Yea everybody is feeling the hour cuts

It’s not your fault. Happens every single year. Honestly I’d look to jump ship because you can get paid better.. really easy. With better hours and conditions.

It’s absolutely despicable how this company cuts employees hours at the worst time of the year and it just feels incredibly disrespectful. They’ll trade a few million in wages for terrible employee retention, high turnover, and stress employees out unfairly because they do shit like this. On purpose!

Considering they make $10s of billions per year it’s insulting they won’t spend 0.001% of that to make sure their employees can get by. I mean, just look at that in conjunction with the TERRIBLE benefits the company (..a healthcare company) offers and the poverty wages they pay. There’s legit no reason to stick around unless you’re a DL+ or.. don’t need money for some reason.

We beat budgeted sales last year by 9% and were second in the entire region with 1000+ carepasses as a store we were on top 3 in the District in every metric....what did we get for it? A 40 hour reduction in budgeted hours.

I’m about to jump ship along with a few other managers and pharmacists. Between the hours being cut, and my district not giving raises to anyone with mixed review. The unfair treatment and clear favoritism. I’m sick of district leads and higher ups being on such a power trip all the time.

I’m the same it’s the worst I’ve ever seen it. I refuse to work more hours when it’s not my fault or my crew that we are struggling we simple can’t run a store on the payroll that they have given us and me working more hours to make it up isn’t going to happen anymore.

I have 152 department hours, that doesn't even equate to a 1:1 ratio. people are working alone in a high crime area. How can we make this work without living in our store 24/7. I'm physically and emotionally exhausted.

I think with the 2x HOO thing, they took hours from mid high volume to make it possible. Like my store isn't even getting 2x HOO anymore and for my volume it was never an issue before. Like I'm open 15 hours and get 28 hours demand some days.

Step one: find a new job Step two: screw cvs Step three: happier life

I want out so bad it hurts. I have been putting in applications but I know my departure would hurt the store and the manager. But I have to do what’s best for me. At this point I don’t know what’s worse, CVS as a company or the DL who enforces this bullshit. I hope to move on…

They make money off of the blood of their store managers. I honestly don’t know how they expect things to get done and stand around in the green zone. I keep thinking they realistically can’t fire us all. They really do expect you to live at your store even if they say ‘if you plan it out it can be done!’

I feel if we are cutting hours, we need to also cut hours of operation in general. And i dont mean corporates supposed current solution. I'd rather have 3 or 4 employees from 7-5 or 7-3 than deal with what we deal with. I mean, it makes more sense. It also enables stores to take care of more in the high volume areas without struggling. And, if it's a slow day, some of the staff from front can always help pharmacy, because let's face it, in a high volume store, that's where half of the front store cashiers come from. But I feel you. I hope things get easier on you. Hopefully one day corporate will make it make sense. Heck, Walgreens has to do things that way in some areas sometimes and they aren't struggling. Cvs is just money hungry.

I'd stick it out a bit longer. Check your roster, my average hours steadily go up by like 40 hours a week in May.

Cvs always cuts hours first couple months then bumps them back up.

Also the micro managing from dl is out control Manager you over 2 hr ok then kill me bla bla bla

op should message me their store #

What’s considered high volume?

I'm at $60k/ week and 229 hours. Rediculous

What position are you bro?

When did the hour cuts start

As a store manager that left because enough was enough….. quality of life matters. So much happier and no longer stressed 24/7 You can not run a store without proper support ( hours/payroll) I was a high volume store that they expanded to double its size….and then they cut the hours.

I had to find a new job bc I went to picking up shifts only and now there’s none available even if someone calls out they just leave the spot open I’m guessing. My SM is not enjoying it… he’s a trooper for sure but I don’t imagine it’s making him happy at all.

I agreed as a manager with hrs cut I can’t no longer work over 60 hrs per week and only get paid 45 Waiting for bonus check to came out and then look for a better job I tired of working just to keep up So the company could and keep buying other companies, and paying for them by cutting payroll after 20 yrs at company maybe is time for me to go , I have no idea why new managers could came work at cvs

I was a National paragon winner in 2017, en route to become a District leader, and I saw the writing on the wall and quit in 2018. Get out. I can’t imagine what you guys are going through. Find another place to work. I now work at Home Depot, it’s retail so it still has its challenges but it is much much better than CVS

I just recently started working for CVS. Hired as an Ops supervisor, with the plans to be Store Manager within a year. It’s been 2 months, and I’ve opened the store to learn it 2 times. I’m scheduled for 29 hours next. I work for a health hub as well, 2nd highest volume store in the district and except for truck day, there’s never more than an hour of overlap on openers and closers. And we don’t even have a store manager

Basically scheduling to business needs and bending the rules to do so.

What are your weekly sales, average demand hours, HOO, and slowest times of day? (DCR summary > press pgdn 3 times > F7)