CVS -- We Loves Us Our Employees

[jerseyjack]

East Coast is met with a blizzard condition on Sunday. CVS
responds by sending a memo warning that any employee leaving
on Sunday before closing time, will not be employed by CVS on
Monday.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. CVS sucks for a variety of reasons.

I would never shop there.

[wtmusic]

9. They have a virtual monopoly in my area

They suck, because they can. Note to Obama: Please google "Sherman Act"

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Same around here, unfortunately.

They've bought out every mom-and-pop store in sight.

I'll drive 15 miles to avoid shopping in their crappy little stores.

Surly clerks, overpriced merchandise, junky overcrowded aisles -
they just plain suck.

There was a wonderful historical display on a local business' site that they bought for a new store, and they ordered it razed so they could expand their parking lot plans.

[wtmusic]

21. Thanks for info.

I will now go *way* out of my way to avoid them. :thumbsup:

[elleng]

23. Prolly too late for that; pharmacies>monopolies happening over long time,

tho MIGHT be deterred, now + future, in certain markets. MAYBE.

[Le Taz Hot]

2. Was that from headquarters

or from the local store? This is important, man! My cheap vodka depends on it!

[greyl]

3. Evidence please. nt

[Orrex]

4. It was asserted anonymously on the internet--what other evidence could you possibly need?

[hobbit709]

5. Sounds like a place where I worked back in 2000

Two days before Memorial Day weekend they announced we will be working-no exceptions and anyone that called in or didn't show would be terminated. One crew leader said he had bought tickets and made reservations to go to his daughter's graduation. They told him tough luck. He responded by walking out the door. Tues. morning they figured out that over half the work force was gone. Eight months later the place shut down.

[slampoet]

6. CVS also doesn't clear snow responsibly in their industrial park. I have seen cars slip

downhill approaching their corporate offices all the time.

[KharmaTrain]

7. Unsubstantiated Rumor...

Gotta love those intertubes. Even so...whatif someone is in dire need of a prescription...snowstorm or no snowstorm, should the store close cause someone can't find a way to get to work...or if they're already there to put in a little OT (surely they'd be paid for it). There are some businesses that have to keep rolling no matter what...police and fire for example...and those who chose to work in those jobs should know the perils.

[Occulus]

10. YES, that's RIGHT!

Because we have LOTS and LOTS of things that are more valuable than any particular second, minute, or hour we spend on this Earth. Since we ALL know exactly when we're going to DIE (you do know that.... don't you? I do, but I'm BETTER than YOU so I DESERVE to know), it makes PERFECT SENSE to give some of that time to your ALL-POWERFUL EMPLOYER during a serious blizzard, even when doing so just might place your life in mortal danger from icy roads, bitter, life-and-limb endangering cold, or a slip-and-fall AFTER your shift that your ALL-POWERFUL EMPLOYER will FIRE you for because suddenly you have a broken ankle and ZOMGWTF YOU CAN'T WERK YER FIRRREEED!

"There are some businesses that have to keep rolling no matter what..."

And CVS ain't one of 'em, Blanche. WAKE up. *shake* *slap* *dousewithcoldwater*

When you go to work, you are effectively selling a business your time. Your precious, nonrenewable time. Time you will never ever get back. You are, quite literally, giving them the most important thing you will ever have (including your own children).

Your time is a precious commodity- the most precious commodity that will ever exist. It sickens me- should sicken all of us- that we, or anyone else, value our time here so very, very cheaply.

Cheaply enough, at least for some of us, that we would risk our lives, for an employer. Not to save that employer's life, but just to be there for them. Not to be there for them during a personal disaster or a familial upheaval, but just to be there during work hours, standing behind a counter, asking other people, "Can I help you?"

I grew up in and live in Michigan. We often face very cold and snowy winters; we always have (except for one time when I was a kid and it was 75 degrees on Christmas Day). We know when to go to work, when to stay home, and when to go to the store and buy everything we can as fast as we can (only happened once in my memory; New Year's Eve, 1984-1985). I have learned, through experience, that no employer anywhere (excepting police/fire/EMS/military, for the most obvious reasons) is worth risking one's life for just because store/company policy says one must do so.

Not Burger King. Not CVS. Not my own employer, the USPS. I'm more important than that. You should think of yourself that way, too.

And guess what? Even if this whole story in the OP is completely bogus, that hypothetical CVS employee should not ever be risking his or her life on the way in or on the way home just to satisfy some company policy.

We are all worth more than that.

[Still a Democrat]

8. Got a link? n/t

[tabbycat31]

11. I worked there just out of high school

I was at a 24 hour store and it was awful. I had to come to work in conditions like this.

[Freddie Stubbs]

13. Do you have any evidence to back this up?

[matt819]

14. This sounds like BS

Mods - lock this thread.

Without any substantiation, it's not unlike calling another DUer a troll.

You know, folks, not all corporations are evil.

[eShirl]

15. Our local CVS manager has instructed the employees to wave me through the detector if it beeps

I've been picking up several prescriptions a month there for a decade now, and once in a while someone forgets to neutralize the anti-shoplifting tech on a box of syringes or test strips. Whoever's in the front of the store will look over, see it's me, smile and wave me through the door, saying, "Sorry!"

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. Could you at least copy and paste the actual email here?

I suppose a link is too much to ask for . . .

[jerseyjack]

17. I emailed CVS corporate

to find is this was a store or corporate memo. If they reply, I will post.

JJ

[City Lights]

18. Link please.

TIA. :-)

[blondeatlast]

19. No fan am I of CVS, but I'm less a fan of idle rumor. I join with the many on this

thread asking for a reliable source for this.

[Codeine]

20. I call shenanigans.

Put up or. . .

[elleng]

22. 'CVS' inc. does stupid things, CVS employees, largely, do the right things.