I'm so tired of it all.
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I feel like everyone around me is quiet quitting.
This is no joke. I've never had any MH issues, and I've always had a high tolerance for stress. I'm not joking when I say this place caused me to have panic attacks and become depressed. I've never experienced anything like that, it was horrible. I left last year, and the panic attacks stopped.
@dh OMG! We must be working in the same area.... LOL!!! You described my co-workers to a T...!!! I would add that MOST of them are backstabbers now that the rifs are taking out more employees more often....
Ridiculous seeing the various trolls on here making political comments trying to blame this on Trump- news flash- ELV started their RTO strategy over a year prior to the last presidential election- as such, this RTO strategy started during the Biden administration as a backlash against him shutting down the economy during the COVID pandemic. Take your political trolling elsewhere.
I know several that have literally had to go on LTD due to stress
A little known event happening in DC - some government offices are making thousands of employees come back to office 5 days a week in buildings with parking lots that accommodate only half of the number of employees. The solution? A rat race to get there early enough to snag a spot, and if you don't get one, you take the day off unpaid, you drive around later in the afternoon frantically looking for a space and work your 8 hours (putting you into wee hours of the morning before finishing your shift), or park 2 or so miles away and walk/uber to the building.
Sharing this to give some perspective about the situation we have + to remind so many that are surprised about the cruelty of ELV's RTO that half the country voted for a cruel situation that the Corporations are feeling more empowered to get behind.
Uhm sorry, coworkers are not your family. Some are backstabbing cu-ts. Some are bully machines who are trying to feel important for working in a certain department for 12 plus years and think they own the place. Some purposefully try not to train new coworkers because they feel threatened or in a coworker is starting out at a pay grade and are angry at newcomer because boss hasn’t promoted them yet.
Working at Elevance can make you unhinged 🤣
Yeah poster was do upset they had to get personal and totally insult the person who disagreed with them. Clearly unhinged.
No actually I don’t give two sh--s about anthem. That’s the point. It’s just a fu--ing job to pay my bills. You think I love anthem, I don’t I’m biding my time until I find something better. Or get riffed again I was riffed once already and hired back. I was read the same stupid script you were. You’re the troll expecting everyone to feel sorry for your mental health issues and get sympathy.
Ok you really are just a stupid person. Not even worth the time to reply to such a bottom feeding troll. Seems you’re the one upset. Upset that anyone could dare not love this place. You clearly DO feel special , one of the lucky ones who happened to fall into one of the pockets of normalcy (or maybe you are just super good at kissing a@@. You are responding as one who feels personally insulted that people don’t love your anthem. Why else tout such dribble as people should be happy being treated like s$&/@. Pretty sure you are not treated like s$&@ or your pa-ties wouldn’t be in a bunch over someone taking issue with your beloved anthem. Now go spew your ignorance elsewhere .
Why didn’t you leave when morality went downhill.? Quit buying into having to love your job or a job had to have meaning. A job is a job is a job. That is what the thought leaders want you to think so they can extract more of your soul. Stop buying into the bullsh-t. The top 1% is filling you with this cr-p to keep you compliant. Look how upset you are.
Everybody gets read the same script. Why should your script be different because you did 30years
To @ cx+1jtkmmt8f Expecting common decency and respect from your employer is NOT thinking you’re special. Yes you need more than a job to make you happy (duh we all know this) I am not asking for happiness from my job but I certainly shouldn’t have to endure corporate terrorism and straight up ignorance. Glad you’re happy being number, I could be too if they’d just let me do my job and stop making that impossible with the constant RIF du jour and RTO nonsense. Not to mention the discomfort of helping power a souless machine that is committing ethical and moral crimes against humanity.
I don't think I am more special than anyone regardless of the number of years. The point is 30 years ago I didn't feel like just a number and why would I want to. I dedicated half my life to this place and read a script and goodbye. Work is a big part of everyone's life and co workers are like family.
People are too busy thinking they are special. Once you realize you are just a number, it gets easier to think of your job as just a job. Why do people think because they were with the company 30 years they are immune from being treated like sh-t. We’re all being treated like sh-t. Learn to be happy outside if work, don’t make work your life, and quit giving this place more than it deserves. That will help will mental health.
Anyone who's not psychotic and/or oblivious is drained. This place is a cesspool and NOT a normal working environment.
30 year guy:
Been there, done that. Get some professional help and/or talk it out with a supportive friend. Get your head in the right place and make an effort to squeeze some joy out of each day. Sounds corny, but it’ll eat at you unless you actively work against it.
Yes this place has done a number on my Mental Health. Last year after 30 years I was rifd. It was the most horrible experience. Thrown out like trash. My manager read me a script and that was it. I did land another position a week before my last day. Ever since I wake up with anxiety waiting for it to happen again. It has ruined enjoying my family life. Everytime my spouse says let's go out to eat do this or that I constantly say I don't want to waste money I may not have a job. I used to love it here now it just causes emotional stress even though I do love my actual job.
I think the CVS person does not have all of the facts.
Here is what we are up against:
- Talented employees quitting
- Pay is not keeping up with the rate of inflation
- Talented employees being let go
- We're being expected to constantly do more with less
- Clients are not happy with us, and the ranks are getting tense as a result
- Getting little things done is a gargantuan effort
- Insubordinate, untrained, and incompetent contractors are in the mix. There are a few good ones, but not many.
The RTO is just another stressor we do not need. If the company increased our compensation to deal with the downsides it probably wouldn't be that big of a deal. If they didn't have these ridiculous half cubicles either, the problems of being in a noisy office wouldn't really be an issue.
Some of us are looking for work, and more than a few of us are seeing mental health counselors because of all of the damage this job has done to us.
I hope for your sake that you're not dealing with all of those problems at CVS.
CVS is a provocation troll.
Blink twice and hand me a long receipt if you're human.
We all gather to this website to know what's coming up because leadership won't tell us. This website stresses me out but I am glad it is here.
Hey CVS person - if you actually read more than just the RTO threads - you would see that RIFs have been occurring biweekly for almost a year? I would say (at least) 15% of the workforce has been dissolved. That’s a reason to be exhausted.
Just quit already. Or get some mental health support. I’m at CVS and came over to see about other jobs and the whining on this board is unbelievable
Come work at cvs as we have had to be in the office for the past two years and not just three days. You have it easy I’ll trade
So, Over. It. People are taking LOA’s because of work stress.
We all are. Leadership doesn’t know how to communicate and when they do communicate, it’s in puzzles. We have no idea who’s leaving the company anymore. We have no idea what departments are around. We just have to do things and comply or we get fired. This used to be an amazing place to work. It used to be a place with had flexible work options. It used to be a place where leadership knew how to communicate. And now…. We have this.
This used to be an amazing place to work. When people ask me if it’s a good place to apply, I asked them do they like anxiety.