuming for a while and then maybe figure out that way?

[weeneldo]

this question is kind of like asking, would you rather be hung, shot by firing squad or placed in the electric chair.

Funny you should mention that, I often ask myself that question when locuming for the multiples!

But seriously, on my very first shift for the Shoe company as an independent locum, some big boss phoned up the store manager to tell her to tell me I was to go to the other side of the city and work an extra 4 hours (on a Saturday no less!). The boss on the phone then hung up on me when I said I wasn't doing it due to plans I had that afternoon. I was also sternly told off by the store manager on that day for having less than a pound in change in my pocket because, as she put it "if I decide to randomly search you, I'll assume you've stolen it". Freshly qualified from an independent pharmacy background, I had no idea there were so many rules that no-one had told me! I'm still learning them through getting told off two months down the line.

One of the dispensers I was working with once asked me "do you think bosses would speak to you like that if you weren't so young?" In all honesty, I can see it two ways. On one hand, I can imagine them just seeing me as some stupid kid who doesn't know what he's doing. On the other hand, I can also imagine them seeing everyone below as the shit on their shoe and treating them as such, especially the non-pharmacist members of staff. I was working in a store for a different multiple recently. The technician received a call from her friend working in another local store for the same chain. This other store was continuously desperately understaffed (as in "stay in the shop til 11 at night to get the home done" understaffed) and the regular pharmacist was on long term sick leave so it was being covered by relief staff and locums. Nevertheless, the regional manager had been in for a visit and a couple of hours of put downs and threats later, he left the small group of women ripped to shreds, tears streaming from their faces, devoid of morale and waiting for the day the axe comes down, they lose their job and their world comes tumbling down around them.

So my advice? Take your pick. They're all c*nts.