CVS is Destroying the Profession of Pharmacy - Part 4

"I am alarmed and disappointed by the conditions that exist in your facilities and for your delivery workers. I am sending along these pictures that show the unsafe conditions."

"We are told we may use 2 masks a week even though the package says single use only. A sheet is provided to document that the counters and keypads have been sanitized hourly. That lasted about a week and now some days it is not done at all because overworked staff with reduced hours do not have time to do it."

"I submitted an ethics line complaint about understaffing and risk of patient safety. They responded 'where is this?' And I said 'everywhere.'"

"This CVS response (to Ellen Gabler's article in the New York Times) is so vague, nonspecific, and full of ignorance that it makes me sick. At the same time, it further fuels the fire within me to expose CVS for the ethics-less sweatshop it is."

"How many more deaths and articles written will it take for management to do the right things?"

"We are nothing but disposable bodies in this company and the sad thing is that there are unemployed pharmacists who will gladly take our spot with a big pay cut."

"I ask my district leader for more help. He responds, 'Nope. Maybe CVS isn't the right place for you if you need more help.'"

"In spite of almost 20 years working for CVS, I still love being a pharmacist. I just hate my job. I am afraid. Afraid so much that I don't have the fortitude to reveal my identity. I am afraid I will NOT find another employer if I am terminated by CVS. I know this because I have tried to find other positions."

"I was written up for not meeting quota on calls and not getting people to refill prescriptions THEY DO NOT NEED."

"I feel that I am committing fraud with the calls I am required to make and filling items that are not wanted."

"I was brutally honest on those surveys. I was unemployed 3 months later. They are NOT anonymous."

"I know 3 pharmacists who responded to the CVS surveys honestly and all of a sudden their scores went down and they were reassigned to other stores or floating duties."

"The survey is described as anonymous but when you work in a rural pharmacy and there's only you and your manager, you better bite your tongue."

"I know of a pharmacist experiencing anxiety who went into very early labor after the pharmacy supervisor threatened her job if all prescriptions are not finished at night."

"I am a tech and my #1 goal/job is to protect and support my pharmacist. My store has some of the best techs I have ever worked with, and we simply cannot keep up. We are always understaffed and always scrambling, and the pharmacists jump in to help the techs. Then we get patients yelling at us and corporate's response to us is to reprimand us."

"In my job as a tech the stress sent me into emotional overdrive. Eventually I landed in a psychiatric unit for 5 days due to the stress of not only my job but also not making enough money in spite of asking for raises."

"In my estimation, EVERYTHING changed the day when the former CEO retired."

Daniel A. Hussar
danandsue3@verizon.net