A Machine - ARNP CVS Health Employee Review

1.0
May 28, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent compensation and benefits package

Cons

Employment with MC is the epitome of a corporate America job. Scheduling requires you to work every other weekend and take additional weekend on call days. Employee concerns are met with indifference or even retribution from managers. On the corporate and regional level, significant rule changes regarding scheduling requirements and PTO requests change almost monthly and typically without warning or regard for how this affects employee needs such as procuring childcare or quality of life. Recently, a "clinic care team" model was adapted for each clinic. This requires 2 employees to cover the 7 days a week each clinic is open without utilizing any floats. If your partner takes time off, you're working it for them! Additionally, you must do this without going into overtime, which makes anyone taking more than a couple days off in a single week impossible. What's more is that if you're the vacationer, upon your return, you have to pick up enough of your partner's hours to prevent the going into overtime. By the time you've covered this, if you were to log your on PTO, you yourself would be in overtime, so you can't. Effectively, this model prevent you from taking all but rare days of true PTO.

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Cons

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5.0
Dec 13, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I learned a lot working there as far as how to run a business as well as how to develop a team. I had one of the most successful teams in the company ranking as the top store year over year in two separate markets, one in the Northeast one in the Southeast. I was a paragon winner with the company as well. My most recent DM was very supportive. I genuinely thank them for the opportunity and the knowledge that I acquired while working with them.

Cons

Work hours were excessive. To be successful hours worked were borderline slavery. While I willingly worked them to be successful, the week you didn't you were immediately behind. Vacations were almost non existent due to constant visitors from corporate stopping in to do reviews. Holiday weeks were paid 4 days regular 1 holiday and you worked all 5. The facade of the stores looking great when these people stop by versus the reality of the business is polarizing. There were always teams of people and excessive expenditures of payroll thrown into stores prior to their visits. While I understood the need to make an appearance, it was always will always be a backwards way off thinking. Company preaches quality of life for their clients while quality of life for their employees is non-existent. As a "manager" in your average store you will be "managing" a total of one person during your shift, with a total of 10 people at location. Location open hours will exceed total payroll hours ie Sun-Sat 7am-10pm = 15hrs per day x 7 days x 2 people = 210 hrs which excludes the need to have a person unload deliveries that come in during non opened hours. Your budgeted hours will be approximately 208 hrs. I will only mention that during the month of December that there are extended hours for the stores but no budgeted hours to accommodate. Stores are held to strict shrink targets with little to no control over external theft. Remember 2 people at location, if four people enter to steal there is nothing you can do to stop them. These are facts not personal prejudices.

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