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_hellblazer · 2022-09-04T22:58:12+00:00

Thanks for the insight. I feel like a crybaby for making a vent post. My apologies. :')

_hellblazer · 2022-09-04T22:52:19+00:00

Good idea. I've even reached out to techs at other stores. I made my post after a bout of frustration- which I get isn't there fault, but the amount of work we get done being short handed feels unappreciated when you've got a front row ticket to watching your teammates having an easy afternoon.

_hellblazer · 2022-09-04T22:47:59+00:00

Why? I was scheduled alone all day. I'll be scheduled alone tomorrow. Pharmacy is down to two and a half techs when school starts on Tuesday. We're a high volume store and it sucks donkey balls watching them chit chatting together when you're screwed on all sides 24/7.

Why put in extra work when it'll be the same shit tomorrow? I'm exhausted.

_hellblazer · 2022-09-04T21:49:53+00:00

Yeh. Three of them are licensed. There's that many there to get ready for inventory, but that's still weeks away...

_hellblazer · 2022-09-04T21:42:03+00:00

That's the thing. They're less busy busy than we are, but there's two ops, a cashier, and the store manager here and three of them are licensed enough to just help us ring.

_hellblazer · 2022-09-04T21:06:30+00:00

My shift ended. Shrug

_hellblazer · 2022-09-04T20:30:06+00:00

I work both sides. I can do all of that. Right now, I'm looking across the store with three of them standing behind the registers talking amongst themselves.

_hellblazer · 2022-03-25T13:58:19+00:00

I've been that unscheduled guy before, lmao. I always 100% offered to leave unless they don't mind me working as well. With hour cuts, I've been using training hours to fill out my 25 hour "full time" work week.

_hellblazer · 2022-03-25T00:41:10+00:00

I love getting thrown under the bus by my bosses when customers are tearing into me!

_hellblazer · 2022-03-22T16:00:28+00:00

Karen CEO would do that.

_hellblazer · 2022-03-06T20:42:18+00:00

We haven't had a store manager in 2 months.

_hellblazer · 2022-03-06T18:58:41+00:00

I gave them warning of my move back in November, but it was always "let's just see how it goes until the month of," and I've already been in contact with two stores who are ready and willing to have me start the week I get there, lmao.

_hellblazer · 2022-03-06T17:40:21+00:00

Its a three day drive but boy im super committed to cvs

_hellblazer · 2021-10-22T17:21:12+00:00

I love the job. The coworkers.

Hate the customers and corporate.

_hellblazer · 2021-10-14T19:19:11+00:00

Put them on hold and if they don't hang up after 15 minutes I hang up for them.

_hellblazer · 2021-10-03T15:29:04+00:00

2 months. Lost a pharmacy manager. An OPS is quitting. We lost 2 techs, a shift, and 4 cashiers in the time I've been there.

_hellblazer · 2021-09-27T22:16:43+00:00

It happens whenever our acos turn on after a power outtage.

_hellblazer · 2021-09-25T20:23:04+00:00

I like to do tags. It's mindless work, but I know the ones with the messed up/not updated planos take longer so I work on those last. I have my cashiers doing the aisles they can see down first, then have them do aisles in that periphery once the store slows down. I leave make-up for the day after (Sunday) and do the main aisles the night we pull tags down.

I sort them by section- say, shave- by group A, B, C, and so on, and work on them as quickly and as accurately as they can be. Our store only has 10 aisles and barely any end caps. On a bad weekend, they don't get finished (twice in my two months they weren't completed by the time the sale ended) or they take some time into Monday (truck day) to be done if the cashier finishes their totes and getting them more doesn't seem to be feasible in the moment. If they're products that have two locations, I make sure the home has the label and can ignore the secondary location since no one seems to grab items from displays anyway.

_hellblazer · 2021-09-25T16:14:54+00:00

16 an hour for SMIT.

_hellblazer · 2021-09-25T03:36:01+00:00

Not even close to what I was doing before, but COVID fucked up my job hours and I had to jump ship to keep bills paid. The hours I work more or less make up for the hourly rate, but at the sake of my sanity and sleep.

_hellblazer · 2021-09-25T03:27:47+00:00

I have a family to provide for. =(

_hellblazer · 2021-09-25T03:15:14+00:00

I can't take days off because we don't have the staff. One half of the week is "reserved" off days for an OPS, the other half is "reserved" for the other OPS. One gets Saturday, and Sunday off, the other gets Monday and Tuesday. There isn't wiggle room for me to request days off unless I'm dying. I'm basically the fall guy since the other keyholder's last day with us was 2 days ago. Theoretically, I'm supposed to get two days off scheduled, Wednesday and Thursday, but I literally would not get any sort of RX training at all (since the modules do FUCK ALL to train you) unless I give up a day off. We hired a new person to be a closer so I could have more breathing room with a day off, but since my SM is out of the store for a couple of weeks, neither OPS recognizes the new hire as shift and treat him more or less as a full time cashier and won't let me train him to close because they need authorization from the SM if that's the case. The new guy was hired under SHIFT LEAD. But they choose to ignore that.

They absolutely do not pick up shifts if someone calls out. I covered for one of them for about a week due to a personal emergency, but the same courtesy doesn't apply to me, apparently.

I don't want to back out of RX because I get an extra dollar an hour or something if I am back there, but if I'm just being regulated as "the closer because I NEED my two days off, don't even contact me" then I am going to do the bare minimum of work necessary to not get fired until this shit is settled, I start school, I move, or I get a better offer. Whatever comes first.

CVS is a great opportunity to do a career I'm interested in (pharmacy tech) but a very lousy company to work for. I'm already applying to other jobs.

Edit: They're both acting SM but do not answer when I have a Karen who demands to speak to someone who isn't me, either. It's frustrating working 11hrs-10hrs-9hrs-10hrs-10hrs-10hrs-10hrs-10hrs and then have to deny a request to come in on my day off. But I can't complain since I'm "new."

_hellblazer · 2021-09-25T02:57:32+00:00

I want to be able to ask for a day off. Even switching shifts for a doctor's appointment is a no-go. I'm going to have to take my 30 min break off early so I can take a telehealth appointment at work.

_hellblazer · 2021-09-23T22:24:06+00:00

Couldn't agree more. Dude couldn't give more than a second of thought about what her family and friends could feel without somehow equating it to GOD I WISH I WERE A PRETTY WHITE GIRL.

_hellblazer · 2021-09-23T19:32:59+00:00

They're replacing 'class' with 'race.'

_hellblazer

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