Pros
Insurance and Rx coverage is amazing. I enjoy that variety of tasks to do & not being stuck behind a desk for 8 hours a day.
Kontras
Where do I start? Store manager expects cashiers to do tasks that only shift supervisors (and up) are supposed to do (ie. freshness/out of date report, ordering, cycle counts). I left CVS in 2004 (for an office job). I made $10/hr at the time at CVS. The company I went to work for was sold and I lost my job...went to work for Riteaid (3 weeks later). HR told me I'd be making $11-$13/hr on the lower end of the management scale (I made around $20/hr with my salary plus commission at the prior office job). NOPE, the store manager said that most he could start me out was $9.75. 3 years later, I make around $10.15/hr. My raise doesn't even cover the yearly increase of health insurance. Our manager was suspended for a week for sexual harassment, cussing at employees, calling people fat & stupid & creating a hostile work environment. The company hired a lawyer and she met with most of the employees. It was SUPPOSED to be confidential. Well, he let it be known that he knew everything that was said and who said what. It's disturbing that the lower level employees (cashiers and shift supervisors) were betrayed by a dept that is supposed to protect us. Our store is smack dab in a drug infested area and our asset protection representative hasn't been there in over a month. Breaks: We are required to take a 30 minutes lunch break when we work 6 hours or more. The non-smokers sometimes will take short breaks sitting in the office for a few minutes....however, if you smoke, you can't go out for 5 minutes for a quick smoke. What's the difference between sitting in the office on the phone for 10 minutes or more on a non work related matter and someone taking a 5 minute smoke break? It's falls under the guidelines of discrimination if you ask me. I've had to leave a certain time (that I was scheduled to get off) before & my relief (the store manager) was over 30 minutes late and didn't even give me the courtesy to let me know he was going to be late. YET HE WRITES PEOPLE UP FOR BEING LATE. Very hypocritical.