Welp, it appears we are “officially” in another hiring freeze. The documentation sent to people leaders earlier this week strongly insinuated one was along the way, but I got an email from my VP late last night that I can’t fill my two open FT positions this year and to close the reqs. I’m supposed to “think strategically” on how we can create efficiencies, reallocate workload, and which workstreams we can pause or eliminate. I’m probably being overly dramatic, but my team exists to make sure our patients and clients literally don’t die as the result of an employee error, and my team was already cut by 20% last year.
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Yes, this freeze affects internal open positions and/or promotions. Recently interviewed for a posted req and a couple weeks later find out they opted not to hire anyone due to “hiring pause.” Very sad. Basically no opportunities to move up and advance your career at CVS right now, at least in my part of the organization. Doesn’t matter how long you’ve been with the company or how hard you work. Oh well. Guess we should all just be happy to have a job…
“My manager left, his intern and 1 other report got dumped on me to oversee (as well as my managers work load). I’m coded as an individual contributor and getting tired of feeling like I’m being taken advantage since I found out old bosses job isn’t never went up on workday.”
Oh gosh — that sounds like a complete nightmare. I can’t even fathom how overwhelmed and stressed you are, with all of that extra work. If I were in your shoes, I probably would have lost my mind. I’m sorry :-(
Brain Drain is the whole idea so can boot everyone. Redundant the Americans are redundant.
The is a whole company freeze. They have picked the Departments they are eliminating, off shoringing and Tenured people are going first yes it is Ageist. They want everyone they can gone from the Pandemic back. So buckle up people they are gonna tell you you never did your job right and now the new people only know how you are supposed to work...an outside group who is a hit squad. Jobs are going offshore, Service Ops, Billing, Nurses, you name it they are going.
No offense I know I’m being taken advantage of - my therapist always said it’s better to say “I feel like” vs “you are doing”
I know them MO but was going to use it as leverage. If they can’t hire a new person and I leave all that sh-t work will roll up so I’m hoping to use it to my advantage if I can.
@1wll+1sVe90xA It's obvious that you're being taken advantage of. No offense intended, but you doing the bosses work, WITHOUT their salary and title, is exactly how CVS gets away with this kind of cr-p.
@ 1wll+1sVe90xA from what I understand promos are frozen as well unless deemed critical. Company is going to have a serious brain drain problem all while the bozos that got us here sit comfortably in their executive suite (or more likely their home because the rto doesn’t apply to them)
Stupid question would a hiring freeze halt promotions as well?
My manager left, his intern and 1 other report got dumped on me to oversee (as well as my managers work load). I’m coded as an individual contributor and getting tired of feeling like I’m being taken advantage since I found out old bosses job isn’t never went up on workday.
Agreed, don’t know if it’s all VP’s but there is definitely an entire layer of people in the hierarchy making well into 6 figures that seem to exist solely to echo findings from PowerPoints their staff put together weeks/months earlier.
How about instead of a hiring freeze, we just get rid of that VP. Problem solved. Vice presidents at CVS don't bring any value to the table anyway, and your post just proved it. A vice president is just a fancy title with a big salary that actually does very little work. Meanwhile you're the one whose expected to "Think Strategically" and "figure it out", while they just collect a fat bonus off of your hard work. CVS is incredibly top heavy, while the bottom is stretched as thin as possible. Hiring freeze should mean firing do-nothing executives.