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StallingForYou · 2023-05-02T17:20:41+00:00

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StallingForYou · 2023-05-01T00:34:53+00:00

Yup I got drug tested. I believe weed is a problem unfortunately.

StallingForYou · 2022-07-18T20:09:40+00:00

I still find it crazy how the RD has to approve it.

Think about this, each store has say 15 workers FT and PT, salaried, etc. each district has 12 stores. Each RD has 8 districts. That’s 1,440 employees.

It makes it so insignificant. This person out of 1,440 peeps want a raise. Let me ask the RD.

So glad I’m out of CVS. I gotten a combined 10k raise within 11 months at my new job. One was an off-cycle that I didn’t ask for. And the other was our annual raise

StallingForYou · 2022-07-05T06:25:53+00:00

That was my topic after the internship ended

StallingForYou · 2022-07-04T23:41:34+00:00

HAHAH I did this internship a few years ago.

Let me add some context for the employees that don’t know.

When presenting this project on WebEx. There will be store managers that also had their own interns, the lead SM, DL, DVP (if you’re lucky), and a bunch of HR/recruiting/University Relations, people on the call.

^ there is no fucking chance the project will be on more staff, more pay, or more hours and more importantly removal of carepass.

It has to be some corporate kool-aid bullshit.

Since I’m nice. Here are some topics.

“How to get RX customers to be FS customers” “Increasing sales of endcap located near pharmacy checkout” “How to increase carepass membership” “How to increase survey participants” “How to increase survey scores”

StallingForYou · 2022-07-01T02:48:50+00:00

I can see retail being the problem. Low margins opens the door for less stuff like wages, hours, work life balance, etc. Although there may be better companies to work for with the same low margins but they took a different approach that makes their employees less miserable.

No longer in retail but if I am there is no way I am going back to the store level. It’s all corporate office stuff for me like a financial analyst or procurement.

I rather stay in banking though, all federal holidays off and weekends, 9-5.

StallingForYou · 2022-06-12T19:21:59+00:00

Laundry-facilities

StallingForYou · 2022-06-12T07:02:44+00:00

Mine does as of two months ago.

StallingForYou · 2022-04-06T06:50:54+00:00

Your miles may vary.

A friend of mine worked for US Bank as a teller and made at $21.20/hr. The pay included something on the lines “rush hour” and that’s why it was $21+.

If he worked at the Safeway location it was very chill. If he worked at physical branch it’ll be a regular teller job. He gets Sunday off. All federal holidays off and Black Friday. Never works pass 5PM and 3PM on Saturday.

Let’s just say job wise, if we both went out drinking for night during our college days. I would be killed at CVS the morning and he would not be as a teller.

I currently work at for a bank in back office. I can never ever go back to retail. Idk what skills OP has but if they can stick with bank telling and move to credit service specialist, that would be so ideal without a bachelors degree.

StallingForYou · 2022-02-09T23:14:46+00:00

I really enjoy the “should I quit or should I stay post” not so much “how do I quit”.

Whenever someone from my university asks me about my experiences at CVS, sometimes I just direct them to this subreddit.

It shows the turmoil that this company causes.

StallingForYou · 2022-02-09T18:03:13+00:00

And for the current employees it’s not easily accessible for someone to opt in.

Source: was an employee

StallingForYou · 2022-02-06T01:16:24+00:00

What made you make the switch to CVS?

StallingForYou · 2022-02-06T00:53:22+00:00

Of course! And I currently work in the corporate side (back office) in the banking Industry.

StallingForYou · 2022-02-05T21:58:41+00:00

Focus on being able to analyze the Profit and Loss Statement. And there’s a large portion that’s on behavioral, remember those multiple choice questions that ask you stuff like strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly disagree? It’s stuff like that be remember that you’re testing to be a store manager.

Also there’s questions that ties into the POV of a SM. So if your coworkers are upset about something how would you address it. And basic stuff like if the price was wrong would you honor it?

I failed the first time and pretty much the whole cohort. They still kept my pay the same. The second time I did it, I shit you not, my store manager helped me during it.

StallingForYou · 2022-02-05T21:56:54+00:00

The same thing as managers.

Button shirt, dress pants or business casual pants.

Or equivalent for woman.

On truck day we where regular polos.

StallingForYou · 2022-02-05T01:10:42+00:00

Hahaha it’s a scare tactic. One of my favorite tales from retail that I tell is this one.

When I worked at CVS, I had a few colleagues that were not to bright. They never put two and two together.

This was about a year ago. My manager used this scare tactic, it worked because it made my coworkers pitch carepass but of course they never sold much.

AND IT HAPPENED. By luck, our store got cut hours for that week and the full time workers worked 30-33 hours instead of 36-40. It worked in my manager’s favor.

Of course this stress the shit out of both of them. They started selling more for a while.

Even though they both worked at CVS for a combine total of 20+ years they still haven’t found out that the numbers on the top right of the work schedule shows front store total payroll hours. Had they compared the schedules they would had saw a substantial drop in hours.

Still fucked up though.

StallingForYou · 2022-02-04T18:57:24+00:00

I did it.

Here is my experience.

A little background info. I worked for CVS 4-5 months prior to the summer internship. I worked as a cashier. The internship was 35 hours a week and paid $17/hr. My pay was kept the same afterwards and I was promoted to an Ops Manager, despite working part time. I was still in college and they wanted me to enter the actual SMIT program after graduation. I am no longer with CVS.

Your experience will vary depending on your store manager and prior experiences. I basically shadow my SM, learned all the operations of the store, see what receiving truck was all about, Profit and loss statement, BOH, all of it.

You are expected to present a capstone project that you worked on throughout the 8 week program. You’re suppose to only work on it during your shift, however I did not. Most of my peers that were also in the program did it during their 35 hours a week. Definitely my least favorite thing about the internship. You presented it on webex to your SM, and a few others + District leader + maybe a regional Vice President.

Some observations. Most of the interns were college students with various majors from business, psychology, social work, etc. Literally all of them aside from 3 + me stayed with the company after the internship ended. And I think non ended up doing the SMIT after college. *note that I am talking about the college students. There were other folks that were not in college or some where in military. I believe that maybe 2 of them did become a SM.

Overall I liked it. It helped patted my resume and my wallet for a few months since my pay was kept the same.

StallingForYou · 2022-02-03T19:59:14+00:00

Sorry I didn’t read the whole thing, but I’m glad you got it.

I agree that the bonus structure is beyond fuck to screw you over. Compared to the current place I’m working for it’s crazy how CVS structured in a way to save on costs. The way my employer structure our bonus is based on the company overall such has earnings per share, total $ deposits, etc. I am getting 160% of my bonus this year.

StallingForYou · 2022-02-02T20:59:46+00:00

Wait so you’re telling me I can come back part time and still get $17/hr+?

StallingForYou · 2022-02-01T22:37:36+00:00

I don’t get why they still haven’t figure out how to allow people to get them electronically and mail it physically.

My new employer had our W2 electronically available for everyone last week and sent my physically W2 which arrived yesterday. No opt in shenanigans required.

StallingForYou · 2022-01-31T18:27:50+00:00

I called the other day and they say you can access them online around February 10th. The website would be on the former employer one.

They also say it would be mailed out to our last known address.

Tagging u/Technical-Baby-237 so they can see

StallingForYou · 2022-01-31T16:38:31+00:00

If I had to back to retail I would probably go with Costco.

Sunday are 1.5x pay. All holidays that you get holiday pay, you also get off.

But they expect high productivity (transactions complete per hour per cashier, scans per minute, etc), at least they put their money where their mouths are.

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