Ok has anyone else been going through being overworked by their store manager. my store manager looks and acts like he is next. He looks like he is in panic mode. getting on employees for things he never asked them to do. He better not ask me to get him a coffee, I will drop a laxative in it so he can sit down. All these managers look on edge and are acting crazy or some just do not care. You can see it in all their faces.
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You are so right. My store manager is always in a panic mode despite our store being the top performing store in the district and having great employees. He's always panicking saying they might give him the boot.
I wasn’t talking about money. I was simply referring to the idea that not everyone is cut out to be a store manager. However that shouldn’t disqualify someone from becoming an ASM simply because they aren’t cut out for the top spot. Some people excel in the #2 role, but #1 is too much for them. And it’s not people limiting themselves, it’s people knowing their limits and that’s a good thing. I respectfully disagree with your opinion. Although I completely see and understand your point. By your logic though, than nobody should ever move beyond shift unless they plan to become a SM. If that’s the case, then their really is no point for ops supervisor and ops manager positions, unless it’s just a stepping stone. However, I still think a good asm is worth the money even if they don’t go higher up.
This is exactly what is wrong with some people . We want to blame the company for “ limiting good people” . The company isn’t limiting them, they limit themselves.
Cashiers have a limit to how much they can make. If they want more money they have to contribute more and move up.
The same applies here. If you want to make more money, you have to be someone who can do more, otherwise there is no reason to pay you to be an assistant with the same duties as a shift.
Lesson over.
To add one additional point, I know someone who excelled as the #2 person in our store, but couldn’t handle being #1, and had to step down. So their are people who are great asm’s but not so great store managers. So for me, a great asm is definitely worth the money!
I see your point, except that you then limit good people simply because they don’t want to go up to store manager. There is no shame in just being a #2 person. Every store needs a good 2nd in command! Besides not everyone is cut out to be a #1 person. And to answer your question about why pay asm $ to someone who won’t go any further? IF the individual in question is good enough, then it’s money well spent as their an asset to both your store and the company!
Any good company would want to develop talent from within. An assistant should be able to do the store managers job until a store is available for them. If not your just really talking about a key holder. Why pay an assistant all that money who does the same work as a supervisor?
Not unhappy, just making a point that just because an individual became an assistant manager, in no means that they should be forced to go up to store manager. What’s wrong with just staying an assistant manger? You made it sound like unless you go up to store manager, just simply staying on as an ASM is a waste of a position.
I am sure that YOU can’t be happy , but it is possible to be happy, just not many happy people here.
It is always possible to surround yourself with negative people who think like you, like this website. Doesn’t mean you are in the majority.
To the previous poster, did the thought ever occur to you that maybe people just didn’t want to go up to store manager? Maybe people were happy and content just being an assistant manager? And you make it sound like that’s a bad thing. “You can’t be happy at cvs, your happiness depends only on what corporate wants!” Their is NO shame in getting to assistant manager but not wanting to go further, just because corporate wants store managers. It’s like souring on store managers, because they don’t want to go up to DL. In our store, our assistant manager didn’t want to go to SM, so they went down to ops supervisor. To me it sure felt like they got punished and demoted simply because they had no desire to go to SM. And IF dl’s weren’t pushing ASM’s to Sm, I say good. IF someone wants a promotion they will reach out for it. And did district leaders ever sit down with asm’s to see what they wanted to do? Or is it just typical cvs, your a store manager now, I don’t care if you don’t like it, deal with it!
When they changed from Assistant to SMIT, not operations manager, it was because many DLs put people into the assistant position and never had an expectation that that person would become a manager .
Many assistants didn’t want to be manager, the discussions were not pushing more people to me a manager , just that you cannot tie up the assistant position or SMIT position unless you intend to be a manager.
In fact we needed less sMITS because ALL of the, will become a manager instead of assistants tying up jobs with no intention of taking a store.
Back when they eliminated the assistant store manager position in favor of operations manager, they said at the meeting we had that there would be a push for more people to become store managers. Our ASM chose to go down to ops supervisor because they didn’t want to go to SM. So yes there IS a great need for store managers at cvs! And it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why store managers are in such high demand! Ironically they did also say that if you became a smit, there was no guarantee you’d get your own store, but they did talk of the great need for SM’s.
Like an hourly person has perspective on “all of these managers” another BS post
Yawn
No actually this is what crazy pressure from corporate does to people! There’s being a store manager and then there’s being a CVS store manager. Trust me when I tell you, what CVS expects out of store managers these days is nothing short of slave labor! This is why there’s a shortage of store managers because of the crazy unrealistic expectations and unrelenting pressure people either quit, step down, or just plain don’t go up to that level! Don’t understand why anyone would want to go up to SM at cvs. Unless they like a challenge, because at cvs being a SM is a challenge!
Be a tattle tale and call Advise and console....loser...How about get an education, find a real job that doesn't pay minimum wage or a tiny bit above it.
Your SM is being a manager, if you don't like it go in the corner and cry.
Be a tattle tale and call Advise and console....loser...How about get an education, find a real job that doesn't pay minimum wage or a tiny bit above it.
Your SM is being a manager, if you don't like it go in the corner and cry.
Ask "Advise and Council"
Sums it up lol