truck driver

maintenance engineer

warehouse worker

maintenance technician

driver

McKesson

What is the best part of working at the company?
Being out on the road making the deliveries. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The handheld device can be a real hindrance to doing your job. 
 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Your working day is split between working at the depot, scanning and sorting your load before you can fill your van. You get the chance to say a few things to fellow workers. Once you’ve filled your van you’ll leave the depot to complete your delivery route. 

Once away from the depot you’ll drive your route either by following order the handheld device suggests, or the order that you feel is best. The vans are tracked so the depot knows where you are at all times. You may be questioned to justify the route you choose to take. So it helps to be confident that the decisions you make will be acceptable to your manager. You will be trusted to a certain extent, the nature of the deliveries being drugs and medical supplies means the company needs to know what you are doing during your time making your deliveries. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
You start early morning, once you get to the depot you’re expected to check the van for any issues (including damage, fuel and water levels, tyres). You sort your load and scan the boxes into the order of your delivery route. Then you load up your van before leaving the depot to start your delivery route. When you’ve delivered all the boxes to pharmacy outlets or GP surgeries you return to the depot and unload the empty boxes you collected during your round before repeating the loading process and heading out for your second round of the day. Once you have delivered your last boxes you are allowed to take the vehicle home with you. If you are unable to deliver everything you have to take any undelivered items back to the depot. 
It can be a long day Monday to Friday, you will drive over 150 miles a day, no two days are the same. You will also be expected to work every other Saturday doing a single round (about 100 miles).

If it weren't for the great team we had I'm not sure many colleagues would have stayed. We had a very small team, too small at times, when one person was going on holiday you had to cover shifts (as expected), however, if you were already working that day and no one would cover the evening you'd have to stay the whole day.... This is without a break. 12 hour shifts with no break is exhausting and for minimum wage, is not worth it. You'd also be expected to do a lot, stuff which as a trainee you shouldn't be doing because it's not something in your job description, this is just to keep the work force low to save on money, definitely spreading the work force too thinly, it got incredibly stressful. 

When I went for the interview I was told we get a bonus every month when we meet our targets. Which sounded fantastic. Little did I know that targets are almost never met because they are so ridiculously unreachable. The amount of customers plateau but the targets just seemed to get higher and higher. 

The regional managers that came in to check on us were hit or miss, lovely some days, bite your head off on others. 

The training was good, managed to get it done before I left because of our fantastic pharmacists. The training was very informative and I believe will help me in future job prospects.

So yeah, the actual company morales for their staff really isn't great but luckily I had a great team to guide me through everything, if it weren't for them I would've left the job much earlier. It just isn't worth it.

Had to physically run around a designated area collecting items using a scanner and packing according to instructions to protect them from damage during transit.
The hardest part was, I was happy to do overtime, as requested on interview that this would be the case majority of the time. This would be 15 minutes to 30 minutes maximum, but in reality this would last anything from 2 hours to 3 hours extra on top of a normal 5 hour shift. Being a mom of 2 kids who has to do the school run. It was very hard to do, when your getting home at 2 am, 3 am or 4 am five days a week when you normal finish time was meant to be 12 am. 
I enjoyed being part of a team but worked on my own throughout the shift, making sure that the orders were collected and packed according to instructions. I really enjoyed the fast pace as time went much faster, rather than be bored sitting waiting for instructions to arrive. This meant we had to manage our time carefully as nobody else would have been able to help fulfill the required number of orders per hour.
I work hard as I can for anybody but even this was too much especially when you have 2 kids and have had to do extra hours at the same fast pace. Also being told to do overtime on same day meant we were not always prepared for staying late.
I am grateful that AAH took me in as a team member and helped train me, and I am sure that it is not always easy to take on new recruits and train them, but I thank them for all the opportunities they gave.

this is difficult as ive never worked the same day twice in 8 years.  this is somehting that both excites and motivates me.  I am respinsible for all Projects bothe Tecnical and Process orientated which impacts our wholesale operations.  I report directly into the Supply chain Director and have a team of 10 Project analysts who have a varied technical and supply chaion knowledg.  this knowledge ranges from IT infastructure and cabling, Fuly automated support for the 12 Automated warehouses to WMS systems processes.  my team is a strong and loyal team who have managed to always go the extra mile when delivering success within the organisation. 

Over the last 19 years working within AAH/Celesio i have gain an extensive amount of knowledge of the entire supply chain from manufacturuer deliveries straight to sote and home delivery and have been part of and responsible for the majority of projects and intitiatives that have driven change over the years.  As part of working for AAH they ahve sponsered me to complete my CMS and DMS business management studies up to my 1st year MBA.

the Hardest part of the role is the intensity of how many projects are needed and the strcit timelines we have to meet.  however i do get some sick pleasure in the stress that goes with this.

Your supposed to do a shift, 2.45-9.15 

Although I thought … I was aware that there was a little overtime, but was only supposed to be Monday and Tuesday late ones. Wednesday and Thursday was an extra half hour and Friday you were supposed to finish early ended up being everyday having to work overtime till late- then they say every 3rd Sunday you have to work- they forget to tell you the other Sundays your supposed to work. And it’s not even nicely asked either they just tell you your doing overtime and just tell you your in Sunday. I was told 3 Sundays in a row even when I had family plans. I felt so exhausted and dropped weight instantly. Your mental health reaches a new low and I was stuck in the fridge the whole time I was there even though I countlessly asked to be trained in other areas. The job is doable it’s not majorly hard - it’s the hours If you have kids it’s not ideal. I hardly saw my kids and that’s what got to me the most. If they trained you elsewhere aswell so you wasn’t ALWAYS in one place it’d be better. It’s also like you do your actual job then you have to always go help in the warehouse- yet if warehouse finished early they could just go home. Unfair environment!! 

1 - Manager was needlessly horrible. Not interested in my training was doing the same thing and wouldn't know what to do although i was a trainee and so one would assume training would be part of the job

Would embarrass me in front of customers

2- Was paid late. 

3- Unsure what the reason was but manager and one locum pharmacist seemed to despise me. Would constantly nitpick at everything i did. It was horrible and really affected my self esteem. 

The job was only 1 day a week yet i would constantly be thinking about it and it would ruin my week knowing I'd have to go back.

4 - Off due to health reasons and was given a list of reasons of the IMPACT i had by being off. Basically trying to make me feel guilty for being seriously ill. Another colleague off constantly and nothing was said. Clear vendetta against me however I had never made any severe mistake or constant mistakes. I just attempted to do my job.

5- Ridiculous way of work - prescriptions would take ages and I would have to bear the brunt of the customers anger. 

Overall extremely glad i quit. I could be on the verge of having no money but would never choose to work here again. Very disappointing.

This company drew me in with the promise of being customer orientated and feeling like an independent pharmacy, but with the benefits of a corporate business. I can tell you now, this is really not the case. 

The management are only focused on targets and getting the ‘wheel’ green (target steering wheel). Heaven forbid you’re red on any section and they come down on you and want to know why. Maybe it’s because you can’t spend enough time with patients, so they go elsewhere? 

Management say, ‘treat everyone like a family member’ however they don’t give you the time or the resources to be spending that much time with patients. I pride myself on my customer service, and unfortunately that meant other aspects of my pharmacy slipped, however you would have though retaining business was far more important to them. 

Awkward environment to work in, everyone seems to have their own clique and just don’t have a lot of respect for anyone, well especially in my branch. And the pay was rubbish too, in comparison to effectively demoting myself in another company and still being paid more!

10 years ago i would have recommended this company, but the branch i work for now is corrupt. Management have their favourites and will allow them to arrive late, leave early, take as many breaks as they want and to abuse the system. Some staff are allowed access to personal files as well as time off whenever requested.  The staff who actually do their work are treated poorly, spoken to like dirt and held back in their job role with no chance of progression.  Numerous staff have left over poor treatment by management and bullying from other staff members.  However many times you complain to higher management or HR nothing is done as they protect their management. If your face fits and you speak to management like cr*p then you will love the job as you wont have to ever do a full days work.  If you are a corrupt manager looking for a position then look into AAH Pharmaceuticals. If however you are a hardworking individual looking to progress then i would advise avoiding this company.

I've been a loyal employee of Lloyds for 10 years and finally decided to call it a day. I don't even know where to begin with the problems and difficulties of working here. The biggest issue I would say is the senior management. The practice over the last few years seems very much to recruit externally those that have zero pharmacy experience rather than developing from within. The problem with this is, they don't really understand what pharmacy is about, what a day in pharmacy is like and the challenges we face. Everything has to be an action plan, or declare an action has been completed on 2 or 3 different platforms and before long it gets very confusing when you get a visit to branch and they're asking for copies of declarations you don't even remember doing. The RM approach is very much criticise rather than support. The company is declining rapidly. The pay is terrible too, almost insulting. 

The organisation cannot keep hold of it's employees within payroll. During a period of around 12 months I have seen 13 employees leave on negative terms. I can see the software is never going to get better thus forcing people to work extra even doing two or three peoples job in one time. Instead of finding a solution for a software fault they will place what we call a "plaster" and move forward.

They claim to be fair but that is far from the truth. I would avoid at any cost as there are much better organisations out there to work for and be happy. Remember they will drain every penny they pay out of you. The organisation will also watch what you do, how you do it and how quickly you do it. Employing a team leader who has stated within a personal work profile, firing people is a skill, should deter you if anything else.

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