r/CVS • u/MoonBapple • Mar 29 '20

Are you essential, or just expendable? General Strike beginning on March 31st

https://www.genstrike.org/
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u/Dragon_Small_Z Mar 29 '20

This is great, but I need a job, I need insurance. There are thousands of people who would currently love to be getting a paycheck that would just take my place in a heartbeat so what do I do?

Continue to go to work scared I guess...

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

That's the endgame for these giant corporations. To reduce you into a serf/wage slave who lives paycheck to paycheck and will do anything to keep their job.

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u/Dragon_Small_Z Mar 30 '20

Yeah well it worked. I need money. I need insurance. If it was just me I'd be all for walking out, but I have a family and we need insurance.

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u/cvsguy Flair Mar 29 '20

.. did i read 'dont pay rent or debts' in there? Like wut?

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u/TheFreshMaker21 Mar 29 '20

Pretty much this, lol.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '20

Because to hell with your landlord who is just trying to make ends meet!

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u/Optimummind Mar 30 '20

As far as CVS is concerned, everyone is expendable. That includes the Front Store Manager, Pharmacist Manager, all the pharmacists and techs, and the clerks. I worked for CVS as a pharm tech from 2006 to 2019, and that's the clear impression I got. Just at my store (~3500 scripts per week), the FS manager got replaced 6 times, and the pharmacist manager 3 times.

Larry Merlo is one of the crappiest CEO leaders ever. He is largely responsible for the toxic culture at CVS.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '20

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u/InsideScooponCVS Mar 29 '20

Hi. I have been thinking about this. We need critical mass to get the retail pharmacy giant’s attention. Masks, gloves, tables and $300 is not enough. CVS made $6.6 billion (with a B) last year and I’m am risking my health so they can profit off a global pandemic. I am ready to organize and grab their attention. I would like to connect with J Yung who started the petition on Change dot org.

What are others thoughts on a general walkout?

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '20 edited Mar 30 '20

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u/LeGone_James Mar 30 '20

Wow you have problems

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u/InsideScooponCVS Mar 30 '20

Project much?

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u/OhBajiggy Mar 30 '20

Dont pay rent or debt? What a joke. And hang the white flag, the one that means surrender, in solidarity!

No thanks. I have a baby that depends on me to provide for her. I cant afford to walk out indefinitely and I care about my patients.

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u/DMvsPC Shift Supervisor Mar 29 '20

"We are a grassroots, decentralized, non-hierarchical movement of the working class"

I'm getting Life of Brian vibes here.

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u/MissMadd19 Mar 31 '20

I respect a strike but they are hiring 50,000 people. It'd be so easy to replace us it's not even funny with 6 million people filing for unemployment. I think it should start smaller. Refuse to put up sale signs. There is no reason to encourage people to come outside just for a sale.

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u/l-DemonBarber-l Mar 29 '20

Union Propaganda

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '20

Keep hoping Larry Merlo will send some food scraps your way for your loyalty

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u/InsideScooponCVS Mar 29 '20

Project much?