If you're working at CVS, I'm pretty sure you're not privileged
Employees at CVS received "woke training," where they were told to understand their privileges, mitigate their biases and hire workers based on diversity, a recording from within CVS Health corporation showed.
"Understanding your privileges and how to leverage them so we can support others is a key component in being an active ally," CVS employees were told during an online call obtained by Fox Business.
I don't require that a company actually like me. I just require them not to hate me because of my skin color. Hopefully Walgreens won't do some grade A idiocy like CVS.
People accusing me of being privilaged piss me off. My parents didn't have a lot. What they passed onto me was a work ethic and to know the value of education. I went to a bog standard comprehensive* school so basic minimal. I've worked my way through life and am now comfortably retired. Everything that I have I've worked for and paid for. Certainly some have had a worse start than I have, some have had a better one, so what? You just have to do your best with the hand that you are dealt. What I've never done is whine that it's not fair like a six year old, if you are still doing that as an adult then maybe you should take a good look at yourself and think about why you are such a loser.
*I don't know what the US equivalent to comprehensive schools are. In the UK we used to have a two tier system. Primary school students would sit an exam called the Eleven Plus. Those who passed would go to a grammar school that concentrated on academic stuff. Those that failed went to a school that concentrated on vocational subjects, useful skills basically. The socialist governments of the 1960s replaced that system with comprehensive schools.
I moved to CVS because Rite-Aid was assho. Then about one year ago, CVS changed out every pharmacist where I get my stuff. The replacements were melanin-rich. That wouldn't be a problem except that they didn't know jack about their customers or apparently even the computer system of that store. Worse was their accents which took a lot to try to understand. Still, I was left wondering if they really understood. A couple of months later they were all gone and most of the original crew were back. It is important to establish a good relationship with the pharmacist. Heck, they know me by my voice over the phone.
Over the years I have tried Rite-Aid, CVS, Walgreens, even Wal-Mart. CVS has been the best but that isn't saying much. The hospital pharmacy is great but extremely expensive. And they are too hurried to spend much time consulting with a customer.
Anonymous Walgreens already did some stupid shit. Fired an armed pharmacist that stopped a robbery. “You can’t has teh gunzz” Won’t shop there, right up the street.
CVS doesn't allow the gunz either. My job before I had to retire was with a construction company that remodeled CVS stores. I carried in the states I could. My boss, who also carries, told me gunz were verboten by employees of and for CVS, but that if an incident occurred where I had to use my pistol, he would back me up.
We use Walgreens mostly due to inertia. They are just the place we have always used. But secondly because my wife is on a lot of opioid medications due to severe chronic pain. There is a nationwide network called Narxcare, that 49 states with the other one is about to join, that uses the magical algorithm to collect and compare data, and give each patient a number, based on many things, among which is how many different pharmacies you visit, and not only does your doctor use it to base how they write your prescriptions, but your pharmacist also uses it to decide if they want to fill your prescription for a narcotic or some other prescriptions as well. If as a medical professional you don't check that Narxcare database, before treating your patient, as a doctor or pharmacist, you can run afoul of the DEA or the state licensing board. In investigating it, I have seen where a number of patients have been cut off their normal pain medications cold turkey, due to getting a second opinion, or to taking their prescription to a different pharmacy due to the first one being out of a certain drug. This is real, and it is BS, for actual pain patients. Yet the government wonders why the number of street drug users continues to climb.
I refused to do business with CVS. My second choice pharmacy is Walgreens. My first choice is a locally owned chain that has 5 stores strategically located around town to serve different neighborhoods. They stock drugs that the others have to order and they beat everyone else on price too.
I don't require that a company actually like me. I just require them not to hate me because of my skin color. Hopefully Walgreens won't do some grade A idiocy like CVS.
ReplyDeletePeople accusing me of being privilaged piss me off. My parents didn't have a lot. What they passed onto me was a work ethic and to know the value of education. I went to a bog standard comprehensive* school so basic minimal. I've worked my way through life and am now comfortably retired. Everything that I have I've worked for and paid for. Certainly some have had a worse start than I have, some have had a better one, so what? You just have to do your best with the hand that you are dealt. What I've never done is whine that it's not fair like a six year old, if you are still doing that as an adult then maybe you should take a good look at yourself and think about why you are such a loser.
ReplyDelete*I don't know what the US equivalent to comprehensive schools are. In the UK we used to have a two tier system. Primary school students would sit an exam called the Eleven Plus. Those who passed would go to a grammar school that concentrated on academic stuff. Those that failed went to a school that concentrated on vocational subjects, useful skills basically. The socialist governments of the 1960s replaced that system with comprehensive schools.
I'd demonstrate my bravery by saying "screw this crap! Don't you have a better use for $600,000,000?"
ReplyDelete"Privilege" my ass.
ReplyDeleteI worked for everything I have. Same as my parents and grandparents.
Woke/commie traitors are ruining this Country.
Fvckem all.
I moved to CVS because Rite-Aid was assho. Then about one year ago, CVS changed out every pharmacist where I get my stuff. The replacements were melanin-rich. That wouldn't be a problem except that they didn't know jack about their customers or apparently even the computer system of that store. Worse was their accents which took a lot to try to understand. Still, I was left wondering if they really understood. A couple of months later they were all gone and most of the original crew were back. It is important to establish a good relationship with the pharmacist. Heck, they know me by my voice over the phone.
ReplyDeleteOver the years I have tried Rite-Aid, CVS, Walgreens, even Wal-Mart. CVS has been the best but that isn't saying much. The hospital pharmacy is great but extremely expensive. And they are too hurried to spend much time consulting with a customer.
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ReplyDeleteWalgreens already did some stupid shit. Fired an armed pharmacist that stopped a robbery. “You can’t has teh gunzz” Won’t shop there, right up the street.
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CVS doesn't allow the gunz either. My job before I had to retire was with a construction company that remodeled CVS stores. I carried in the states I could. My boss, who also carries, told me gunz were verboten by employees of and for CVS, but that if an incident occurred where I had to use my pistol, he would back me up.
DeleteWe use Walgreens mostly due to inertia. They are just the place we have always used. But secondly because my wife is on a lot of opioid medications due to severe chronic pain.
ReplyDeleteThere is a nationwide network called Narxcare, that 49 states with the other one is about to join, that uses the magical algorithm to collect and compare data, and give each patient a number, based on many things, among which is how many different pharmacies you visit, and not only does your doctor use it to base how they write your prescriptions, but your pharmacist also uses it to decide if they want to fill your prescription for a narcotic or some other prescriptions as well.
If as a medical professional you don't check that Narxcare database, before treating your patient, as a doctor or pharmacist, you can run afoul of the DEA or the state licensing board. In investigating it, I have seen where a number of patients have been cut off their normal pain medications cold turkey, due to getting a second opinion, or to taking their prescription to a different pharmacy due to the first one being out of a certain drug. This is real, and it is BS, for actual pain patients. Yet the government wonders why the number of street drug users continues to climb.
I refused to do business with CVS. My second choice pharmacy is Walgreens. My first choice is a locally owned chain that has 5 stores strategically located around town to serve different neighborhoods. They stock drugs that the others have to order and they beat everyone else on price too.
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