Looking for advice/next steps
I started with WAG officially last year, when my HCS helped me sign up for the PEAP program ($20k towards your student loans if you work for WAG for one year). I believe my date for this is considered either late August/early September, depending on what the internal system counts as your start date.
I also was promoted from floater to interim PiC and later RXM in February, and was given a three year retention bonus at that time. I agreed to it at the time as I was in the middle of multiple financial changes such as buying a house and the bonus was immensely helpful.
In the few months I've been here, I've completely cleaned up the pharmacy (even before CNO was implemented) including mylars/dusting/sorting documents, I've worked with my team to bump up almost every single metric (myWag, texting, etc) to expected numbers/ranges, we've increased survey numbers from pharmacy, I've gotten my store to #1 in the district for routing to cenfill, my name is regularly at the top of the MTM earnings leaderboard, and we hit vax goal for April at over 130%. All of this was thanks to the efforts of both me and my awesome team of techs. And yet, no matter what I do, the DMs are constantly picking on our store.
The final straw was today when the DPS emailed us to say we are at the bottom of the district for vaccines for May, since we vaccinated most of our regulars in April and we live in an area that's very anti-vax so new patients are rarely interested. I tried to gently point out to the DPS that this is because of this and because we're a Tier 2 with just less customers/vaccine opportunities, and she referred us to another Tier 2 that is meeting goal (even though that Tier 2 is located in an affluent, educated, predominantly white area and mine is an area that is 50/50 white conservatives and ESL immigrants).
At this point, I need advice on what to do next - I don't feel like the insane effort I put into making the store run smoothly and meet metrics/compliance is recognized, and I can't be this level of stressed over whether I will get demoted/my store will get shut down because it's not profitable enough. However, I also don't know where else I can look for/find work that would be willing to pay off one or both retention bonuses - I could probably suck it up until September which would alleviate the PEAP one, but the RXM bonus is another story.
Does anyone know what places are covering retention bonuses when poaching pharmacists? Ideally somewhere without metrics to hold over our heads? Or am I better off just sucking it up for the three years? Also, how likely are we to get closed down/me to get demoted over this? Should I even be concerned over that? Also, does anyone have any suggestions for how to manage the stress of all this?
TL;DR - I have two retention bonuses, a one-year one expiring in September and a three-year one expiring in February 2029. Should I suck it up or should I seek out an employer who will cover the bonuses somehow?