CVS Health reviews

Adjusted pay Cut hours Outrageous Health Insurance costs Bad upper management Poor work conditions Run down stores Horrible customers Out of reach metrics Bad organizational skills Zero loss prevention. I was hired at a good rate under their "SMT" program and appreciated the starting pay. Once I finished the training I was put into an Assistant Manager position which was common for that program. After 7 months, a weekend off was stopped, mainly due to a bad manager that had excuses for everything. After the first year CVS decided to re-categorize their positions and you either became a SMIT, Operations Manager or Operations Supervisor. Who's dumb idea was that? The average customer already thinks nothing of an Assistant Manager to begin with, and now CVS further confused them with ridiculous new titles. And did I mention that it came with a pay cut? And their new full time status is now considered 30 hours instead of 40??? So a 10% pay cut just became a 30% pay cut. And the mid level insurance will run you about $300 every 2 weeks. So if you make $25 an hour and work 30 hours minus the insurance, you pre tax pay is now $900. Do the math on how little you actually make.

If you're career-driven, you simply cannot rely on management to support you, and many of them are not happy people themselves. In field management, there is a culture of everyone being too busy to help anyone else. if you will. At the store level, each branch has its own culture. I worked in one branch with a good, disciplined culture, and another with a highly toxic, negative, backwards culture. Expect to spend 35% of your time cashiering, and expect to work nights and weekends regularly as with any other retail role. I worked here for eight months before deciding to go elsewhere.