DON'T DO IT! CVS is horrible! You'd be better off working for a sewage company! - Shift Supervisor CVS Health Employee Review

1.0
Sep 10, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you enjoy being taken advantage of, being completely miserable, stressed out and depression. This company is perfect for you!

Cons

CVS doesn’t give their employees a fair amount of hours to successfully complete any tasks. Workers are forced to stay over and come in early. Otherwise, things will not be complete and they will either get in trouble or fired. This is especially unfair for managers and pharmacists because they are on SALARY. If CVS has to compensate the pay for all of the managers and pharmacists who stayed over because CVS is too greedy and money hungry to properly staff store, they’d have to file for bankruptcy! If you have ever been in CVS to pick up a prescription and it's not ready, that's why! The employees drowned because they have 1000 tasks and only a hand full of employees/hours to get the job done. Employees are constantly stressed out. Honestly, the people who gave CVS more than the absolute MINIMUM rating are either suffering from Stockholm syndrome ( a condition in which one feels a connection with their abuser), or it’s someone who works for CVS's headquarters, making a fake review so they don’t appear to as TERRIBLE as they are. I’ve met MANY CVS employees in my time, everyone hates it. I can't wait until someone stands up and exposes this trash company for what they really are. This review is put very nicely compared to a review I would have written (along with everyone else who works/worked for CVS) if I were to fully speak my mind. Unfortunately, I don’t have the time to write a series of books on my personal experience on how CVS is a greedy crap company, as well as, how much they screw over all of their employees. To sum everything up, you’re better off unemployed.

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5.0
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Pros

I learned a lot working there as far as how to run a business as well as how to develop a team. I had one of the most successful teams in the company ranking as the top store year over year in two separate markets, one in the Northeast one in the Southeast. I was a paragon winner with the company as well. My most recent DM was very supportive. I genuinely thank them for the opportunity and the knowledge that I acquired while working with them.

Cons

Work hours were excessive. To be successful hours worked were borderline slavery. While I willingly worked them to be successful, the week you didn't you were immediately behind. Vacations were almost non existent due to constant visitors from corporate stopping in to do reviews. Holiday weeks were paid 4 days regular 1 holiday and you worked all 5. The facade of the stores looking great when these people stop by versus the reality of the business is polarizing. There were always teams of people and excessive expenditures of payroll thrown into stores prior to their visits. While I understood the need to make an appearance, it was always will always be a backwards way off thinking. Company preaches quality of life for their clients while quality of life for their employees is non-existent. As a "manager" in your average store you will be "managing" a total of one person during your shift, with a total of 10 people at location. Location open hours will exceed total payroll hours ie Sun-Sat 7am-10pm = 15hrs per day x 7 days x 2 people = 210 hrs which excludes the need to have a person unload deliveries that come in during non opened hours. Your budgeted hours will be approximately 208 hrs. I will only mention that during the month of December that there are extended hours for the stores but no budgeted hours to accommodate. Stores are held to strict shrink targets with little to no control over external theft. Remember 2 people at location, if four people enter to steal there is nothing you can do to stop them. These are facts not personal prejudices.

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