Thread regarding CVS layoffs

Getting rid of your most experienced people is always a bad idea

I know of several long time employees, and these ones are seasoned, experienced, and know their way around the store. Getting rid of your most experienced people, the ones who know your business the best, is always a bad idea. Why? Because who do you replace them with? Remember, it’s hard to replace experience. So if you replace experienced people with people who know little about your business, just because they make minimum wage, you business is doomed to fail. Do you want a store filled with minimum wage teenagers, or 20, 30, & 40 year veterans who know CVS!

Well said @YgYTLNO-jmw .

by Anonymous
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Eh. Within a month I could train a monkey to run this store. CVS knows this. That's why managers make about the money as a tech. Managers are useless, they all sit in the office and talk on the phone with each other all day then b--ch about not having time to do anything. CVS would be wise to just do away with overpaid managers and pay the shifts more, they are the ones who really run the stores.

by Mike
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At Cvs you are a slave to the job! If you are still employed you are probably a person with low self esteem and not good enough to work anywhere else and given a title through battlefield promotion! Other word for it is your all that is left to choose from!

by Anonymous
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In our store, we have several long time cvs people, and they all work hard. And yes every store has one or two people that know how to milk the clock, are the bosses pet, work the system, etc., etc. However, in our store if we lost some of those long timers, then we'd be in trouble. My best guess considering the current climate, is 20 years will be the standard by which cvs judges who stays and who gets let go. Over 20 I think your in danger, and under 20 your safe. Right at or just before 20, like 18, 19, then it'll be a close call.

by Anonymous
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Respectfully disagree. My most experienced people do the least. In FS at least.

by Anonymous
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I've been here about 3 years as a store manager...its the worst run company I've ever worked for by far...no communication at all and that's hard to do in 2019!!warehouse delivery dates and times are just a suggestion and boh updates when it feels like it...please close my store and give me a severance!!!put me out of my misery

by Anonymous
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We did the same thing with a lot of good field managers 2 years ago. Get rid of the memories to force compliance to the new standard.

by Oldtimer
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Does anyone really know CVS anymore? I mean we knew CVS before but this new CVS is not what we were built on. Our foundation has changed. GOT Heart...gone, who is your who....gone, colleague engagement....gone. We are not what we used to be just 2 years ago, so what kind of experience do we have to give other than how we used to run the business. Our experiance is what will produce the push back so the answer is get rid of the experiance.

by Anonymous
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