I have a stupid job

[Solid Snake]

I am an employee at an inner-city CVS. Basically I just sit behind a register and take crap from old senile ladies, crackheads, whores and others. I am subjected to about every contagious disease out there. Customers force ME to clip their coupons for them and I told a customer NO. He called my manager and the manager did it. The manager is a nice guy and he knows I don't have time to clip their coupons for them so he didn't make a big deal out of it. Out of all the CVS stores in the tri-state area, ours rates #4 (i think) for the highest incidence of shoplifting. We lose almost $200,000 a year due to shoplifting. It is a rough job and I've had my share of chases, confronations and 911 calls. Now my manager (a different guy) tells me that my cash register totalled $10.22 higher than it should have so he puts me on probation. That means that if my cash drawer is +/- $2.00 within te next five weeks, I get "terminated". The reason I hate this store is because they might value their customers, but they treat their employees like sh!t. I work for hours, dealing with thousands of dollars a day, I take crap from everybody, I've smelled the worst body odors imaginable, and they're threatening to fire me, an employee of almost a year, for +/- $2.00. That really tells me what I'm worth to them... two bucks. As far as the company goes, CVS can go to hell.

[TheBurningCat]

I'm sorry to hear about your job. Is the pay any good?

[thekingofpain]

Check out a fortune 500 company for employment, like---McDonalds?--- sounds like it may be a step up from CVS...

Plus you have experience w/a register, a bonus and the counters between you and "us" stinky customers might be alittle wider...
:-)

[Solid Snake]

After nine months of work, they bumped my wage from $5.75 to $5.92 because they HAD to.

And also "stinky" is one thing, an airborne stench from hell is different. For example, this one old lady had a tube coming out of her pants connected to a transparent (ewww) bag holding her urine. Well she dropped it on the floor in front of the register and it exploded all over the carpet. I'm telling you, you haven't seen anything if you think that's bad.

[CERuppel]

Get out of there. I've been there and done that, and that advice was the best thing I ever got out of the job.

Might sound backward, but try the factories in your area. Many have good wages and benefits. Including TAP (Tuition Assistance Programs). Using mine during this up coming lay off to go to college free!

As for the job, sounds like your managers got thier priorities out of a box of cracker jacks. And you can quote me to them. Please.

Yes, I hate dumb managers...

[skuz]

Sorry to be a little off topic, but what's a CVS ?

Hmmmm. Retail is just about the worst job ever. I managed a music store (Music 4 Less) for nine months. Luckily the management is actually good the employees there. Dealing with customers on a daily basis is a drag though. Now I gots a desk job and better benefits and vacation and I'll never go back to retail. I would go down to the local foundry before I work with Joe Consumer again! :P

But ya, I second CERupple. Get out of there. Any company that treats it's employees badly isn't worth devoting time or effort to, IMO.

Where are ya in PA anyway, the store I managed was in Lancaster.

-Whir

[MegalosSkylaki]

I think all these 'chain stores' are F*U*

Well almost all.

Starsbucks opens up stores next to hard-working small businesspersons with decent cozy coffee houses and then puts them out of business because there isn't enough business to support two coffee shops and Starbucks has deeper pockets and is willing apparently to pay unduly high rents just to end any competition.

Ten % of the gross is 50% of the profits.

This is true IMO for other chain stores but the absolute worst are the mergers of book chains into B & N, and Borders.

One day there will be one book chain and one publishing house and you won't even be able to read about the First Amendment.
Unless the two chains--books and publishing-- allow it.

Putting small business persons out of business is bad enough but when it comes to reading & writing, it poses danger to our Liberty.

Any smart business manager (owner or not) knows that happpy workers show it to the customers; unhappy ones, to the customers also. These chains have disposable customers, the way they act to their workers.

I saw what Duane Reade did to a smaller pharmacy it took over when it would not allow the pharmacists to talk directly to the patients. So I left. And suggested to the pharmacists they do the same. But to where? CVS?

DOOOG

DOOOG

[spuck]

well u could be like me.$6.15 an hour flipping through wood like a deck of cards.

[Warthog]

Wow.......minimum wage in Vermont is about $6.25......

Yeah it is: http://www.dol.gov/dol/esa/public/minwage/america.htm

Seeing you have a CVS in your area, you have got to have oogles of OTHER retail jobs around. IMO, retail is the easiest place to find a job. Around here, even in New Hampshire, McDonalds pays $7-8/hour. Dish washing at restaurants starts @ $7/hour....

Warthog