If you are a remote employee and are laid off, I am assuming you need to return your office equipment - laptop, monitors, etc. However, does anyone know if there is an option to purchase the equipment from CVS? Thanks in advance!
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CVS IT is disorganized with horrible leadership. You could probably send back an old shoe and a banana peel and keep the equipment, they wouldn't know the difference.
However, the monkeys in charge might launch an investigation into what happened to the rest of the banana....
Even if you kept your laptop it would be bricked (especially if it's newer).
Older ones (pre-2023) may be ok.
Last time all they wanted was the electronic devices, ipads, laptops, cell phones . they did not want docking stations or monitors returned
Cover your rear and take pics of what you send back. They'll take it out of your severance. Document everything.
The same company that drove the cutover to computer phone calls over desktop models and just had everyone hang on to them for over a year probably doesn’t have a plan for this either. Save the shipping receipt.
Don’t return them and they will send a collection agency after you.
I think you can assume that there'd be no option to purchase anything. The laptop will no doubt be required to be returned, and it's likely that your severance pay will be withheld until that has been returned.
I suppose it could be a possibility they might not request the monitors and docking stations to be returned - if these 5,000 jobs consist primarily of WFH positions that would be 10,000 monitors going back to IT... they may not want them back. But that's still a big IF.
I know I'd like to keep my docking station. I'd be curious what they'd do if you didn't return it. They might make it all a requirement to get your severance, of course.
They will send you a box to return all your equipment with a pre-paid shipping label via UPS. I think you won't get severance pay until they receive everything back and it's all accounted for.
So just bc someone ask a simple question, means they are “fat that needs to be trimmed”? Are you ok? Good luck out there. Maybe try being compassionate once and awhile? Or just move along if you have nothing nice to say.
Based on reading the comments and questions on this board, I can see why CVS feels a need to trim the fat.
I don't know about the rest, but I do know they won't let you keep your laptop in any way. There's the potential for medically or financially sensitive data on there. They monitor what's printed as well.